…this is a psychological book, not a philosophical one. The philosophical questions—or rather, puzzles—that Ayahuasca raises are manifold and they deserve to be treated separately. Yet some philosophical questions are so directly linked to the psychological data that has been reviewed that I cannot conclude this book without at least making some mention of them. —Benny Shanon, The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience #book #psychology #philosophy