The New Psychedelic Revolution - The Genesis of the Visionary Age

A bold exploration of modern psychedelic culture, its history, and future

• Examines 3 modern psy-culture architects: chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey

• Presents a "History of Visionary Art," from its roots in prehistory, to Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of the Fantastic, to contemporary psychedelic art

After the deaths of Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey, it appeared that the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s had finally been suppressed. But the opposite was occurring, evident in the popularity of transformational festivals like Burning Man and BOOM!, the media coverage of ayahuasca use, and the growing number of celebrities and Silicon Valley billionaires readily admitting the benefits of microdosing. Along with the return of university research, the revival of psychedelic philosophy, and the increasing popularity of Visionary Art, these changes signify a widespread psychedelic cultural revolution.

Speaking from the forefront of this new revolution, James Oroc explores 21st-century psychedelic culture through three of its main post-1960s architects: chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey. Examining their work in depth, he also explores the work of DMT researcher Rick Strassman, MAPS founder Rick Doblin, consciousness researcher Stanislav Grof, author Daniel Pinchbeck, and new visionary artists such as Amanda Sage and Android Jones. He investigates the use of microdosing in extreme sports and the transformed understanding of spirituality that arises from the psy-trance festival experience. He presents a "History of Visionary Art" from its roots in prehistory and antiquity, to Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of the Fantastic, to contemporary psychedelic art and its importance to visionary culture.

The author explains how psychedelics are powerful tools to examine the Ego and the Shadow and induce transpersonal experiences. Building on anthropological evidence for the role of plant-entheogens in the development of human culture, he proposes that our ongoing psychedelic revolution is seeding the beginnings of a new Visionary Age.

List of contents

PART ONE
The Second Psychedelic Revolution

1 The End of Acid?

2 Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics

3 Terence McKenna: The Rise of the Plant Shaman

4 Alex Grey: The Mystic-Artist

5 A Short Psychedelic History of the World

6 A New Earth? The Dawn of the Visionary Age

PART TWO
What Can Entheogens Teach Us?
Psychedelic Culture in the Twenty-first Century

7 Where Is God in the Entheogenic Movement?

8 5-MeO-DMT: Visions of a Quantum God

9 The Future of Psychedelics

10 Psychedelics and Extreme Sports

11 What Can Entheogens Teach Us? Introducing the Oroc Entheogen Scale

12 Living in Dangerous Times

PART THREE
Dreaming of the Light
A Brief History of Visionary Art and Culture Introduction: What is Visionary Art?

13 Primitive and Ancient Visionary Art

14 Visionary Art in Medieval Christianity and the Renaissance

15 The Genesis of Visionary Art: William Blake and the Romantics

16 Studies in Light: Impressionism, Van Gogh, and the Birth of Modern Art

17 Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, and the Roots of Modern Psychedelic Culture

18 Post–World War II: Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

19 Psychiatry’s Darling: The (Brief) Science of Psychedelics and Creativity

20 The First Psychedelic Revolution: Art in the 1960s and 1970s

21 Modern Art in the 1960s: Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol

22 The Architects of Contemporary Visionary Art: Robert Venosa and Alex Grey

23 The Collectors: Mark McCloud and Jacaeber Kastor

24 New Psychedelic Tribes: BOOM! and Burning Man

25 Performance Art and Psychedelic Culture

26 The Birth of Transformational Festivals and Visionary Culture

27 The InterDimensional Art Show and the Tribe 13 Collective

28 The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

29 New Perspectives: MOKSHA, Alchemeyez, and The Temple of Visions

30 A FractalNation

31 Beyond 2012: Creating the Visionary Age

32 Akshardham: The Visionary Wonder of the World

33 Dreaming of the Light: The Promise of Visionary Art and Culture

34 The Furtherrr Collective and Other Important Contemporary Visionary Artists

PART FOUR
Accidental Ingestions, Amazonian Overdoses, and Other Reports from the Front Lines

35 A Pilgrimage to the Dance Temple: My Journey to BOOM!

36 An Accidental Visionary Experience

37 The Psy-Fi Chronicles: A Harsh Encounter with Rapé

38 A Death on the Playa Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

About the author

James Oroc, the author of Tryptamine Palace, is an accomplished extreme-sports journalist, photographer, and contributor to the MAPS Journal and Reality Sandwich. He travels the world speaking at entheogenic conferences and transformational festivals. When not traveling, he lives in both the Dominican Republic and New Orleans.

Summary

A bold exploration of modern psychedelic culture, its history, and future

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"The New Psychedelic Revolution is the most comprehensive book covering emerging psychedelic culture, from the interaction entheogens, to visionary art and psychedelic culture. It’s definitely worth the read, and I can assure that you’ll gain insights are hard to find elsewhere without direct experience!"

Product details

• Authors: James Oroc
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2018
• EAN: 9781620556627
• ISBN: 978-1-62055-662-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Art