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Xenolinguistics - Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Xenolinguistics - Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Are language and consciousness co-evolving? Can psychedelic
experience cast light on this topic? In the Western world, we stand
at the dawn of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a
proliferation of new psychoactive substances, both legal and
illegal; the anthropology of ayahuasca use; and new discoveries in
ethnobotany. From scientific papers to the individual trip reports
on the Vaults of Erowid and the life work of Terence McKenna,
Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and Stanislav Grof, we are converging on
new knowledge of the mind and how to shift its functioning for
therapeutic, spiritual, problem-solving, artistic and/or
recreational purposes. In our culture, pychonautics, the practices
of individuals and small groups using techniques such as
meditation, shamanic ritual, ecstatic dance and substances such as
LSD and psilocybin for personal exploration, is a field of action
and thought in its infancy. The use of psychonautic practice as a
site of research and a method of knowledge production is central to
this work, the first in-depth book focusing on psychedelics,
consciousness, and language.
" Xenolinguistics" documents the author's eleven-year adventure of
psychonautic exploration and scholarly research; her original
intent was to understand a symbolic language system, Glide, she
acquired in an altered state of consciousness. What began as a
deeply personal search, led to the discovery of others, dubbed
xenolinguists, with their own unique linguistic objects and ideas
about language from the psychedelic sphere. The search expanded,
sifting through fields of knowledge such as anthropology and
neurophenomenology to build maps and models to contextualize these
experiences. The book presents a collection of these linguistic
artifacts, from glossolalia to alien scripts, washed ashore like
messages in bottles, signals from Psyche and the alien Others who
populate her hyperdimensional landscapes.
With an entire chapter dedicated to Terence and Dennis McKenna and
sections dedicated to numerous other xenolinguists, this book will
appeal to those interested in language/linguistics and the benefits
of psychedelic self-exploration, and to readers of science fiction.
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