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ENTHEOGENS / PSYCHOLOGY

“Dan Carpenter’s forays into the fractal hyperspace and hive minds of the DXM realms offer a serious contribution to contemporary psychedelic thought. His work follows in the tradition of inner-space investigators such as Coleridge, Antonin Artaud, Aldous Huxley, and Terence McKenna. This will be a ‘must-read’ for every serious psychonaut.”
--Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“Like that of the intrepid scout who surveys the fantastical geography of new worlds for others too timid to venture first, Carpenter’s service will be honored and remembered.”
--Charles Hayes, author of Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

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.

DAN CARPENTER (1963-2005) took thirteen high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in this book.

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ISBN-13: 9781594770906
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date: 4/28/2006
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 639,887
Product dimensions: 6.06 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.36 (d)

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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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A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape

The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience

By Dan Carpenter

Park Street Press

Trip Two

Of Life in the Taffy-Clouds

My second trip was a 1200 mg ride into a swirling colored-plastic mindscape during which I found myself privy to the very workings of my brain--an insider's view--which left me sad and horrified and exuberant. I had read about the phenomenon of ego-loss in many trip reports and I thought I knew what people were talking about from my dabblings with LSD over the years. I didn't. What happened to my sense of self while on high doses of DXM forced a fundamental deviation in what I had believed I understood "me" to be. I glimpsed the underpinnings of who or what is in charge of the brain.

I cover the experiences in the order that the trips were taken. With each trip I encountered more and more profound things and I became better and better at navigating the realms I would find myself in. The trips were done lying down with eyes closed for most of their duration.

Notes 2/16/03: The DXM trip doesn't feel like astral realms. I tried to project and found myself hopelessly in my head. I am convinced that the machinelike workings I was witnessing were inside my brain. As the doses kick in(about 200 mg every twenty minutes) "thick" taffylike, vaporous light churns and spills like lava in 0 gravity. . . .

At first I wondered if these "thick lights" or "mind taffy" (which is often reported) was a sort of thought potential--thoughts in waiting, that I was witnessing from my vantage point, feeling completely disconnected from these things, yet knowing they were me! Later, as the effects wore off, I could still see them faintly, (with eyes closed) and I could see that they were made up of thousands (millions?) of individual strands of light, like a fiber-optic cable. I thought that I must be seeing the retina at work, or "I" was somewhere in the brain where awareness processes sight.

Notes: I make a mental note: Everywhere I look I am seeing with peripheral vision. I can see perfectly, every detail, but I can't stare directly at anything--with "what" am I seeing?

In my dream logs I have recorded my "scientific" approach in lucid dreams, where, instead of moving into the landscape searching for adventure, I would check to see if surfaces like a tree or wall were "hard" to the touch (they always were). Or, to see if I am "making-up" the scene, I would inspect things like paint flecks on a window sill, or tiny pebbles and grains of dirt on a road. (The paint flecks and tiny grains were there, perceived absolutely as if I were using my physical eyes.) In doing this close observation, it never occurred to me to check if I was able to look directly at a pebble say, because I could . . . stare straight at it as if I were looking at it or handling it in the "real" world. After discovering that everything I was seeing was peripheral in the DXM realm, I paid special attention the next time I had a lucid dream--and yes, I was perfectly able to look directly at any detail. The conclusion: the mechanism with which I was "seeing" on DXM is not the same one as is utilized during lucid dreaming.

Notes: Beyond the taffy-clouds I settled into the trip and I encountered the Golden Wall, something I've read about more than once in trip reports. It is a huge barrier of shimmering yellow light. I can bring the Wall into range by "staring" at one spot on its surface. As I come right up against it I can see minute detail--it is not smooth but bumpy and pitted and does not change. When I stop against the side of it my attention gives way and I'm back in my bed, where I close my eyes again. . . .

