Ten Trips review: What tripping taught an academic about psychedelics


Men preparing the root and the leaves to be cooked together for the preparation of Ayahuasca tea. (Photo by: Giulio Paletta/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Making ready the psychedelic ayahuasca – however will Indigenous teams profit?

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Ten Journeys
Andy Mitchell (Bodley Head)

DESCRIBING your psychedelic journey to different individuals is notoriously uninteresting. Poet or not, there’ll all the time be a spot between the uncooked expertise of LSD or magic mushrooms, and a second-hand metaphor.

So it was with hesitation that I picked up neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell’s ebook Ten Journeys: The brand new actuality of psychedelics, detailing his private journey. In a couple of months, Mitchell spends a number of hundred hours taking 10 medication as “a douchey forty-nine-year-old psychedelic virgin”.

However his …