{"id":208112,"date":"2017-07-26T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/new-book-about-psychedelics-and-weird-human-experiences-boing-boing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:26:59","slug":"new-book-about-psychedelics-and-weird-human-experiences-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/psychedelics\/new-book-about-psychedelics-and-weird-human-experiences-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"New book about psychedelics and weird human experiences &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>David Luke, a University  of Greenwich psychology lecturer and researcher of high  weirdness, has a new book out with the compelling title of  Otherworlds: Psychedelics and  Exceptional Human Experience. Based on the blurb, it sounds  like an absolute trip:          <\/p>\n<p>      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.    <\/p>\n<p>      Staring the strange straight in the third      eye this eclectic collection of otherworldly entheogenic      research delivers a comprehensive and yet ragtaglledy      scientific exploration of synaesthesia, 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    <\/p>\n<p>    \"Otherworlds: Psychedelics and    Exceptional Human Experience\" (via Daily Grail)  <\/p>\n<p>      In Paper Girls, the celebrated comics      creator Brian K Vaughan (Saga, Y: The Last Man, etc) teams up      with Cliff Chiang to tell a story thats like an all-girl      Stranger Things, with time-travel.    <\/p>\n<p>      To call Shopsins a Greenwich Village      institution was to understate something profound and      important and weird and funny: Shopsins (first a grocery      store, later a restaurant) was a kind of secret reservoir of      the odd and wonderful and informal world that New York City      once represented, in the pre-Trumpian days of Sesame Street      and Times Square sleaze: Tamara Shopsin grew up in Shopsins,      and Arbitrary Stupid      Goal is her new, no-muss memoir, is at once charming      and sorrowing, a magnificent time-capsule containing the soul      of a drowned city.    <\/p>\n<p>      There are three more stops on my tour for      Walkaway: tomorrow at San Diego Comic-Con, next weekend at      Defcon 25 in Las Vegas, and August 10th at the Burbank Public      Library.    <\/p>\n<p>      The TREBLAB X11 Earphones are versatile,      offer great sound, and are currently $32.99 in the Boing      Boing Store.These Bluetooth earbuds are a great workout      companion. 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Based on the blurb, it sounds like an absolute trip: 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.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/psychedelics\/new-book-about-psychedelics-and-weird-human-experiences-boing-boing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychedelics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}