Mescaline: The Crystal of Immortality
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Henri Michaux's mescaline writings document his experiments with the psychedelic mescaline and the ensuing alterations of perception, language, and selfhood.
Using vivid, often fragmented prose, Michaux explores hallucinatory landscapes, the disintegration and reconfiguration of identity, and the difficulty of rendering such experiences in language.
The texts consider both the aesthetic possibilities and the alienating consequences of drug-induced unselfing, interrogating whether such states produce insight or estrangement.
Michaux's work has been influential in studies of literature and psychopharmacology, as well as modernist experiments in form.
His reports remain central to discussions about the ethics and phenomenology of altered consciousness.
Using vivid, often fragmented prose, Michaux explores hallucinatory landscapes, the disintegration and reconfiguration of identity, and the difficulty of rendering such experiences in language.
The texts consider both the aesthetic possibilities and the alienating consequences of drug-induced unselfing, interrogating whether such states produce insight or estrangement.
Michaux's work has been influential in studies of literature and psychopharmacology, as well as modernist experiments in form.
His reports remain central to discussions about the ethics and phenomenology of altered consciousness.
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Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