I hadn't at this point developed a solid idea as to what this wall might be. I though it might be a visual manifestation of the Memory Barrier that causes the memory of dreams or insight gleaned during the psychedelic experience to be squelched even as one tries to assimilate them into everyday reality. This might be part of the story with the Wall, but later I found a further connection between it and the way memory is stored in the brain.

Notes: In the caverns of taffy; I have begun to notice tiny lights and shapes that seem to be knowing, aware molecule-like things. They are perfectly defined, moving in orbits and performing maneuvers and tasks.

In and beyond the Taffy-Clouds these "molecules" abound and I would later "see" them during every trip. Right away it is apparent that these things are doing . . . performing tasks in tight choreographic maneuvers--going about their duties in a very animated and no-nonsense way. They are brightly colored, sometimes striped blue and black, or yellow and red--every color is represented in some part of their dance. They come circular or barrel shaped, amid tendrils of green plasma, and at times whole clouds of tiny light spots will cluster and move together like a school of fish, glowing like neon orbs. I am reminded of what electrons might look like in a computer program if one could observe them in action. From my first encounter with these things, I knew without any reservations that I was "seeing" life. Were these things me? A part of my brain, or some Other?

Continues...

Excerpted from A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape by Dan Carpenter Copyright ©2006 by Dan Carpenter. Excerpted by permission.
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Acknowledgments

Foreword by Daniel Pinchbeck

Preface

Introduction: Setting Out on the High Dose Trip

Part I: Psychedelic Passageways

Psychedelics and the Wilderness of the Mind Dissociates

Part II: The Experiences

Trip One: 1/5/03
Multiple Personalities

Trip Two: 2/16/03
Of Life in the Taffy-Clouds

Trip Three: 3/13/03
The Diminished Importance of Emotion Liquid Technology Breaks in Time

Trip Four: 4/4/03
The Ego Vortex Meeting Myselves Visions of Strife Dream Police A Tour of the Brain Reintegration of the Selves The Dream Chamber and Some Conclusions

Trip Five: 4/24/03
Seeking Visions The Ancestors Near-Death Experiences Outposts of Reality The Buddhist Guides Reading and Remembering
The Dead in the Hive

Trip Six: 6/10/03
The Pool of Awareness The Face of God The Spiral Thought Cakes

Trip Seven: 6/11/03
More on the Ancestors Fabrics of Families The Machinery Behind The Circus Behind

Trip Eight: 7/11/03
The Next Level Offers of Power

Trip Nine: 7/25/03
Losing Humanness

Trip Ten: 8/23/03
Contacting the Dead The Invisible Landscape Room One Machine Elves Solved

Trip Eleven: 1/13/04
The Sprite

Trip Twelve: 2/2/04
Astral Projection

Trip Thirteen: 7/10/04
The Native Americans

Afterthoughts

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CarolCarpenter

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The intelligence, searching, sensitivity but ultimate loss of my son due to wanting all the answers before we should probably know them is called heartbreak I recommend reading this book because there is much to consider as possible.

This is Mother's Day. Daniel Carpenter is my son, but he is gone physically from me. I can not hug him anymore. I can not laugh at his sense of humor anymore. I can not begin to express the pain of losing him. He wrote this book with sincerity in what he believed was the truth having found it in the use of DXM. I do not doubt his personal belief, but I do doubt very much that the use of DXM provided the real answers that he seemed desperate to seek. I will always be proud of his writing ability. He was a talented musician, artist and writer. As he states in the book, he used his own brain as a laboratory. He took his searching too far and paid the ultimate price for it. He lost his will to live. I believe people who experiment with such things as DXM even though in a controlled, systematic way are in peril. Some day his findings may be proven as truth, but to lose yourself to find truth is a waste of a life that is precious. It has been almost 6 yrs. since he took his life, and it seems like yesterday. I was compelled to write this tonight for what it's worth to anyone. Thank you.! Carol Carpenter
P.S. I treasure his Mother's Day poems written just for me with his drawings on his personal cards.
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