A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience

Carpenter, Dan

ISBN 10: 1594770905 / ISBN 13: 9781594770906

Published by Park Street Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience
• Publisher: Park Street Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594770905
• ISBN 13: 9781594770906
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

A bold cartography of the inner landscape visible only to those experiencing altered states

• Presents the psychedelic experience as an objective landscape that embodies the Other, rather than a subjective state of mind

• Provides corroboration of phenomena encountered by those who venture into this domain

Journeying into the invisible world revealed by his use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM (dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found that what he experienced was not simply subjective sensations and psychological states but an objective world of familiar, if inordinately odd, landmarks and characters. The running diary he kept of these voyages recounts impressions of a landscape charted by other travelers into this Inner Space and includes descriptions of many of the same phenomena recorded by such mind travelers as Terence and Dennis McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and others who have experienced the hive mind--the pool of all consciousness. Into this territory where expression is like chaos theory, where oddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl of images and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist, accepting whatever might be rather than what he hopes he might find. What emerges is not a location crafted by subjective experience, but a landscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious state in which the barriers between the self and the not-self dissolve.

About the Author

Dan Carpenter (1963-2005) took thirteen high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in this book.