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From the Back Cover: Psychedelics have been a part-often a central and sacred part-of most societies throughout history, and for half a century psychedelics have rumbled through the Western world, seeding a subculture, titillating the media, fascinating youth, terrifying parents, enraging politicians, and intriguing researchers. Not surprisingly, these curious chemicals fascinated some of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, fourteen of whom were interviewed for this book. Because no further human research can be done, these researchers constitute an irreplaceable resource. Higher Wisdom offers their fascinating anecdotes, invaluable knowledge, and hard-won wisdom-the culmination of fifty years of research and reflection on one of the most intriguing and challenging topics of our time.

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. --- Transpersonal psychology. --- Hallucinogenic drugs. --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Experience (Religion) --- Psychology, Transpersonal --- Transhumanistic psychology --- Psychology --- Consciousness-expanding drugs --- Hallucinogens --- Mind-distorting drugs --- Psychedelic drugs --- Psychotomimetic drugs --- Psychotropic drugs

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Shamanism—the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge—has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm—art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected the artistic output of indigenous cultures in Central and South America before the European invasions of the sixteenth century. Using ethnographic accounts of shamanic trance experiences, Stone defines a core set of trance vision characteristics, including enhanced senses, ego dissolution, bodily distortions, flying, spinning and undulating sensations, synaesthesia, and physical transformation from the human self into animal and other states of being. Stone then traces these visionary characteristics in ancient artworks from Costa Rica and Peru. She makes a convincing case that these works, especially those of the Moche, depict shamans in a trance state or else convey the perceptual experience of visions by creating deliberately chaotic and distorted conglomerations of partial, inverted, and incoherent images.

Indian art --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Shamanism --- Shamanism in art. --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Experience (Religion) --- Religions --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Art, Indian --- Indian art, Modern --- Indians --- Pre-Columbian art --- Precolumbian art --- Art

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History of civilization --- Mexico --- Aztecs --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Mayas --- Aztèques --- Hallucinogènes et expériences religieuses --- Drug use --- Ethnobotany --- Religion and mythology --- Usage des drogues --- Ethnobotanique --- Religion et mythologie --- Aztèques --- Hallucinogènes et expériences religieuses --- Aztec mythology --- Maya mythology --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Mythology, Maya --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Mythology, Aztec --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Experience (Religion) --- Nahuas

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This book covers the psychedelic ayahuasca tourism in Peru, with its facet-rich psychological, pharmacological, anthropological, and sociological aspects. The reader gets an interdisciplinary insight into the historical development and the current state of ayahuasca research. Findings from three empirical studies are presented, which the author has won in a 4-year field research: How do common standards develop in this particular form of psycho-spiritual tourism? Why are people from developed nations and urban centres heading to the Amazon to ingest the psychedelic beverage Ayahuasca? How do they experience such ceremonies and retreats? Which insights, personal meaning and effects do they gain and how do they integrate their experiences into the everyday life? Contents Traditional settings and ayahuasca tourism Spirituality and neo-shamanism Research history of psychedelic substances Ritual elements that influence psychedelic experiences Motivational elements for the ingestion of ayahuasca Phenomenological analysis of experiences of ayahuasca Subjective meanings, effects, healing theories and integration experiences The development of common standards in ayahuasca tourism Target Groups Scholars and students of medical anthropology, psychotherapy, ethno-psychiatry, ethno-pharmacology, public health, sociology, religious studies, tourism sciences Psychotherapists, psychological counselors The Author Tom John Wolff, Dipl.-Psych., is a licensed psychotherapist and addiction therapist in Germany.

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Experience (Religion) --- Social work. --- Medical policy. --- Culture. --- Social Work. --- Health Policy. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Social aspects --- Government policy

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Hallucinogens --- Hallucinogenic drugs --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Hallucinogènes --- Hallucinogènes et expériences religieuses --- Hallucinogens. --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Consciousness-expanding drugs --- Mind-distorting drugs --- Psychedelic drugs --- Psychotomimetic drugs --- Hallucinogenic Agents --- Hallucinogenic Drugs --- Hallucinogenic Substances --- Psychedelics --- Psychedelic Agents --- Psychotomimetic Agents --- Agents, Hallucinogenic --- Agents, Psychedelic --- Agents, Psychotomimetic --- Drugs, Hallucinogenic --- Substances, Hallucinogenic --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Plants --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Experience (Religion) --- Psychotropic drugs --- Plant --- Botany --- Plant Proteins --- Ethnopharmacology --- Hallucinations --- Cultural Anthropology --- Ethnography --- Ethnographies --- Qualitative Research --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Material Culture --- Culture, Material --- Material Cultures --- Hallucinogen --- Hallucinogenic Agent --- Hallucinogenic Drug --- Hallucinogenic Substance --- Psychedelic --- Psychedelic Agent --- Psychotomimetic Agent --- Agent, Hallucinogenic --- Agent, Psychedelic --- Agent, Psychotomimetic --- Drug, Hallucinogenic --- Substance, Hallucinogenic