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. 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.

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 > Medicine > Clinical medicine; 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