Author: SHANON, B.,
Title: The Antipodes of the Mind. Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience.
Description: Oxford University Press, 2002. 488p. Hardback. Benny Shanon is an Israeli cognitive psychologist who has taken the psychoactive hallucinogen ayahuasca well over one hundred times. His book The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience is a scholarly attempt to describe its effects both through a survey of participants and through descriptions of his own extensive experiences. The book is a mine of information about how the mind processes information, sense data, and concepts under abnormal conditions. Shanon does not disguise his enthusiasm for ayahuasca, but he attempts to maintain a disinterested and naturalistic stance.' (DAVID AUERBACH, Waggish, 21.10.2011).

Keywords: 9780199252923