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Xenolinguistics : Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness by Diana Reed Slattery, Allyson Grey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Xenolinguistics : Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness about?
Are language and consciousness co-evolving? Can psychedelic experience cast light on this topic? In the Western world, we stand at the dawn of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a proliferation of new psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal; the anthropology of ayahuasca use; and new discoveries in ethnobotany. From scientific papers to the individual trip reports on the Vaults of Erowid and the life work of Terence McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and Stanislav Grof, we are converging on new knowledge of the mind and how to shift its functioning for therapeutic, spiritual, problem-solving, artistic and/or recreational purposes. In our culture, pychonautics, the practices of individuals and small groups using techniques such as meditation, shamanic ritual, ecstatic dance and substances such as LSD and psilocybin for personal exploration, is a field of action and thought in its infancy. The use of psychonautic practice as a site of research and a method of knowledge production is central to this work, the first in-depth book focusing on psychedelics, consciousness, and language. __Xenolinguistics__ documents the author's eleven-year adventure of psychonaut
Who reads Xenolinguistics : Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Diana Reed Slattery, Allyson Grey
- Publisher
- Random House Publisher Services;EVOLVER EDITIONS
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781583945995
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Body Mind & Spirit, Linguistics, Science