Mystery School in Hyperspace Audiobook Libro.fm

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Since the mid1950s the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists prohibitionists scientists artists alchemists and hyperspace emissaries Mystery School in Hyperspace is the first book to delve into the history of this substance the discovery of its properties and the impact it has had on poets artists and musicians

DMT has appeared at crucial junctures in countercultural history William Burroughs was jacking the spice in Tangier at the turn of the 1960s It was present at the meeting between Ken Keseys Merry Pranksters and Tim Learys associates It guided the inception of the Grateful Dead in 1965 It showed up in Berkeley in the same year falling into the hands of Terence McKenna who would eventually become its champion in the postrave neopsychedelic movement of the 1990s Its indole vapor drifted through Portugals Boom Festival and has been evident at Nevadas Burning Man where DMT has been adopted as spiritual technology supplying shape color and depth to a visionary art movement The growing prevalence of use is evident in a vast networked independent research culture and in its impact on fiction film music and metaphysics As this book traces the effect of DMTs release into the cultural bloodstream the results should be of great interest to contemporary audiences