The Head Trip

This book captures what is so exciting about psychology - that our own minds are at once so familiar yet so deeply weird. There’s so much to be explored!

Warren is a perfect guide, sharing his learning but not getting bogged down with it, as he visits different states of consciousness, some of which we visit every day, like the daydream or the feeling of falling asleep, others, like the lucid dream, might be less familiar.

It’s profound but never loses its sense of fun.

Warren takes his brain off for a trip to the extremes of experience and comes back to tell us all about it. But instead of rambling incoherently about insights into the state of the Universe like most psycho-tourists, Warren describes, analyses and sometimes explains how our minds produce “alternative” experiences such as “pure” consciousness, ego-dissolution and bizarre hallucinations. You’ll be grateful he’s done it for you