The Expanded Mind
Don't be fooled: Benny Shanon's book about his trip to Brazil and the reality-altering drug he found there is a serious work of science
In 1991, Benny Shanon, a respected professor of psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, flew to Brazil to participate in a scientific conference. After it ended, he travelled to an Amazonian outpost called Colonia. Shanon's curiosity had been piqued by reports that members of a church in Colonia consumed a psychotropic tea called ayahuasca, brewed from two rain-forest plants. Long prized by rain-forest Indians for its visionary properties, ayahuasca has recently become a sacrament for several churches in Brazil and for a growing number of spiritual seekers in the U.S. and Europe.
Shanon ended up ingesting ayahuasca in Colonia, and the experience moved him so deeply that he spent next decade exploring the tea's significance. He drank ayahuasca himself more than 100 times in many different settings, interviewed scores of people who had done so and read all he could find on ayahuasca and other mind-altering substances. He then poured his findings and reflections into a 400-plus-page book, The Antipodes of the Mind, published in 2003.
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HEREMore and more I hear about DMT / Ayahuasca the more I think it should be used to treat addiction and psychological problems way before the anti-depressants / anti-anxiety drugs they currently have on the market.
