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100 1 $aDevereux, Paul.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79101453
245 14 $aThe long trip :$ba prehistory of psychedelia /$cPaul Devereux.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Arkana,$c1997.
300 $axix, 298 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-287) and index.
520 $aMany people assume that experimentation with hallucinogens began with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic revolution of the fifties and sixties. In fact, as this illuminating study demonstrates, psychedelics have been used by human societies in every part of the world for ritual and spiritual purposes for millennia. As Paul Devereux points out, our modern culture is eccentric in its refusal to integrate the profound experiences offered by these natural substances into our own spiritual life and traditions.
520 8 $aModern Western culture's recent experimentation with psychedelic drugs raised the awareness of archaeologists and anthropologists, leading them to recognize the use of hallucinogens in surviving traditional societies and in the archaeological record.
520 8 $aDevereux reveals dramatic new evidence - from linguistics, ethnobotany, biology, and other fields - for the psychedelic experiences of various prehistoric cultures, and ponders the implications and effects of psychedelic revelations on our contemporary worldview, linking them to out-of-body and near death experiencs, shamanic trances, even memory and dreaming.
650 0 $aHallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058491
650 0 $aHallucinogenic drugs and religious experience$xHistory.
650 0 $aHallucinogenic drugs and religious experience$vCross-cultural studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058492
852 00 $bglx$hBL65.D7$iD45 1997