Tripping

“Offers a multitude of perspectives from all walks of life about the psychedelic experience … In this new age of microdosing and psychedelic research and experimentation, Tripping is a must-read for anyone who’s interested in consciousness expansion.” – Boing Boing

“A magnificent collection.” – Alexander Shulgin, godfather of MDMA

“Hayes is such a bristling and intelligent writer that one almost wishes that he had written the whole book himself. The free flow of ideas about these verboten substances and their anthropological/psychological possibilities is exhilarating.” – The Oxford American

“A sensitive and responsible approach to documenting profound experiences with ‘drugs.’ The results of this informal research are both informative and highly moving.” – The Lancet

“Intriguing. The narratives are informative, cautionary, hilarious and spooky. The uninitiated may recoil from stories of visions of goat-devils, the moon as an alien flashlight, and nude escapades at Burning Man, but those in on the book’s implicit wink will find like-minded stories of drug-induced bliss and abject terror.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“Readers will find a sequence of first-person narratives (a form at least as old as The Canterbury Tales) that presents, in kaleidoscopic fashion, the last thirty years as refracted through the prism of a drug experience.” – The Chronicle of Higher Education

“We can theorize about psychedelics till the cow patties come home, but there’s nothing as poignant, perplexing, and funny as a well-told trip report. Charles Hayes has gathered together some great ones. Tripping is instructive, hilarious and – let’s face it – enticing. I loved it.” – R.U. Sirius, Mondo 2000

“A classic in the growing body of contemporary psychedelic literature. For the experienced, Tripping is a harvest of inspiring moments and a reminiscence of one’s own deeply shape-shifting journeys. For the uninitiated, it is a profound glimpse into the hidden world of the subconscious and a provocation for wider acceptance of the usefulness of psychedelic states.” – Allan Badiner, Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics

Charles Hayes is a substance use disorder counselor in New York City. He has worked as a writer/editor for various businesses and organizations, a communications manager for a marketing firm, and a journalist. His work has appeared in Reason, The Oxford American, Tikkun, High Times, and E magazine.

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