El viajero mental : Una historia de la psicodelia

The psychedelic experience contradicts the modern view of the cosmos. All the stars reside within the human being. It reveals a radically different universe, akin to indigenous, Hindu, and Buddhist cosmologies. The consequences are so revolutionary that, if embraced, they would completely transform our understanding of reality. It is no wonder that the various micro-powers, the dominant practices and discourses that shape bodies and subjectivities, have combated the psychedelic counterculture, preventing its incorporation into modern common sense. The "plants of the gods" (Hofmann) allow for a valuable aesthetic and spiritual experience. This book, while championing this counterculture, outlines a particular history of psychedelia, guided by William Blake, Aldous Huxley, María Sabina, Albert Hofmann, Henri Michaux, Terence McKenna, and Jeremy Narby. The deep psyche is a terra incognita. Certain substances allow one to visit that strange place where everything shines with its own light, the restrictions of space and time disappear, the constraints of language are released, and the visual emerges from the vibrant sound. It is an experience not only of the individual mind (egoic and subject to the greed of passions), but of an extended mind in perpetual creation. A magic not without risks. Accessing the heaven of Unity requires first visiting the hell where the ego is immolated. An adventure of perception worthy of the mind's dignity and open to the depths of reality.