Cynthia Palmer

George Sand * Susan Sontag * Edith Piaf * Louisa May Alcott * Edith Wharton * Billie Holiday * Maria Sabina * Anita Hoffman * Charlotte Bronte * Diane di Prima * Sarah Bernhardt * Elizabeth Barrett Browning * Margaret Fuller * Anais Nin * Laura Huxley

These women are part of a virtually unknown tradition in women's history and a rich genre of drug and altered-states literature.

This book is the first collection of women's writings on their experiences with mind-altering drugs, form the Victorian to the present post-psychedelic eras. The 'shamans' among the dozens of contributors communicate drugs' revelations, visions, and healing powers, like a primitive tribe's sorcerer. The 'mainline ladies' are the pleasure and oblivion seekers, the addicts and abusers.

'Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady' shows that, for a long time, women have experimented with drugs courageously, lived dangerously, and written about it eloquently.… (más)

> Voir un extrait : https://books.google.fr/books?id=C1soDwAAQBAJ&hl=fr&printsec=frontcover&...

> [Question de]. Aldous Huxley, Moksha. In: Question de n°61, 1985 – Tibet, une culture en exil. p.123 (rel="nofollow" target="_top">Lectures par Robert Amadou)
Aux éditions du Rocher, qui décidément publient souvent des textes essentiels : Moksha de Aldous Huxley, discours, essais, lettres diverses qui de 1931 à 1963 tracent l'itinéraire d'un cheminement intérieur d'une authenticité remarquable : un précurseur qui nous livre là un témoignage essentiel sur les drogues sacramentelles et la démarche d'un grand écrivain en sa quête de vacuité et de claire lumière.… (más)