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The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

A cognitive psychologist's systematic, comparative catalogue of the ayahuasca visionary experience — the closest existing scholarly attempt to map which discrete forms and themes recur across many people. It is foundational for the cross-substance side of this record: the same "do independent people see the same structured content?" question, asked rigorously of ayahuasca decades before this project. Descriptive phenomenology, explicitly agnostic on whether the visions correspond to anything external. ISBN 9780199252923.

Authors
Benny Shanon
Journal
Oxford University Press
Published
2002-11-01
ISBN
9780199252923
Content type
Book
Authority
Academic
Stance score
2

Abstract

A cognitive psychologist's systematic, comparative catalogue of the ayahuasca visionary experience — the closest existing scholarly attempt to map which discrete forms and themes recur across many people. It is foundational for the cross-substance side of this record: the same "do independent people see the same structured content?" question, asked rigorously of ayahuasca decades before this project. Descriptive phenomenology, explicitly agnostic on whether the visions correspond to anything external. ISBN 9780199252923.

Topics

  • Book
  • Phenomenology
  • Ayahuasca
  • Foundational
  • ayahuasca
  • DMT

Citation

Benny Shanon (2002) The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience. Oxford University Press.

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