Tripping

An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

Charles Hayes, Charles Hayes

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English

Arkana
01 November 2000

Literary essays; Drug-induced states

Series: Compass

""Provides the much needed 'coming out of the closet' that the psychedelic movement has lacked. These stories will captivate, inspire, caution, and educate. This courageous book exceeds expectations."" -Rich Doblin, President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

A collection of transformational psychedelic experiences, and a guidebook for how to understand them

Flash back to a generation ago, when the world of psychedelics still coasted in the gritty, adventurous, do-it-yourself ethos of Sixties counterculture. Hang on for the bumpy thrill ride of the psychedelic experience before it was traded in for the white lab coat of pharmaceutical medicine. Read up on the early anecdotes and field reports that have made ketamine and MDMA the newest drugs in mental health treatment. In Tripping, journalist Charles Hayes compiles fifty narratives of psychedelic odysseys-from respectable Baby Boomers and young ravers to renowned Beat poet Anne Waldman and preeminent spokesperson Terence McKenna-to give readers a glimpse into this transgressive, experimental world of self-discovery. As he liberates psychedelics from their social stigma, Hayes explores ancient Greek rites and ecstasy-fueled raves, sacred indigenous plants and synthetic ""smart drugs,"" alien encounters and connections with nature, the terrifying and the sublime. A history, cultural timepiece, and resource guide all in one, Tripping is a compendium of forbidden memories whose otherworldly tales and expository advice will provide insight and inspiration to readers even-and especially-now, twenty years after its original publication.

Introduction by: Charles Hayes
Edited by: Charles Hayes
Imprint: Arkana
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780140195743
ISBN 10: 0140195742
Series: Compass
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 November 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TrippingNote to the Reader Preface Part I: Introduction The Psychedelic (in) Society: A Brief Cultural History of Tripping Basic Features of the Psychedelic Experience Methodology and Perspectives Used in the Making of This Book Part II: The Narratives Aaron: Trawling the ghost stream Alice Dee: Highway to the sky: The road seen only by the dreamer Anne Waldman: Point and Click: Icons in the window to the ancestral manse Brendan: Pealing Faces Bruce Eisner: Dazed in the desert at the end of time Carl: The wat of the world Charles Hayes: Eat the moment (and other stories) Charlie: That's when I realized I was out of my senses Clark Heinrich: Heaven (and another story) Daniel: I realized I was dead Dennis: They don't show you all this on the top of the mountain just to destroy you on your way down Fiona: Unbridled George: Saved by the belle (and other stories) Gregory: Sinister toys and the Internet of souls Henry Bass: Hallucinating the horror of sobriety Herbie Greene: Ride the snake and break on through (or) Crashing the snake dance Jack: The pinball machine I could play without feeding it coins James: Hell's den and Pan's glen (and another story) Jarl: An early absolution Jason: The orgasm death dance (and other stories) Jeremy: The schlomus: The price of a moment's doubt John Perry Barlow: My first trip Julian: An awakening from within Kate Coleman: Then the emotions started happening Keely Stahl: The menacing orgasm that almost melted me away Keith: First communion with life Kenny: How can I die if I'm not here? (and other stories) Kevin: To either die or come Lena: I've definitely been psychotic Leonard Gibson: Portals of flame, petals of the lotus blossum Leonard Mercado: Psychedelic terra firma Malcolm: The Psychedelic is the Center Marcel: Is this a trap or a welcome? Mark: Sounding the black box of the subconscious Mark Fischer: Over the spillway Matthew S. Kent: Maha maya: The V in my path Megan: A blink of rabbit fur Paul Devereaux: Do I want to be seeing this? Peter: Everything else was normal (and other stories) Philip Cooper: The Cathedral of San Pedro the Divine Reverend Marianne: The vision made it real (and other stories) Robert Bell: I had a theory who I was (and another story) Robert Charles Wilson: The Immigrant's landing Ruth: The apostate's homecoming Sarah: Our Lady of the Eastern Star Stephen Kessler: The initiate Steve Silberman: the organismic display monitor Steven Martin Cohen: A thousand cruise missles pointed straight at my brain stem Terry: Loosing the hounds of war Tim Page: Memoirs of an acid-salved war photographer Part III: A Conversion with Terance McKenna Appendix: A Concise Index of Psychedelic Substances Notes Bibliography and Resources Acknowledgments Index

Charles Hayes, a substance use disorder counselor in New York City, has been a writer/editor for a variety of businesses and organizations, a communications manager for a marketing firm, and a journalist whose work has appeared in Reason, The Oxford American, Tikkun, High Times, and E magazine. Charles can be contacted by email at trippingtales@aol.com and at his website, www.psychedelicadventures.com.

Reviews for Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

A magnificent collection. - Alexander Shulgin, godfather of MDMA Hayes is such a bristling and intelligent writer that one almost wishes that he had written the whole book himself. The free flow of ideas about these verboten substances and their anthropological/psychological possibilities is exhilarating. - The Oxford American A sensitive and responsible approach to documenting profound experiences with 'drugs.' The results of this informal research are both informative and highly moving. - The Lancet Intriguing. The narratives are informative, cautionary, hilarious and spooky. The uninitiated may recoil from stories of visions of goat-devils, the moon as an alien flashlight, and nude escapades at Burning Man, but those in on the book's implicit wink will find like-minded stories of drug-induced bliss and abject terror. - San Francisco Chronicle Readers will find a sequence of first-person narratives (a form at least as old as The Canterbury Tales) that presents, in kaleidoscopic fashion, the last thirty years as refracted through the prism of a drug experience. - The Chronicle of Higher Education We can theorize about psychedelics till the cow patties come home, but there's nothing as poignant, perplexing, and funny as a well-told trip report. Charles Hayes has gathered together some great ones. Tripping is instructive, hilarious and -- let's face it -- enticing. I loved it. - R.U. Sirius, Mondo 2000 A classic in the growing body of contemporary psychedelic literature. For the experienced, Tripping is a harvest of inspiring moments and a reminiscence of one's own deeply shape-shifting journeys. For the uninitiated, it is a profound glimpse into the hidden world of the subconscious and a provocation for wider acceptance of the usefulness of psychedelic states. - Allan Badiner, Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics