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The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience Benny Shanon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

I often think of Benny Shanon's book, “The Antipodes of the Mind,” in which he attempts to chart the entire phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience through a very rigorous scientific methodology. The active ingredients in Banisteriopsis caapi inhibit the stomach enzyme, enabling the N,N-dimethyltrypamine to enter the brain. Ayahuasca is a brew of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. Shanon's The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience intentionally hybridizes cognitive psychology and psychedelics. DMT when consumed in combination with them, as in ayahuasca. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Professor Benny Shannon. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience. In some ways, the very composite nature of the city of Iquitos, the phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience, and the intentions, preconceptions, and agencies of the persons involved reflect one another, producing a unique sense of place. Indeed, several psychedelic- neurochemical models, discussed in the following sections (also see Luke & Friedman, 2010), have been proposed, primarily based upon subjective paranormal experiences occurring with . I've just started reading Benny Shanon's 'The Antipodes of the Mind - Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience'. The book deals with one of the more significant botanical brews that we have ever discovered: The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Benny Shanon. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Benny Shanon, a cognitive psychologist is the first, and perhaps only, psychologist to attempt to chart the phenomenological ayahuasca experience from a psychological perspective (Shanon, 2002). He is author of the 2002 book Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience published by Oxford University Press. The strength of the book lies in the rich descriptions and analyses of the ayahuasca experience . Ingested visionary tryptamines like DMT or 5-MeO-. Shanon is one of the world's top researchers on Ayahuasca from a Western psychological perspective.