The Head Trip (Adventures on the wheel of Conscience) | Date: 05 June 2011, 01:37
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The Book
“Audacious, enchanting and often hilarious … this book will blow your mind.”
--New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee,
co-author of The Mind Has a Body of Its Own
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness by Jeff Warren is an entrancing taxonomy of waking, sleeping and dreaming states of consciousness. It is a book of psychology and neuroscience, and also of adventure, wherein the author not only comes to a new understanding of the relationship between the mind and the body, but—perhaps mistakenly—comes to believe he possesses thrilling and unusual consciousness superpowers. The many figures, sequential panels and mechanical devices are drawn by the author.
Audacious, enchanting and often hilarious … this book will blow your mind.”
--New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee,
co-author of The Mind Has a Body of Its Own
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness by Jeff Warren is an entrancing taxonomy of waking, sleeping and dreaming states of consciousness. It is a book of psychology and neuroscience, and also of adventure, wherein the author not only comes to a new understanding of the relationship between the mind and the body, but—perhaps mistakenly—comes to believe he possesses thrilling and unusual consciousness superpowers. The many figures, sequential panels and mechanical devices are drawn by the author.
“[The Head Trip] is staggeringly ambitious in scope…and yet it's also friendly and direct. The scientific research is solid and sometimes daunting to readers who haven't retained much from past biology and chemistry classes, but the tone is conversational, smart and often wickedly funny…. one gets the sense of a fully engaged mind weaving an overwhelming glut of fascinating material into a synthesized, though multi-layered, whole. And just as we must use the mind to examine the mind, Warren is fully present at all times in the narrative, with all his doubts, vulnerabilities and anxieties along with his infectious enthusiasm for learning about what makes us tick. It's a highly readable, innovative work – while there have been many pop-science books on consciousness written for a general audience, this is the first to approach the topic from a personal perspective."
“[C]ombines the rigorous self-experimentation of Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open with the wacky self-experimentation of A.J. Jacob’s The-Know-It-All in this entertaining field guide to the varying levels of mental awareness... More important than the theories, though, may be the basic tools—and the visionary spirit—that Warren hands off to those interested in hacking their own minds.”
-Publishers Weekly
“[…An] enjoyably big and baggy book… In a welcome attempt to bring some well-needed levity to the often paralyzingly earnest discussions of such matters, Warren structures the book as a Wheel of Fortune-like spinner on which a "You Are Here" sign points to different stages, from The Hypnagogic to The REM Dream, at the start of each chapter...[A] good-natured and self-deprecating ramble through the worlds
of sleep and wakefulness…”
- Kirkus
"The Head Trip is ... trippy and inspiring, as well as enlightening. It’s more elegantly written, entertaining and illustrated (with Warren’s own pencil drawings and ruminative doodles) than what one might expect from, let’s say, a Dummies Guide to the Mind. But it’s just as user friendly. Definitely something you’ll want to pack on your own nerdy head-trip."
"When Warren does fall asleep, the dreams are Spielberg-worthy: At one point, iPods turn the world's population into flesh-eating zombies; the author takes refuge "in a large medieval castle," from which he and his fellow survivors launch "a series of spectacular supply raids in converted World War One fighter planes." The Head Trip is a fascinating read ... Warren provides a valuable service, beyond merely documenting the breathtaking scope of conscious (and unconscious) experience. Science has tiptoed around the mind because it is too close to home: Other disciplines ask us to observe the world around us with the best available lens; the mind, awkwardly, is that lens. Warren has attempted to turn that lens on itself, and has reminded us just how difficult that task is."
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