[review can be found here]

http://realitysandwich.com/217121/psychedelic-plato-a-review-of-patrick-lumborgs-vibed-out-book-psychedelia/


I've almost completed reading this beauty of a book and would highly recommend it to anyone here. Lundborg did an incredibly amazing and thorough work researching all aspects of psychedelic history, from Eleusis to present day use. Of particular interest to me was the manner in which he demystified the connection between psychedelics and eastern religious traditions, a topic that seems to pop up here rather frequently. Here's a pretty good interview with Lundborg recently posted on realitysandwhich.com that gives more insight into his writing


http://realitysandwich.c...-patrick-lundborg-r-i-p/



Unfortunately, it does seem that he passed away at the tender age of 47 earlier this month. RIP Patrick Lundborg.

I saw the same article on reality sandwich and just started reading his latest book Psychedelia. I find it to be very interesting and am saddened that Lundberg died at such a early age.

In the interview I like the fact that he refuses to compare the psychedelic experience to anything else like for instance the Eastern tradition. That's what he also talks about early on in the book stating more then 20 different things that psychedelics have been compared to.

The only thing that I was wondering is how he would explain the recent reasearch about a psychedelic brain having the same areas activated as a dreaming brain and (if I'm not mistaken) a meditating brain. Maybe there is more between these things than we may know. I don't know if he tackles this question in the book, but unfortunately we won't be able to ask him.

I think this is a great loss for the psychedelic community and like Inaniel I would advise the book to anyone.