Full Description
The first authoritative study of the important role of music in psychedelic use and the ways in which psychedelics provide unprecedented access to the deeper mysteries of music.
Tuning In is the first authoritative study of a subject that is of wide and growing importance within the current psychedelic renaissance: the role and experience of music in personal growth and healing via psychedelics. The book brings together the best insights and creative musings on the subject from respected figures within the psychedelic community. Going back several decades (and beyond), this book includes first-hand testimony from numerous "trip reports," along with relevant insights from psychologists, scientists, philosophers, scholars of religion, musicologists, musicians, and mystics. Tuning In takes an experiential approach to understanding the unique synergy between psychedelic states and music: how music profoundly supports and enhances psychedelic sessions while psychedelic states provide a unique doorway into the inner mysteries of music. Author Steven J. Gelberg includes helpful guidance in assessing and choosing music appropriate for psychedelic sessions, along with links to curated music playlists.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: Autobiographical Reflections on Psychedelics
Introduction: Music and Psychedelics: A Sacred Synergy
1. What Is a "Psychedelic Experience"?
2. Expressing the Inexpressible: Music as Mysticism
3. Beginner's Mind and "Letting Go"
4. Timelessness, Hypersensitivity, and "Becoming" the Music
5. Music, Emotion, and Aesthetic Ecstasy
6. Music, Creator of Worlds: Synesthesia and Eidetic Visions
7. Music from "Nowhere": Hallucinating Music
8. Music in Psychedelic Psychotherapy
9. It's Subjective: Choosing Music
10. Is Classical Music Still Relevant?
11. Ambient Music for Psychedelic States
12. "World Music" and the Collective Unconscious
13. Sound Alternatives to Music: The Music of Nature and "White Noise"
Epilogue
Appendix I: Spotify Playlists for Psychedelic Sessions
Appendix II: Abbreviated Versions of Select Spotify Playlists
Notes
Bibliography
Index
