Taking a trip to transcendence

‘The internet and psychedelics are catalysing the evolution of our consciousness’ David Jay Brown

That a number of expert minds are contemplating ‘psychedelic-inspired visions of the future’, to carry humanity through impending crises, inspires David Jay Brown to an effusion which is palpable and leaps off the pages of his new book Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity (Park Street Press, June, 2024).

Brown, who holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University and is a former neuroscience researcher at the University of Southern California, presents a series of timely conversations with sixteen diverse counter-culture luminaries: avant garde commentators who expound on the potential of psychedelics to ‘revolutionise reality’ for the benefit of humankind.

They include author and science journalist Graham Hancock, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, cognitive scientist and philosopher David Chalmers, professor of philosophy and religion Jeffrey Kripal, actor, comedian and podcaster Duncan Trussell, journalist and medicinal chemist Hamilton Morris and screenwriter, comic book writer and playwright Grant Morrison.

Well-connected and well-read, Brown enables us to receive valuable insights into where his interviewees are coming from, and where they’re going, how their minds work, and how, in seeking knowledge…