Winner of the 2006 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines
The Antipodes of the Mind
Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
Benny Shanon
Price: £74.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925292-3
Publication date: 7 November 2002
488 pages, 7 tables and 4 halftones, 234x156 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'The experiences described in this book are quite literally mind-blowing and the cosmic vision it describes will be of great interest to TC readers. Highly recommended.' - The Cauldron
- 'Shanon's authorial persona is earnest, serious, straightforward, absolutely trustworthy. Antipodes is suffused with a sense of genuine adventure.' - John Horgan, author of Rational Mysticism
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| Description | | - A serious, groundbreaking work by a well-proven scholar
- An important contribution to the increasingly popular exegesis of Ayahuasca
- The first complete mapping of the Ayahuasca experience
| | This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is
based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca, and travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of
non-ordinary states of consciousness in general. |
Readership: Anthropologists, psychologists, students of consciousness, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists and other clinicians, philosophers and students of religion and of culture, botanists and ethnobotanists, pharmacologists, physiologists, medical practitioners.
| Contents |
Prologue
Preliminaries:
General background; Theoretical foundations; Methodology and general structure
The Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience;
Atmosphere and general effects; Open eye visualizations; A structural typology of Ayahuasca visualizations; Interaction and narration; The contents of visions; The themes of visions; Ideas, insights, and reflections; Non-visual perceptions; Consciousness I; Transformations; Time; Meaning and semantics; Consciousness II; Light
Theoretical issues:
Stages and order; Contextual considerations; Cognitive parameters; Dynamics; A general theoretical perspective; Concluding philosophical reflections
Epilogue
Appendix (Quantitative Data)
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
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Benny Shanon, Professor, Department of Psychology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holder of the Mandel Chair in Cognition
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