LEADER 03968nam 2200505 450 001 9910793139003321 005 20220324201211.0 010 $a0-19-045913-1 010 $a0-19-045914-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000006676030 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001864639 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5401045 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5401045 035 $a(OCoLC)1035256965 035 $a(PPN)230582168 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006676030 100 $a20180418d2018 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHigh culture $edrugs, mysticism, and the pursuit of transcendence in the modern world /$fChristopher Partridge$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cOxford University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a0-19-045911-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 327 $a8. Psychedelic Shamanism -- Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy -- The Long Trip and the Origin of Religion -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice? -- Alien Dreamtime -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- Index. 330 8 $aHumans 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. 606 $aHallucinogenic drugs 606 $aHallucinogenic drugs$xTherapeutic use 606 $aTranscendence (Philosophy) 615 0$aHallucinogenic drugs. 615 0$aHallucinogenic drugs$xTherapeutic use. 615 0$aTranscendence (Philosophy) 676 $a154.4 700 $aPartridge$b Christopher H$g(Christopher Hugh),$f1961-$01085717 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793139003321 996 $aHigh culture$93833450 997 $aUNINA