Get High Now (without drugs)
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: James Nestor
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Release Date: September 2009
- ISBN-10: 0811867137
- ISBN-13: 9780811867139
- List Price: $14.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryGet High Now is an illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness without drugs or alcohol. Culled from science, physiology, spiritual practices, and the audio visual arts, these 'all natural' highs playfully and safely explore the mind-body connection to entertaining and illuminating effect. Accessible and well-researched, each entry introduces concepts such as lucid dreaming, optical and auditory illusions, controlled breathing, meditation, time compression, and physical and mental exercises, explaining the ways in which they affect our minds and bodies and how to do them. Readers follow the author and his 'HighLab' testing team through mind-bending and sometimes hilarious investigations, such as how to lull the mind into hallucinatory states with audio loops; why multiple bee stings lead to euphoric states; what cheeses to eat to induce psychedelic lucid dreams; how to control your breathing to create an out-of-body experience; and many more. Including solo, tandem, and group highs, Get High Now features hundreds of ways to calm or stimulate the senses and open new windows to experiencing the world. |
Customer Reviews
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I have personally tried techniques to induce out-of-body experience without drugs. I learned them from books by Waldo Vieira (Projectiology), William Bulhman, and others. I also took training classes at International Academy of Consciousness. It really is possible. And I didn't have any such experiences before. Of course, I am still in a process of increasing the frequency and sophistication of the experiences.
But I think the most important thing is not the "high" or stress relief. The real question: Is the out-of-body experience just another altered state like dreams? Or is it something ** real **?
Research on this topic has already begun and I find it highly suggestive of the hypothesis that the OBE is real. Above all, my own experiences of confirmed details have convinced me as a matter of factual knowledge.
Great book, fun reading, wild experiments
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After hearing the interview on Coast to Coast AM radio, this book was a must have. The online link experiments were very trippy. I highly recommend this book.
It's Only Natural
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If there is a scrap of the rebel left within you (I got heaps), if you've ever wanted to meet Dr. Charles T. Tart (I had breakfast with him), if you've ever been a psychonaut (I still am one): you simply must buy this book. Jam packed full of every non-drug means of addling your brain, tweaking, zonking, wigging out and tripping the light fantastic, Get High Now provides opportunities to enter altered states previously unthinked of.
Kriya breathing? Check. Hypnagogic Inductions? Present. Centaur-Level Transmogrification? Here! Exposure to Inescapable Physical Trauma? Got it! Russian Reindeer That Have Just Ingested Urine and Eaten Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms! You'd Better Believe It! (Seriously, those are all actual entries in the book.) And I'll be a hyper-evolved simian's paternal sibling if they don't work! I just spent a half hour practicing Left/Right Brain Counterintuition Discourse and Non-Sexual Public Nudity and I could barely form complete sentences for 10 minutes!!!
Do as Timothy Leary says, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
PS. many of these can be practiced in the office. 'Nuff said.
I'm High on How to Get High!
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This is a very entertaining and informative book. The author's no-nonsense (yet funny) style throws one tidbit after another at the reader. There are literally more highs than I have time left in my remaining years to to experiment with.
One story deserves to be told, though: wind roughing. How to get high acting like your mutt. You know, how many times have you seen a station wagon going down the road with a dog's head hanging out ears all a-flapping. Well, we can do that, too, in our own way. The author describes several cars and how to get the passengers to experience the whop-whop-whop of air blowing in the passenger cabin when one window, or another, is lowered just-so-much. One funny example was a Jetta which blew out their ears, almost. Another, a VW bus, was the subject of an experimental fine-tuning to enhance the whop-whop-whop but broke down before achieving success. Seems you can get quite high, dizzy, delirious or what-not doing this. I have to try it with my wife someday.
Then we go to ants, leaves, breathing - all sorts of things. Look, if you can laugh at yourself and your fellowman, you'll get a real, big bang out of this book that I first heard of while listening to Coast-to-Coast AM's midnight insomnia group therapy session.
Tapping Into Our Senses
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James Nestor has compiled over 175 ways to get high, without the expense, legal ramifications and/or risk to your health that comes from the doing the other stuff. Ironically, alcohol & tobacco are the most dangerous drugs known to man, yet they're legal. Add a little processed sugar to the mix and you'll be dead before you know it; at least you avoided criminal prosecution.
Seriously, this is quite an engaging resource for tapping into our senses, to produce natural highs; and they really work. I just tried the "hypnagogic induction" and I inadvertently created the most incredible lucid dream I've ever had; filled with amazingly detailed designs that would make Peter Max proud. The good news is, it's completely safe and cost-free during these tough economic times. No wonder this thing's selling like crazy.
Not all of Nestor's suggestions are for everyone, of course. Personally, I can't imagine eating or smoking ants to get a buzz, or looking for that dopamine high if I happen to get repeatedly stung by bees. Thanks, but no thanks.
However, this book comes highly recommended for anyone trying to get the most out of their natural states. The brain really is a marvelous device and it functions best when no outside chemicals are introduced into the mix; hear that, kids?
Nestor has unlocked the keys to our imagination; but this "Twilight Zone" won't freak you out.
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