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A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience

dan carpenter daniel pinchbeck

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A bold cartography of the inner landscape visible only to those experiencing altered states

• Presents the psychedelic experience as an objective landscape that embodies the Other, rather than a subjective state of mind

• Provides corroboration of phenomena encountered by those who venture into this domain

Journeying into the invisible world revealed by his use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM (dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found that what he experienced was not simply subjective sensations and psychological states but an objective world of familiar, if inordinately odd, landmarks and characters. The running diary he kept of these voyages recounts impressions of a landscape charted by other travelers into this Inner Space and includes descriptions of many of the same phenomena recorded by such mind travelers as Terence and Dennis McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and others who have experienced the hive mind--the pool of all consciousness. Into this territory where expression is like chaos theory, where oddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl of images and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist, accepting whatever might be rather than what he hopes he might find. What emerges is not a location crafted by subjective experience, but a landscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious state in which the barriers between the self and the not-self dissolve.

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 14,2006

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128 pages, Paperback
Published
February 14, 2006 by Park Street Press
ISBN
9781594770906
ASIN
1594770905
Language
English

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dan carpenter

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Dan Carpenter (1963-2005) took 13 high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in the book A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape.

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Aquarius99
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April 1,2025
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I've been to some of the same locations that Dan talks about, and his descriptions are very good. He makes repeated journeys through the veil and over there to where the others are. Then carefully analyzes the experiences. It's amazing that he managed to remember these nuances; they are difficult to bring back.

The implications of his journeys are very exciting. He contends that it is not his brain, but rather he is going to a real Other place and interacting with real Other beings.
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helaynia
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April 1,2025
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It was alright, but did not talk at all about the huge topics of morphing, time expansion, and outer-space marionetting, which are all major components of DXM. So it was also a bit disappointing for anyone with a lot of experience, and lacking some primary information for anyone without. But it also had some good information.
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