The Big and Dandy Psychedelic Books Thread
This brand new book by the best-selling author is absolutely fascinating, as I discovered by listening to his interview from November 1 2005 on coasttocoastam.com:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/11/01.html
Graham Hancock describes his 11 experiences taking Ayahuasca in the amazon among Shamans, the link between psychedelic experiences of people who take dmt & ayahuasca & mushrooms and communication from transdimensional beings from possible other dimensions or the spirit world while people are in these other states of consciousness. He likens the brain to a tv receiver that is normally tuned to "station normal" but when a person enters an altered state, they are tuned to another reality and can even receive communication from these beings, or ancient teachers of mankind that even left there mark some 35,000 years ago when Graham postulates that human beings acquired a form of consciousness that makes humans who they are today.
Graham Hancock doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. He actually took Ayahuasca for 5 weeks and didn't just speculate about it.
The book is some 500 plus pages and takes about 6 to 10 days to be delivered from amazon.uk. It won't be published in the US until 2006 but is about $35.00 if ordered by air mail from overseas.
Graham in his 3 hour interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast refers to Rick Strassman and Bud Hopkins, John Mack, and many others in this remarkable interview. I have no affiliation with Graham Hancock or the sale of his book, but I have read his other book "The Fingerprint of the gods" and "the message of the Sphinx".
I believe you can also download his Nov 1 2005 interview from Bearshare or other places, possibly even soulseek if you search hard enough asuming you allready own the original interview, which can be downloaded as mp3 from coasttocoastam.com for about $7.95 for a one month trial subscription which can be cancelled at any time.
I also enjoyed the other following interviews:
August 22 2005: Cydonia Symbols (Mars Pyramid & Sphinx) with Hoagland
Spet 29 2005: Borders of Reality with Cliff Pickover who discusses DMT and psychedelics and has also released a new book entitled "Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves."
Oct 24 2005: Prof Lawrence Krauss discusses New Dimensions & Cosmology.
Oct 17 2005: The Life of Tesla
An older Interview from March 28 2005 or so with the author of "Breaking open the Head" Daniel Pinchbeck who talks about his experiences taking various psychedelics. Try downloading this 3 hour interview from a file sharing network (listed above)as it is past 90 days old and can no longer be downloaded from coast to coast.
Here is a link to Graham's new book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN...3817773-7067006