Antipodes of the Mind - Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

Zusatztext Shanon's authorial persona is earnest, serious, straightforward, absolutely trustworthy. Antipodes is suffused with a sense of genuine adventure. Klappentext This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca, and travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of non-ordinary states of consciousness in general. Zusammenfassung Presents a cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. This work provides a charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective, with some philosophical reflections. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Preliminaries: The Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience; Theoretical issues: Epilogue Appendix (Quantitative Data) Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Benny Shanon, Benny (Professor Shanon, Shanon Benny
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780199252923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925292-3
• No. of pages: 488
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, MEDICAL / Neurology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, biochemistry, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Social and cultural anthropology, Botany & plant sciences, Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Botany and plant sciences, Amazon River, Amazon river and tributaries, Toxicology (non-medical), MEDICAL / Otolaryngology