Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition - Softcover

Marcus Ashley Rummery; Frank Ogden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634240995 ISBN 13: 9781634240994

Publisher: Trine Day, 2016

Synopsis

Freud used to say dreams were the ""royal road"" to the unconscious but psychedelics are a superhighway, we all have access to our own experiences but Frank Ogden gives access to almost a thousand people's experiences. What is presented isn't the false self projected to the world or the false self projected to ourselves, but the howling unconscious uncontained and released from the chemical constraints that restrict it. If one wants to know what's in the unconscious at least of the thousand or subjects at Hollywood Hospital here is the chance to find out. Written in the simple but vivid style Frank popularized with his 1994 Canadian five time bestseller The Last Book You'll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain, shamanism with the real world examples of Hollywood Hospital as verification. From there the book looks forward using, fusing and extending the theories of the two pre-eminent psychedelic theoreticians Drs. Timothy Leary and Stan Grof as a jumping off point to consider the future of drugs and the brain.

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Review:

"Here is a highly readable account of how Canadian scientists and artists and enthusiasts have been world leaders in the consciousness revolution . Marcus Rummery s book will be recognized as the standard contribution to the field. Reading it is not only a consciousness-raising experience, but it also a hair-raising experience." John Robert Colombo, Canadian author, editor and poet"

"Ogden and Rummery delve into a history that s endangered to be forgotten, repressed, marginalized. At this time of psychedelic and entheogenic re-awakening their book is an invaluable resource." Andrew Feldmar, psychotherapist, co-investigator (with Dr. Ingrid Pacey) in Vancouver s MDMA and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder study"

"This book contains vivid first-hand accounts of psychedelic insights and offers a reappraisal of the true value of those experiences, both it terms of treatment and personal growth. Drawing extensively on co-author Frank Ogden s experiences, it also provides a rich description of the infamous Hollywood Hospital addiction treatments with LSD, of which Ogden played a historic role a story that needs to be told. Rummery explores a cast of familiar characters and offers compelling evidence to suggest LSD deserves a second chance." Erica Dyck, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, The University of Saskatchewan; author, Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus"

About the Author:

Frank Ogden was educated in Canada and the United States and served in World War II. During the 1960s, he joined a medical team researching LSD at Hollywood Hospital. He helped found Canada's first think-tank, taught at the Ontario College of Art and the New England School of Art in Boston, and was a founding member of the World Future Society in Canada. Frank has been profiled on numerous TV and radio stations and in newspapers and magazines around the globe, including: CNN, PBS, CBC, Forbes, LA Times, Globe & Mail, Washington Post; U.S. News & World Report; Toronto Sun, and Financial Times. Frank passed away in 2012. Marcus Rummeryhas been an artist all of his life. A member of numerous bands and comedy troops, he began performing stand-up comedy in 1996. He has performed all across Canada and been featured on CBC Radio s Definitely Not the Opera. In 2002 he became certified to teach Bikram s Method Hot Yoga, and since 2014 has taught his own yoga called Hot Prana. In 2008 produced the film, Big Medicine the Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. Marcus lives in Vancouver Canada."

About this edition

• Publisher: Trine Day
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1634240995
• ISBN 13: 9781634240994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240