Trip
Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 1, 2018
Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation.
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- Who it’s for
- Memoir and cultural history meet in a searching account of psychedelics, alienation, and changing beliefs.
- Themes
- Psychedelics and culture, Recovery and changing worldviews, Art, death, and the imagination
- Genres
- Sacred Plants & Entheogens, Personal Memoirs, Mind & Body
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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original. While reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna.
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McKenna, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip, Lin's first book-length work of nonfiction, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs, his surprising and positive change in worldview, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? In exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin, DMT, salvia, and cannabis, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature, his own past, psychedelic culture, and the unknown.
Psychedelic Questions
Memoir and cultural history meet in a searching account of psychedelics, alienation, and changing beliefs.
Come here for
- Questions about art, language, death, and the imagination
- Literary reflection on psychedelic culture and alienation
Expect
- Personal experience braided with history and inquiry
- A journey through the author’s past, nature, and the unknown
Where it sits
| Sacred Plants & Entheogens | 87% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 43% |
| Mind & Body | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Activist Lives
- Psychiatric Medications
- Authors
- Tao Lin
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- May 1, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Psychedelics and culture · Recovery and changing worldviews · Art, death, and the imagination
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs