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Luke, D. (2017). Otherworlds: Psychedelics and exceptional human experience. London: Muswell Hill Press. A psychonautic scientific trip to the weirdest outposts of the psychedelic terrain, inhaling anything and everything relevant from... more

Luke, D. (2017). Otherworlds: Psychedelics and exceptional human experience. London: Muswell Hill Press.

A psychonautic scientific trip to the weirdest outposts of the psychedelic terrain, inhaling anything and everything relevant from psychology, psychiatry, parapsychology, anthropology, neuroscience, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, biochemistry, religious studies, cultural history, shamanism and the occult along the way.

Staring the strange straight in the third eye this eclectic collection of otherworldly entheogenic research delivers a comprehensive and yet ragtaglledy scientific exploration of syanaesthesia, extra-dimensional percepts, inter-species communication, eco-consciousness, mediumship, possession, entity encounters, near-death and out-of-body experiences, psi, alien abduction experiences and lycanthropy. Essentially, its everything you ever wanted to know about weird psychedelic experiences, but were too afraid to ask…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908995149

“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

Otherworlds:
Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword – Dr Dean Radin
- Blasting Open the Doors of Perception

Preface
- Exceptional Psychedelic Experience
- Otherworld Cartographies
- A Strange Journey on a Crooked Path

SECTION 1: Explorations of Exceptional Entheogen Experiences

1: Notes on Getting Cactus Lodged in Your Reducing Valve: San Pedro and Psychic Abilities
- Cactus of the Four Winds
- Plant Allies and Plant Alkaloids
- Artificial Paradises or Natural Chemical Utopias?
- Cleansing the Doors of (Extrasensory) Perception
- Putting the Psi Back into Psychedelics
- Uncorking the Genie's Bottle
- Putting the Cork Back in the Bottle

2. Psychedelic Possession: The Growing Incorporation of Incorporation into Ayahuasca Use
- The Growing Incorporation of Incorporation in Ayahuasca Use
- The Prepossessing Power of Possession
- Psychedelic Possession Outside of Umbandaime and Barquinha
- Any Body for Anybody: Shape Sharing or Shape Shifting?
- Psychedelic Possession Outside of Shamanism, and Inside Ordinary People
- So Why is Umbandaime on the Rise?
- Shamanic… or Individualistic, Pluralistic, Consumerist and Technologized?
- Synthesis and Analysis
- Postscript: Flying High with Goose and Crow

3. The Induction of Synaesthesia with Chemical Agents: A Systematic Review
(with Devin Terhune)
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Postscript: A Placebo-Controlled LSD-induced Synaesthesia Experiment

4. Rock Art or Rorschach: Is There More to Entoptics Than Meets the Eye?
- Entoptics as Hallucinations and Projections: Both, Either, or Neither?
- Multidimensional Form Constants
- The Extra Dimensions of Cyberdelia
- Turning a Blind Eye to Entoptic Phenomena
- Omni-directional Perception
- Paranormal Visual Perception
- Conclusions: Cleansing the Doors of Misperception
- Postscript: Hurling Algebra at the Hard Problem of Consciousness to Obscure Absurd Infinite Regress

5. Discarnate Entities and Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, Phenomenology and Ontology
- History of DMT Biochemistry
- The Speculated Psychopharmacology of DMT, its Related Compounds and the Pineal Gland
- Neurochemical Action of DMT
- Phenomenology of the DMT Experience
- Mental Imagery
- DMT and Veridical Visions
- Phenomenological Cartography of the DMT World
- Discarnate Entities
- Ontology of DMT Beings

6. Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters
- A Brief Glance at the Truly Forbidden
- Snake Eyes
- Sentient Entities
- Postscript: More Fishy Than the Greenwich Pie n Eel Shop

7. Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
- Turning Topiary
- Ecodelia
- Shamanism, Animism and Animaphany
- Interspecies Communication

SECTION 2: Do Psychedelics Like Psilocybin Really Cause Psi?

8. Psychoactive Substances and Paranormal Phenomena Review

9. Psychedelic/Neurochemical Models of Paranormal Experience
- Brain as Filter
- β-Carbolines, Tryptamines and Psi
- DMT, Near-Death and Other Exceptional Experiences
- Ketamine and NDEs
- Dopamine and Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
- Overview of Psychedelic/Neurochemical Models of Paranormal Experience

10. Field Reports of Psychedelic Paranormal Phenomena
- Anthropological and Historical Reports
- Personal Views and Experiences
- Clinical Reports
- Evaluation of Field Reports

11. Surveys of Psychedelic Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
- Surveys of Belief in the Paranormal
- Surveys of Paranormal Experiences
- Surveys and Out-of-body Experiences
- Summary of Survey Research

12. Experimental Psychedelic ESP Research
- Forced Choice Designs
- Free Response Psychometry (Object Reading) Experiments
- Other Free Response Clairvoyance Experiments
- Free Response Telepathy Experiments
- Summary of Experimental Research

13. Methodological Critique of Experimental ESP Research

14. General Summary and Conclusions on Psychedelic Parapsychological Research

Afterword: Pulling Magicians out of a Rabbit Hole

References

Index