A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape

A bold cartography of the inner landscape visible only to those experiencing altered states

• Presents the psychedelic experience as an objective landscape that embodies the Other, rather than a subjective state of mind

• Provides corroboration of phenomena encountered by those who venture into this domain

Journeying into the invisible world revealed by his use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM (dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found that what he experienced was not simply subjective sensations and psychological states but an objective world of familiar, if inordinately odd, landmarks and characters. The running diary he kept of these voyages recounts impressions of a landscape charted by other travelers into this Inner Space and includes descriptions of many of the same phenomena recorded by such mind travelers as Terence and Dennis McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and others who have experienced the hive mind--the pool of all consciousness. Into this territory where expression is like chaos theory, where oddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl of images and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist, accepting whatever might be rather than what he hopes he might find. What emerges is not a location crafted by subjective experience, but a landscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious state in which the barriers between the self and the not-self dissolve.

Autorentext

Dan Carpenter (1963-2005) took 13 high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in the book A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgments

Foreword* by Daniel Pinchbeck

Preface

Introduction: Setting Out on the High Dose Trip

Part I: Psychedelic Passageways

Psychedelics and the Wilderness of the Mind
Dissociates

Part II: The Experiences

Trip One: 1/5/03
Multiple Personalities

**Trip Two: 2/16/03
**Of Life in the Taffy-Clouds

**Trip Three: 3/13/03
**The Diminished Importance of Emotion
Liquid Technology
Breaks in Time

Trip Four: 4/4/03
The Ego Vortex
Meeting Myselves
Visions of Strife
Dream Police
A Tour of the Brain
Reintegration of the Selves
The Dream Chamber and Some Conclusions

Trip Five: 4/24/03
Seeking Visions
The Ancestors
Near-Death Experiences
Outposts of Reality
The Buddhist Guides
Reading and Remembering
The Dead in the Hive

Trip Six: 6/10/03
The Pool of Awareness
The Face of God
The Spiral
Thought Cakes

Trip Seven: 6/11/03
More on the Ancestors
Fabrics of Families
The Machinery Behind
The Circus Behind

Trip Eight: 7/11/03
The Next Level
Offers of Power

Trip Nine: 7/25/03
Losing Humanness

Trip Ten: 8/23/03
Contacting the Dead
The Invisible Landscape
Room One
Machine Elves Solved

Trip Eleven: 1/13/04
The Sprite

**Trip Twelve: 2/2/04
**Astral Projection

Trip Thirteen: 7/10/04
The Native Americans

*Afterthoughts

Bibliography*