Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

A collection of transformational, awe-provoking psychedelic experiences.

In Tripping, Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life--respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies, young ravers, and accomplished writers such as John Perry Barlow, Anne Waldman, Robert Charles Wilson, Paul Devereux, and Tim Page. Taking a balanced, objective approach, the book depicts a broad spectrum of altered states, from the sublime to the terrifying. Hayes's supplemental essays provide a synopsis of the history and culture of psychedelics and a discussion of the kinetics of tripping. Specially featured is an interview with the late Terence McKenna, who was perhaps the preeminent psychedelic spokesperson of our time. A storehouse of astonishing, often otherworldly tales, Tripping is a compendium of forbidden memories that enables readers to trip vicariously or compare notes on their own experiences.

Author: Charles Hayes
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.24w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9780140195743
ISBN10: 0140195742
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Sociology | General

About the Author
Charles Hayes, a substance use disorder counselor in New York City, has been a writer/editor for a variety of businesses and organizations, a communications manager for a marketing firm, and a journalist whose work has appeared in Reason, The Oxford American, Tikkun, High Times, and E magazine. Charles can be contacted by email at trippingtales@aol.com and at his website, www.psychedelicadventures.com.