The Apothecary of Perception: A Practical & Perilous Guide to Brewing Your Own Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245840048)

This is not a book about herbs. Well, not only about herbs. It's about everything else that goes into the cauldron of your consciousness. Think of me not as a wise elder on a misty mountain (I'm in a slightly damp flat in Manchester), but as your slightly unhinged lab assistant in the great experiment of you.

The Apothecary of Perception is a guide to crafting conditions. We don't brew potions in here; we brew contexts. We'll use the oldest technologies available: darkness, sound, your own lungs, and the peculiar arrangement of your limbs. We'll also examine the most potent, often poisonous, 'herbs' of the modern mind: the caffeine we worship, the sugar we crave, the digital dopamine we mainline.