Trips: How Hallucinagens Work in Your Brain
Trips shows, using color illustrations, the latest research, and bleeding-edge cultural analogies, how the still-mysterious hallucinogens may work in the still-mysterious brain. Written in language a general audience can understand, the book’s tone is light and irreverent, yet at the same time deals with the drug culture in a serious way.
Trips offers readers a rare look at the social, cultural, historical, and scientific phenomenon of psychedelics-through the eyes of artists who’ve grown up
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How we know what we know about what we don’t know,
Yes, the subtitle of Trips is “How Hallucinogens Work In Your Brian”, but it didn’t describe the process as much as I hoped it would. The suprising reason for the lack of complete explanation is that there is no complete explanation. We don’t know exactly how these controversial chemicals work! The most important aspect of this book is that it explains why hallucinogen research lets us understand the mysteries of the brain. This book is not a guidebook for acid-heads, it is for anyone interested in our brains! It is a quick read, so don’t expect a long rigorous exposition. My only complaint is that the Crumb illustrations have nothing to do with the text, and mainly just supply a textual scenery.
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|Hoffmann Wasn’t Wrong…,
A often overlooked point of view that the war on drugs culture tends to ignore or neglect is the fact that “even the best theories are history if enough people produce the right number of contradictory findings”. So, in my opinion this book does a great service in informing those whose opinions are not biased towards total allegiance to the status quo.
I have to laugh when i see headlines in the news about how the government is willing to ignore it’s own findings on the medicinal uses of marijuana due to the ideological monetary inconvenience that information imposes on the financial structure of certain government agencies…even more so given that the money could be better spent on policing real issues such as terrorism, violence…etc,etc.
The desire to alter conciousness is as old as humans themselves and this book illustrates that clearly and precise. There is even an altered states graphic form for the prospective experimenter to fill out.
Overall the nice comic illustrations provide the needed comic relief to get through some light scientific reading…although very accurate it’s too light for any serious scientific or chemistry buffs. But for the average user(reader) it’s good to know all that is included before you take any risks.
The section in the back of the book filled with URL’s is also a great place to further your understanding of all the issues and information regarding LSD or any other illegal substance. A good fast read and I highly recommend this book.
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|Simple and comprehensible,
A simple and comprehensible book about psychedelics; the history, the way they work and how they work. It justly denonciates the lack of understanding and ignorance of federal institutes and the media directed paranoid public.
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