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The antipodes Of the mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
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This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author’s extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca, and travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of non-ordinary states of consciousness in general.
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“Ego dissolution experiences often occur in the context of mystical states in which the ordinary sense of self is replaced by a sense of union with an ultimate reality underlying all of manifest existence—the famous ‘cosmic consciousness’ experience.”
From Self unbound: ego dissolution in psychedelic experience (2017) · cites this paper as Shanon 2002
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“Various authors have suggested that some vestiges of self-awareness are preserved in most, if not all, psychedelic experiences (Pahnke 1969; Shanon 2002)”
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- Authors
- Shanon, B.
- Corresponding author
- Shanon, Benny
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2002-11-07
- OpenAlex
- W4388055659
- Cited by
- 232
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 4.26
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- ayahuasca, altered states of consciousness, non-ordinary states of consciousness, shamanism, indigenous peoples, religious sects, psychedelic experience, philosophy of mind
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