Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness

By Diana Reed Slattery

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Math

In Xenolinguistics (2015), researcher and artist Diana Reed Slattery explores the unnatural languages, glyphs and writing systems that some people report encountering in psychedelic states. Drawing on her own experiences, including the visual language she called Glide, and on accounts from other psychonauts, Slattery examines what these phenomena suggest about language, perception and consciousness. She treats them as material for a new field of study rather than as hallucinations to dismiss.

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