03968nam 2200505 450 991082824290332120220324201211.00-19-045913-10-19-045914-X(CKB)4100000006676030(StDuBDS)EDZ0001864639(MiAaPQ)EBC5401045(Au-PeEL)EBL5401045(OCoLC)1035256965(PPN)230582168(EXLCZ)99410000000667603020180418d2018 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHigh culture drugs, mysticism, and the pursuit of transcendence in the modern world /Christopher Partridge[electronic resource]New York, NY :Oxford University Press,2018.1 online resourcePreviously issued in print: 2018.0-19-045911-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- High Culture -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Technologies of Transcendence -- Technologies of the Self -- Psychedelic Gnosis and the Transcendence of Ordinary Consciousness -- Perennialism and the Experience of Oneness -- Shamanism and Ekstasis -- Concluding Analysis: The Drug Problem? -- 2. Opium Dreams -- Opium in Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century: Some Background Notes -- The Art of Dreaming -- The English Opium-​Eater -- Opium and the Orient: Fear and Fascination -- Concluding Comments -- 3. Anesthetic Revelation -- A Ladder to the Heaven of Heavens -- Syntax, Surgery, and Celestial Visions -- Benjamin Blood's Anesthetic Revelation -- Anesthesia and the Society for Psychical Research -- Concluding Comments -- 4. Hashishdom -- Cannabis and Clinical Research in the Nineteenth Century -- The Old Man of the Mountain and the Assassins -- Artificial Paradises -- The American Hashish-​Eater -- Concluding Comments -- 5. Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Mesmerism, Hashish, and Somnambulism -- Dowameskh, the Orient, and Neoplatonic Esotericism -- Abstinence and Ambivalence -- Theosophical Reflection -- Discourses of Decadence -- W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Drugs, and Fin de Siècle Occultism -- The Highs and Lows of a Drug Fiend -- A Note on Drugs and Post-​Crowleyan Thelemic Thought -- Concluding Comments -- 6. The Antipodes of the Mind -- Psychedelic Research: Some Background Notes -- A Mystic and a Scientist -- Mysticism, Sacred, and Profane -- Concluding Comments -- 7. Revolution in the Head -- Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness -- A Religious Set and Setting -- Notes on the Counterculture -- Millbrook and Psychedelic Religion -- The Neo-​American Church -- The Psychedelic Sacrament -- Turning On and Turning East -- Concluding Comments.8. Psychedelic Shamanism -- Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy -- The Long Trip and the Origin of Religion -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice? -- Alien Dreamtime -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- Index.Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this work traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.Hallucinogenic drugsHallucinogenic drugsTherapeutic useTranscendence (Philosophy)Hallucinogenic drugs.Hallucinogenic drugsTherapeutic use.Transcendence (Philosophy)154.4Partridge Christopher H(Christopher Hugh),1961-1085717StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910828242903321High culture3930982UNINA