Book description
A collection of transformational, awe-provoking psychedelic experiences.Ā
In Tripping, Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life--respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies, young ravers, and accomplished writers such as John Perry Barlow, Anne Waldman, Robert Charles Wilson, Paulā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked Tripping as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There are plenty of academic tomes about psychedelicsātheir chemistry, their medical applications, their cultural impact, and so on. I was hunting for something more personal: stories of peopleās experiences while zonked out of their gourds. What I found was this aptly named collection of tripping stories, with chapters submitted by writers from all walks of life.
It's a sipping bookāat over 500 pages, itās one you take a chapter at a time, not devour cover to cover. What makes the book special is its remarkable curation: the stories are diverse, covering the full gamut of psychedelic experiences from spiritual nirvanaā¦
From Cody's list on The best books for exploring psychedelics (without actually taking any).
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