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29
/100
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Readers
41/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Mike Jay
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Date:
April 18, 2023
A history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind
What The Reviewers Say
Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.
Jay... believes that drug experimentation facilitated the birth of “the modern mind”. But there’s no rigorous analysis of what this might mean.
Jay...demonstrate[s] that humanity’s relationship to mind-altering substances runs deep and long.
Psychonauts largely ignores the mass stupefaction of the present.
