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My Psychedelic Explorations
The Healing Power and Transformational Potential of Psychoactive Substances
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Author(s) :
Claudio Naranjo
Pages :
430
Pub Date :
2020
Edition(s) at Erowid :
2020(pb,f)
Publisher :
Park Street Press
ISBN :
164411058X
BACK COVER #
In the time of the psychedelic pioneers, there were psychopharmacologists like Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, psychonauts like Aldous Huxley, and psychiatrists like Humphrey Osmond. Claudio Naranjo was all three at once. He was the first to study the psychotherapeutic applications of ayahuasca, the first to publish on the effects of ibogaine, and a long-time collaborator with Sasha Shulgin in the research behind Shulgin's famous books. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow, he worked with Leo Zeff on LSD-assisted therapy and Fritz Perls on Gestalt therapy. He was a presenter at the 1967 University of California LSD Conference and, 47 years later, gave the inaugural speech at the First International Conference on Ayahuasca in 2014. Across his career, Dr. Naranjo gathered more clinical experience in individual and group psychedelic treatment than any other psychotherapist to date. In this book, his final work, Dr. Naranjo shares his psychedelic autobiography along with previously unpublished interviews, session accounts, and research papers on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, including MDMA, ayahuasca, cannabis, iboga, and psilocybin. The book also includes Naranjo's reflections on the spiritual aspects of psychedelics and his philosophical explorations of how psychedelics act as agents of deeper consciousness.

BLURBS #
"Imagine a life that brings together the shamanic and the scientific sides of the psychedelic renaissance, the spiritual and the therapeutic, North and South, East and West. Imagine a writer who describes, with clarity and grace, the ineffable nature of the altered state. Imagine a psychedelic pioneer who is not afraid to call out the hedonism, grandiosity, and foolishness that sometimes darken this 'enlightened' community. Imagine Claudio Naranjo."
-- Don Lattin, author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club and Changing our Minds

"Naranjo's unwavering commitment to the centrality of actual experience to persoanl growth provides a unique perspective on understanding and utilizing the psychedelic drug state. A timely and most valuable contribution to the field."
-- Rick Strassman, MD, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) / EDITOR(S) #
Claudio Naranjo, M.D. (1932-2019), was a well-known psychiatrist, philosopher, professor, and university researcher from Chile. He was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard, a Guggenheim fellow at Berkeley, a council member of the Education Policy Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute, and a professor at UC Santa Cruz, the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was a pioneer in the use of psychedelics for psychotherapy and was known for his long collaboration with Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin. The author of many articles, papers, and books, his legacy lives on through the Claudio Naranjo Foundation (Fundación Claudio Naranjo).