The New Psychedelic Revolution: The Genesis of the Visionary Age

James Oroc, the author of Tryptamine Palace, is an accomplished extreme-sports journalist, photographer, and contributor to the MAPS Journal and Reality Sandwich. He travels the world speaking at entheogenic conferences and transformational festivals. When not traveling, he lives in both the Dominican Republic and New Orleans. PART ONE The Second Psychedelic Revolution 1 The End of Acid? 2 Alexander Sasha Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics 3 Terence McKenna: The Rise of the Plant Shaman 4 Alex Grey: The Mystic-Artist 5 A Short Psychedelic History of the World 6 A New Earth? The Dawn of the Visionary Age PART TWO What Can Entheogens Teach Us? Psychedelic Culture in the Twenty-first Century 7 Where Is God in the Entheogenic Movement? 8 5-MeO-DMT: Visions of a Quantum God 9 The Future of Psychedelics 10 Psychedelics and Extreme Sports 11 What Can Entheogens Teach Us? Introducing the Oroc Entheogen Scale 12 Living in Dangerous Times PART THREE Dreaming of the Light A Brief History of Visionary Art and Culture Introduction: What is Visionary Art? 13 Primitive and Ancient Visionary Art 14 Visionary Art in Medieval Christianity and the Renaissance 15 The Genesis of Visionary Art: William Blake and the Romantics 16 Studies in Light: Impressionism, Van Gogh, and the Birth of Modern Art 17 Surrealism, Salvador Dal, and the Roots of Modern Psychedelic Culture 18 PostWorld War II: Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism 19 Psychiatrys Darling: The (Brief) Science of Psychedelics and Creativity 20 The First Psychedelic Revolution: Art in the 1960s and 1970s 21 Modern Art in the 1960s: Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol 22 The Architects of Contemporary Visionary Art: Robert Venosa and Alex Grey 23 The Collectors: Mark McCloud and Jacaeber Kastor 24 New Psychedelic Tribes: BOOM! and Burning Man 25 Performance Art and Psychedelic Culture 26 The Birth of Transformational Festivals and Visionary Culture 27 The InterDimensional Art Show and the Tribe 13 Collective 28 The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors 29 New Perspectives: MOKSHA, Alchemeyez, and The Temple of Visions 30 A FractalNation 31 Beyond 2012: Creating the Visionary Age 32 Akshardham: The Visionary Wonder of the World 33 Dreaming of the Light: The Promise of Visionary Art and Culture 34 The Furtherrr Collective and Other Important Contemporary Visionary Artists PART FOUR Accidental Ingestions, Amazonian Overdoses, and Other Reports from the Front Lines 35 A Pilgrimage to the Dance Temple: My Journey to BOOM! 36 An Accidental Visionary Experience 37 The Psy-Fi Chronicles: A Harsh Encounter with Rap 38 A Death on the Playa Acknowledgments Bibliography Index