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TRIPPING:
AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE-LIFE PSYCHEDELIC ADVENTURES
by Charles Hayes
CONTENTS
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Note to the Reader
Preface
PART I
INTRODUCTION
1. The Psychedelic [in] Society: A Brief Cultural
History of Tripping
2. Basic Features of the Psychedelic Experience
3. Methodology and Perspectives Used in the Making of
This Book
PART II
THE NARRATIVES
(Names with surnames are actual, except where noted,
while most with
first names only are pseudonymous.)
1. Aaron: Trawling the ghost
stream
2. Alice Dee
(pseudonym): Highway to the sky: The road seen only by the dreamer
3. Anne Waldman:
Point and click: Icons in the window to the ancestral manse
4. Brendan: Pealing
faces
5. Bruce Eisner: Dazed
in the desert at the end of time
6. Carl: The wat of the
world
7. Charles Hayes: Eat
the moment (and other stories)
8. Charlie: That's when
I realized I was out of my senses
9. Clark Heinrich:
Heaven (and another story)
10. Daniel: I realized
I was dead
11. Dennis: They don't
show you all this on the top of the mountain just to destroy you on your way
down
12. Fiona: Unbridled
13. George:
Saved by the belle (and other stories)
14. Gregory: Sinister
toys and the Internet of souls
15. Henry Bass:
Hallucinating the horror of sobriety
16. Herbie Greene: Ride
the snake and break on through [or] Crashing the snake dance
17. Jack: The pinball
machine I could play without feeding it coins
18. James: Hell's den
and Pan's glen (and other stories)
19. Jarl: An early
absolution
20. Jason:
The orgasm death dance (and other stories)
21. Jeremy: The schlomus:
The price of a moment's doubt
22. John Perry
Barlow: My first trip
23. Julian: An
awakening from within
24. Kate Coleman: Then
the emotions started happening
25. Keely Stahl: The
menacing orgasm that almost melted me away
26. Keith: First
communion with life
27. Kenny:
How can I die if I'm not here? (and other stories)
28. Kevin: To either
die or come
29. Lena: I've
definitely been psychotic
30. Leonard Gibson:
Portals of flame, petals of the lotus blossom
31. Leonard Mercado:
Psychedelic terra firma
32. Malcolm: The
Psychedelic is the Creator
33. Marcel: Is this a
trap or a welcome?
34. Mark: Sounding the
black box of the subconscious
35. Mark Fischer: Over
the spillway
36. Matthew S. Kent: Maha maya: The V
in my path
37. Megan: A blink of
rabbit fur
38. Paul Devereux: Do I
want to be seeing this?
39. Peter: Everything
else was normal (and other stories)
40. Philip Cooper: The
Cathedral of San Pedro the Divine
41. Reverend
Marianne: The vision made it real (and other stories)
42. Robert Bell: I had
a theory who I was (and another story)
43. Robert Charles
Wilson: The immigrant's landing
44. Ruth: The
apostate's homecoming
45. Sarah: Our Lady of
the Eastern Star
46. Stephen Kessler:
The initiate
47. Steve Silberman:
The organismic display monitor
48. Steven Martin
Cohen: A thousand cruise missiles pointed straight at my brain stem
49. Terry: Loosing the
hounds of war
50. Tim Page: Memoirs
of an acid-salved war photographer
PART III
A CONVERSATION WITH TERENCE MCKENNA
Appendix: A Concise Index of Psychedelic Substances
Notes
Bibliography and Resources (including Websites)
Acknowledgments
Index
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