A comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences.
Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research to create Otherworlds - Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience.
“Emphasizing parapsychological aspects of the psychedelic experience, Luke’s new book fills in a fascinating and previously neglected lacuna in the burgeoning field of human studies with these compounds. ” – Rick Strassman, PhD
“A psychedelic Indiana Jones. ” – Matt Colborn, PhD
“David Luke’s delightful one-liner about his book is that it’s ‘about weird people in weird places taking weird substances doing weird things and, importantly, having weird experiences’ . . . On reflection, it’s much more profound than that . . . So weird reader, forge ahead without fear. ” – Dean Radin, PhD
“In his fascinating book David plunges into this controversial topic and gives the backstory, the front story, and possible ways forward to bring paranormal and psychedelic research together, and further our understanding of both. ” – Dennis J. McKenna, PhD
“A remarkable collection and a necessary one. This body of research illuminates aspects of psychedelic experiences usually obscured or denied in the medical and clinical research and sensationalized in the popular press. ” – James Fadiman, PhD
“A real Dr Gonzo. ” – Will Self
By:
David Luke
Imprint: Aeon Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9781916068964
ISBN 10: 1916068960
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 31 May 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Foreword – Dr Dean Radin Preface SECTION 1: Explorations of Exceptional Entheogen Experiences Chapter 1: Notes on Getting Cactus Lodged in Your Reducing Valve: San Pedro and Psychic Abilities Chapter 2. Psychedelic Possession: The Growing Incorporation of Incorporation into Ayahuasca Use Chapter 3. The Induction of Synaesthesia with Chemical Agents: A Systematic Review (with Devin Terhune) Chapter 4. Rock Art or Rorschach: Is There More to Entoptics Than Meets the Eye? Chapter 5. Discarnate Entities and Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, Phenomenology and Ontology Chapter 6. Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters Chapter 7. Psychedelics and Species Connectedness SECTION 2: Do Psychedelics Like Psilocybin Really Cause Psi? Chapter 8. Psychoactive Substances and Paranormal Phenomena Review Chapter 9. Psychedelic/Neurochemical Models of Paranormal Experience Chapter 10. Field Reports of Psychedelic Paranormal Phenomena Chapter 11. Surveys of Psychedelic Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences Chapter 12. Experimental Psychedelic ESP Research Chapter 13. Methodological Critique of Experimental ESP Research Chapter 14. General Summary and Conclusions on Psychedelic Parapsychological Research Afterword: Pulling Magicians out of a Rabbit Hole References Index
Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and Lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology for Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University. He was President of the Para-psychological Association, founded the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon in London and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspectives of science and shamanism.
