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Neurotransmissions: Psychedelic Essays from Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelics from Breaking Convention

Neurotransmissions: Psychedelic Essays from Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelics from Breaking Convention

by Dave King (Author), David Luke (Author), Tollan (Author), Ben Sessa (Author), Cameron Adams (Author)

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Synopsis

Neurotransmissions presents an interdisciplinary selection of 23 essays first presented at Breaking Convention 2013, the 2nd conference on psychedelic consciousness, culture and clinical research, held at the University of Greenwich, London. It spans the sciences and humanities, from philosophy and neuroscience though to chemicals. Cross-cultural approaches explore the use of psychedelics in New Guinea, Central and South America, British free festivals, electronic music and backwards in time to the ancient civilisations of India and Rome.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Published: 03 Jul 2015
ISBN 10: 190722243X
ISBN 13: 9781907222436

Author Bio
David Luke is now Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich where he teaches an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience, and is also guest lecturer on the MSc in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies at the University of Northampton. He was President of the Parapsychological Association between 2009-2011 and as a researcher he has a special interest in transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, having published over 100 academic papers in this area. Dr Luke is co-editor of Neurotransmissions: Psychedelic Essays from Breaking Convention (Strange Attractor, 2015), Talking with the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds (Daily Grail, 2014) and Breaking Convention: Essays in Psychedelic Consciousness (Strange Attractor, 2013), editor of Ecopsychology and the Psychedelic Experience (2013), and is also coauthor of the undergraduate textbook Anomalistic Psychology (2012, Palgrave Macmillan). David is also director of the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics, London, and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness.