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OrgoneConclusion
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New / Recent Psychonaut Authors?
#7481460 - 10/03/07 03:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only one I can think of is Daniel Pinchbeck. He was mildly interesting, but BOTH ('Breaking Open The Head') was too much of a smorgasbord of trip experiences with lots of borrowed material from previous entheogenic spelunkers. Then he completely lost it with his 2012 material; obviously an attempt to merely cash in on the latest craze.
Strassman is intriguing for his contribution on DMT, but he is a scientist first and author second so future works will likely be scarce.
Who will step up to the plate to carry us on a magic carpet ride into the 21st century?
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7481507 - 10/03/07 03:35 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would need many 'entheogenic' contributions (read: Lucy) for inspiration. That - and I would have to anesthesize (or remove ) the skeptic portion of my brain.
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Check out Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, by Graham Hancock
He's very respectable IMO and the book is a really engaging read. He borrows a lot from McKenna, Strassman, and others, but contributes his personal experiences to the mix as well as a wealth of research (not the McKennian kind, either, the real kind). He may not be the next great spokesman for psychedelics but this book alone is a major contribution to the literature.
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There is little left to say about psychedelics. Most of what has been written on them is fanciful, ill informed crap. I am content to let them fade from the publics consciousness. Mainstream attention is always bad, and it results in increased usage followed by idiotic behavior which is followed by a crackdown by the authorities who are entrenched in the notion that people are not responsible for their own actions.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#7481680 - 10/03/07 04:29 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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weee i am! its just not ready my book is gona be a colaberation shared thru hippie circles and secret cause hippie people after hearing me talk want me to write about it
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Rose
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: The only one I can think of is Daniel Pinchbeck. He was mildly interesting, but BOTH ('Breaking Open The Head') was too much of a smorgasbord of trip experiences with lots of borrowed material from previous entheogenic spelunkers. Then he completely lost it with his 2012 material; obviously an attempt to merely cash in on the latest craze.
Strassman is intriguing for his contribution on DMT, but he is a scientist first and author second so future works will likely be scarce.
Who will step up to the plate to carry us on a magic carpet ride into the 21st century?
I've often wondered the same thing. I asked these questions here, several years ago (before I went dark). Unless another person steps up to literally preach... it'll likely go viral.
If there isn't another Leary, we'll have The Shroomery and other websites (Erowid has been carrying the torch among kids... for the last few years. Thank GOD.)
It is specifically why I created the Tripper's FAQ, over here.
There is a current void... it is sad... 'cause this is a time where we really NEED another hippie revolution.
Yeah... I know... hippies are full of shit but... beats our other options. And REAL hippies, the few there are... are a dying breed.
We CAN'T loose this tradition. It is the first non-scientific, Western idea, since Paganism... that wasn't entirely full of shit.
But Strassman has a point... what good does it do?
What the hell is this, Big O? Your spiritual side is showing. Now THIS is an event. Are you softening in your old age?
You could do it. You're just about controversial enough. Why the fuck not, dude? Could you imagine a skeptical leader?
We could call ourselves the Neo-Hippies!
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Edited by Rose (10/06/07 06:45 PM)
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Rose]
#7492235 - 10/06/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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And REAL hippies, the few there are... are a dying breed.
Yes we are, but there was never very many of us no matter how it looked back then.
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Pinchbeck is fluff.
I have been keeping my eyes on a book by James Kent called Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason.
http://www.tripzine.com/pit/
might be worth checking out the chapters he has written so far. unfortunately a final release date of his work is not yet to be seen.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Icelander]
#7492275 - 10/06/07 06:27 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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so many people are afraid to loose their stable image, I notice this A LOT in the people I associate with. one friend fears insanity, and fears he will loose his connection with the outside world. so much fear and not enough curious cats.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Icelander]
#7492303 - 10/06/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said: And REAL hippies, the few there are... are a dying breed.
Yes we are, but there was never very many of us no matter how it looked back then.
Pop culture can do terrible things... so can K-Marts and cheap ponchos.
Alas...
I was born after my time.
Can you imagine!? I had to do RESEARCH to find my inner hippie!
That said... the research WAS very fun.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Icelander]
#7492366 - 10/06/07 07:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Real hippy? Cuz you eat tofu? You bathe, cut your hair and don't smoke pot, how can you claim hippydom?
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clichés get boring, we like to change.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Rose]
#7492420 - 10/06/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I will need a sidekick to build me up, sort of like a John The Baptist / press agent / public relations manager. You would also be responsible for procuring drugs and young, hot neophytes; for booking musicians and organizing large-scale be-ins; etc. Are you up for the job? It will be quite a ride.
I will also be hiring a personal chef, masseuse, trainer, stylist and astrologist. Plus we shall need a full-time lawyer as soon as the cash starts to roll in.
If we are going to do this, it will not be haphazard like those that have gone before. We must learn from their oversights and take it to the next level.
I will need a cool name, too. My real name is something akin to 'John Smith'. It has no pizazz. Oh yeah, can't forget a clothes designer.
Now collecting resumes (and 8 X 10 glossies ) from those who want to participate in Team Shmoopy.
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7492434 - 10/06/07 07:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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www.Zoe7.com
I heard about this guy on the Psychedelic Salon podcasts. I haven't read much of what he had to say, and only really listened to his "audio auto-biography". I haven't even looked at his website.
What did amaze me was how nuts this guy is, yet how sane he is. To my knowledge, nobody has done the poly-drug use thing to the extreme extent that this guy has. Not only did he do ridiculous combinations of drugs, but he threw in brain wave syncronizers and all that stuff as well. Now he believes that he allowed a mixture of 7 different interdimensional beings into his brain or something.
If anyone knows anything about this guy, please spill the beans. I'm just throwing it out there because I was under the impression that he was new, and I was impressed by his drug use
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7492438 - 10/06/07 07:38 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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AlteredAgain said: clichés get boring, we like to change.
Yes, and become clean-shaven stock brokers who pay taxes and drive BMWs...
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OrgoneConclusion said: I will need a sidekick to build me up, sort of like a John The Baptist / press agent / public relations manager. Are you up for the job? It will be quite a ride.
I'll BAPTIZE, but I won't get my head chopped off!
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OrgoneConclusion
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Hopefully he will live long enough to become a front-runner.
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In all seriousness, I think there is still a lot of psychonautics going on, but not in the psychedelic realm. For instance, one of my favorite authors right now is Stanislov Grof. His book The Adventure of Self-Discovery (which features 2 books, Dimensions of Consciousness And New Perspectives In Psychotherapy) was about the most indepth book on alternate states of consciousness I've ever read. I highly recommend that book to anyone needing a psychonaut fix. He breaks down and categorizes every alternate state of consciousness experienced and discussed by most, and possibly more. These are all states he and/or his clients have experienced in his Holotropic Breathwork sessions, which he uses now that he can't legally administer LSD. He basically gets his patients to hyperventilate and plays very emotional, yet neutral, music and lets them go into the sub/trans-conscious.
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Huehuecoyotl
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Re: New / Recent Psychonaut Authors? [Re: Icelander]
#7492473 - 10/06/07 07:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes we are, but there was never very many of us no matter how it looked back then.
Why sell yourself short with such a piss poor self limitation...a label...hippie. Hippies were the creation of pop culture and never really existed. Those who tried to embody that were responding to an image created by television, pop music, and movies.
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