Book Boulevard

Posted by orejones (D) on June 19, 2004 at 10:15:43

In Reply to: Hey, if you NEED drugs to escape your boring life, by all means take them. posted by dennzio on June 17, 2004 at 12:20:02:

...were once divided by Robert Graves (in "The White Goddess", or in "The second birth of Dyonissus", I think to remember) into two main groups: one, "mushroom eaters", the other one deriving their experiences of Divinity from what their priests felt after intoxicating themselves with laurel leaves?

Maybe you´d be interested in reading Huxley´s "The Doors of Perception", where he describes much of his experiences (under medical control) with hallucinogenic mushrooms. There was a second part to be written, which unfortunately was lost because of one of those fiery fires in California, which burned all the documents, but this one is more than worth reading...

And later, you could search for some documentary books describing the whole ceremony of collecting peyotl in New Mexico, which are most interesting: this is an almost millennary practice, with strict rules, and done in a very special spiritual condition...

About altered states of consciousness, simply google on those words, and you can spend a very rewarding time reading some very interesting things...

Regards

BF