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In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings in order to test the claims being made for these mysterious plants and compounds, while exposing their limitlessly fascinating possibilities. ____ The more we learn about psychedelics, the less we seem to understand them. Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'breakthrough therapy' in the treatment of mental illness. What were dangerous portals to the unknown are now an instrument for healing trauma, conquering addiction and enhancing well-being. But treating psychedelics this way neglects what is so unusual and valuable about them - not least the variety of the psychedelic experience itself. In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different drugs in ten different locations. His journey from a neuroimaging lab in London to the desert of Colombia, via Silicon Valley and his friend's basement kitchen reveals a richer, stranger view. Through his encounters with scientists and gangsters, psychonauts and shamans, with musicians, monks, therapists and con-men, we see psychedelics' full potential: for healing and trauma, for ecstatic one-ness and utter terror, for transcendence and corruption, profundity and laughter. He argues that by removing psychedelics from their cultures and rituals, both indigenous and underground, we risk rejecting the expertise and the contexts which hold the key to understanding them and from which their real benefits may derive. To make psychedelics safe or normal might ultimately destroy what makes them potent. Their promise is indeed huge, not as an antidote to mental illness but as a way of changing our whole perspective on mental health and flourishing. Ultimately, psychedelics may also be what drugs always have been - a way to escape an unbearable reality. But treated properly, with humility and care, they are a way to reenchant us with the world
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