{"product_id":"2940150061729","title":"Travel Tales Monthly No 6 DEC 2014","description":"Michael Brein’s “Travel Tales Monthly” Bookazine Issue No. 6 for December 2014 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe December 2014 issue samples ‘drug tourism’ — the quest to achieve the sorts of brain-states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditating, cogitating, experimenting, exploring, or seeking enlightenment and personal growth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch tales as Snake Wine, The Full Moon Party, and Magical, Mystical Marrakesh illustrate how travelers wander the world to experiment or explore by ingesting, injecting, imbibing, chewing, eating, snorting, and smoking a variety of drugs, substances, plants, and even ‘medications,’ in order to morph from the normal, oft boring, mundane, ordinary, conscious waking-state into the brain-less or the super-conscious in the attempt to achieve various mental states of being that range somewhere betwixt and between the ‘mindless’ and the ‘mindful.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is one thing to dabble in a limited way with substances at home; it's another matter, altogether, to venture into a vast world of the exotic — a world that is a veritable ‘candy store’ of magical, mystical drugs and substances that are there for the taking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome travelers are lured to the hypothetical mysterious so-called ‘blue’ pill or the ‘red’ pill. They can not only choose one of these pills to satisfy their exploring, their inquisitiveness, their mental journeys piled on top of their physical travel journeys — they can choose both, as well as a panoply of other substances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what are the consequences of ‘doing’ drugs and substances in a foreign land? In one of our featured stories for this month, Snake Wine, our traveler toys dangerously with drinking, willy-nilly, a concoction of blood and venom of a deadly poisonous snake in a Taiwan night market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd even worse, and unbelievably, in The Full Moon Party, our storyteller describes how a couple of hippies get in over their heads by spiking the drinks of two Spanish policeman with LSD! How safe or sane is that? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNext, several of our stories describe how travelers seek out the jungles of South America (and also South Africa) in order to drink a horrid, vile tasting concoction — called “ayahuasca, ” — perhaps throwing all caution to the wind and often throwing up violently in the process — and for what? — evidently to engage with some sorts of unknown forces, energies, spirits, or entities, even, that seem to take over and ‘intervene’ in their bodies, minds, and spirits, presumably on their behalf!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActing in ways often contrary to good common sense, we have in this month’s issue a number of travelers who dare to taunt fate via taking unknown drugs and substances, often in the face of possible dangerous and disastrous consequences due to the unknowns involved in doing so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll-in-all, you will also see some aspects of travel that you, yourself, may not ever have even considered before.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, once again, you will certainly experience vicariously those odd vagaries of travel-life that can await you and can suddenly appear just around the corner at about any turn along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinding up this month's issue is Michael Wiese, our guest contributor, an acclaimed author, filmmaker, and world traveler, who describes his own bouts with the wild, wacky, and mysterious world of ‘Mother Ayahuasca.’","brand":"Michael Brein, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068369092848,"sku":"2940150061729","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150061729_p0.jpg?v=1763729726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150061729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}