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Ten Trips
- Author
- Andy Mitchell
- Narrator
- Andy Mitchell
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 21 September 2023
- Run Time
- 12 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Popular science, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Popular psychology, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Coping with / advice about mental health issues, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural anthropology, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Psychedelics have made a comeback, but the truth is they remain a mystery. In this daring, profound and wildly entertaining investigation, clinical neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell tests the claims being made for these substances by taking ten different psychedelics in ten different settings.
Journeying from a neuroimaging lab in London to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend’s basement kitchen, his encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con men, psychonauts and shamans, and above all with the drugs themselves, take us beyond the hype and reveal the reality of psychedelics in all their strangeness, darkness and wonder.
‘An original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights’ Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts
‘Canny and somewhat sceptical . . . rigorous and penetrating . . . This is a wonderful book, a journey into the nature and potential of consciousness itself’ Literary Review
'An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended' Anil Seth, author of Being You
‘Utterly compelling. Some books are in a category of their own and this is one them. Reading it is like having an out of body experience’ Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters
‘Superb . . . brilliant’ TLS
© Andy Mitchell 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Critics Review
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A collection of tales from the far frontiers of psychedelic experience . . . superb . . . brilliant
TLS
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Canny and somewhat sceptical ... rigorous and penetrating ... illuminating ... this is a wonderful book, a journey into the nature and potential of consciousness itself, and of life on this troubled and monopolised planet
Literary Review
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Philosophical and darkly humorous ... for all the mystical experiences [psychedelics] afford, divesting them of their shadow side does seekers a disservice, Mitchell holds
Spectator
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A powerful reminder that psychedelics can’t be made sense of entirely within a framework of chemical interactions in the brain. We need to view them as something potent, to be respected
New Scientist
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An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended
Anil Seth, author of Being You
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An original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights into their essential qualities
Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts
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Utterly compelling. Some books are in a category of their own and this is one them. Reading it is like having an out of body experience
Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters
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Beguiling, captivating, mind-expanding. It's impossible to read this book and not be tempted to replicate some of its wild, sanity-stretching forays into the peculiarities of human perception
Stuart Ritchie, author of Science Fictions
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A dazzling, timely book, as deep and poignant as it is madcap and hilarious
Professor Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, University College London
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A hair-raising hurtle of a ride into the belly of the psychedelic renaissance, fuelled by spectacular prose
Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of Grass
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Details
- Author
- Andy Mitchell
- Narrator
- Andy Mitchell
- Duration
- 12 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529904154
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Popular science, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Popular psychology, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Coping with / advice about mental health issues, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural anthropology, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Psychedelics have made a comeback, but the truth is they remain a mystery. In this daring, profound and wildly entertaining investigation, clinical neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell tests the claims being made for these substances by taking ten different psychedelics in ten different settings.Journeying from a neuroimaging lab in London to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend’s basement kitchen, his encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con men, psychonauts and shamans, and above all with the drugs themselves, take us beyond the hype and reveal the reality of psychedelics in all their strangeness, darkness and wonder.‘An original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights’ Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts‘Canny and somewhat sceptical . . . rigorous and penetrating . . . This is a wonderful book, a journey into the nature and potential of consciousness itself’ Literary Review'An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended' Anil Seth, author of Being You‘Utterly compelling. Some books are in a category of their own and this is one them. Reading it is like having an out of body experience’ Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters‘Superb . . . brilliant’ TLS© Andy Mitchell 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
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