Full name: The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

Author: Benny Shanon Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780199252930

This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, & analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew & on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca & travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of non-ordinary states of consciousness in general. Benny Shanon is a Psychology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem & holder of the Mandel Chair in Cognition. Similar books: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson How Children Succeed by Paul Tough Addiction & Grace by Gerald G. May Dying Well by Ira Byock ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull Black Pain by Terrie M. Williams A Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell Love Is Stronger Than Death by Stanley M. Giannet Astrology, Karma & Transformation by Stephen Arroyo Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge Saturn by Liz Greene The Trauma Spectrum by Robert C. Scaer Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell The Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin