Christopher Gray

The Acid Diaries (eBook, ePUB)

A Psychonaut's Guide to the History and Use of LSD

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD • Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip • Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred • Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip. So extraordinary, and to his surprise so enjoyable, were the effects that he began to take the same dose in the same way--quietly and on his own--once every two to three weeks. In The Acid Diaries, Gray details his experimentation with LSD over a period of three years and shares the startling realization that his visions were weaving an ongoing story from trip to trip, revealing an underlying reality of personal and spiritual truths. Following the theories of Stanislav Grof and offering quotes from others' experiences that parallel his own--including those of Aldous Huxley, Albert Hofmann, and Gordon Wasson--he shows that trips progress through three stages: the first dealing with personal issues and pre-birth consciousness; the second with ego-loss, often with supernatural overtones; and the third with sacred, spiritual, and even apocalyptic themes. Pairing his experiences with an exploration of psychedelic use throughout history, including the ergot-spawned mass hallucinations that were common through the Middle Ages and the early use of LSD for therapeutic purposes, Gray offers readers a greater understanding and appreciation for the potential value of LSD not merely for transpersonal growth but also for spiritual development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594778889
• Artikelnr.: 49185501

Autorenporträt

Christopher Gray (1942-2009) was well known for his involvement in the 1960s with Situationist International, for his various radical writings, and as Swami Prem Paritosh, disciple of the guru Osho. He translated Raoul Vaneigem's Banalités de Base (as The Totality for Kids) and is the author of Leaving the Twentieth Century, the first English language anthology of Situationist ideas, and the biography Life of Osho.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Batch 25
2 Wonder Drug
3 The Doors of Perception
4 Psychopolitics and the Sixties
5 Bad Trips
6 The First Maps
7 Sleep--and Waking Up
8 Realms of the Human Unconscious
9 Session 1: A Low-Dose Trip
10 The First Group of Trips
11 Session 6: Doubling the Dose
12 BPM 2
13 Session 8: Windle Hey
14 Session 9: Mum
15 Underground Psychotherapy
16 Set, Setting, and History
17 God as Light
18 “I Saw a Man Cloathed with Raggs . . .”
19 Resistance
20 Psychedelics Since the Sixties
21 Resistance (continued)
22 Anna and A Cappella
23 Anna’s Death
24 Session 21: Being Two People Simultaneously
25 The Transpersonal
26 Tripping on the Heath
27 The Purple Flowers
28 “Ecstatic Journey of the Living into the Realm of the Dead . . .”
29 “Ecstatic Journey . . .” (continued)
30 Terrible Beauty
31 “Not the true samadhi . . .”
32 Session 27: Last Trip in the Woods
33 Demonstrations, Ecstasy, Advaita
34 Return of the Repressed
35 “Another World Is Possible”
36 “Another World Is Possible” (continued)
37 Toward a Sacramental Vision of Reality
38 Meltdown in God
39 Out of the Body?
40 Session 45: At Judges Walk
41 BPM 4
42 The Long Flashback
43 Interim Report
44 Interim Report (continued)
45 Mutual Immanence
46 Sanctus
Appendix: Ergot and the West
Notes
Bibliography: A Chronology of Psychedelic
Literature