Description: Further DetailsTitle: Altered StatesCondition: NewEAN: 9780231177313ISBN: 9780231177313Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/08/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Douglas OstoLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in AmericaISBN-10: 0231177313Description: In the 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried on with the experiment, advancing a fascinating alchemy called psychedelic Buddhism. Many think exploration with psychedelics in Buddhism faded with the revolutionary spirit of the sixties, but the underground practice has evolved into a brand of religiosity as eclectic and challenging as the era that created it. Altered States combines interviews with well-known figures in American Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality—including Lama Surya Das, Erik Davis, Allan Badiner, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei, Rick Strassman, and Charles Tart—and personal stories of everyday practitioners to define a distinctly American religious phenomenon. The nuanced perspective that emerges, grounded in a detailed history of psychedelic religious experience, adds critical depth to debates over the controlled use of psychedelics and drug-induced mysticism. The book also opens new paths of inquiry into such issues as re-enchantment, the limits of rationality, the biochemical and psychosocial basis of altered states of consciousness, and the nature of subjectivity.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Medicine, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Altered States
Title: Altered States
EAN: 9780231177313
ISBN: 9780231177313
Release Date: 01/08/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America
ISBN-10: 0231177313
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Altered States : Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Social History, Experimental Psychology
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: D. E. Osto
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Psychology, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
