Mike Jay (1) (1959–)
Auteur de The Air Loom Gang
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Mike Jay, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Mike Jay
Artificial Paradises: A Drugs Reader (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (1999) — Directeur de publication — 69 exemplaires
High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture (2010) 60 exemplaires
The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius (2009) 44 exemplaires
A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine (2014) 17 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Oh Excellent Air Bag: Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799-1920 (2016) — Introduction — 7 exemplaires
Fortean Times 97 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Fortean Times 87 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Jay, Mike
- Date de naissance
- 1959-12-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Agent
- David Miller (Rogers Coleridge & White)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 648
- Popularité
- #38,952
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 46
- Langues
- 1
Jay’s title comes from the German author Ernst Jünger. In his 1949 novel Heliopolis Jünger coined the term psychonauts to refer to people who used drugs to explore their minds. Collectively, Jay’s subjects experimented with laughing gas, ether, chloroform, hashish, morphine, cocaine, mescaline and LSD. Some of his psychonauts will be familiar: Sigmund Freud, for example, who used cocaine and studied its potential therapeutic value, or Timothy Leary, who experimented with LSD. Jay also includes many less famous but equally influential self-experimenters, sharing their insights, their impacts and the reasons why their approaches fell from favour.
Advocates of self-experimentation insisted that, without trying it themselves, they could not understand a drug’s effects, given how inscrutable second-hand accounts could be. In the 1790s, one such psychonaut wrote of laughing gas that, under its influence, ‘I feel like the sound of a harp’. Many researchers hoped to experience the visions and feelings that the substances inspired, and thereby to determine the drugs’ value in treating ailments. Others saw substances as providing a portal to insights and truths otherwise unattainable or hidden. When the French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau tried hashish, for example, he concluded that ‘the inner world of dreams and the waking state of reason’ could ‘coexist and observe one another’. In 1902, the American philosopher William James claimed that our ‘waking consciousness’ was not our only consciousness.
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Elizabeth K. Gray is the author of Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2022).… (plus d'informations)