Index
abandonment 73–77, 155
accessories 143–6
‘accursed share’ 65–9
acid house 25, 49–2, 183, 184
‘Adam’ 144
adolescents 148–50
adventure 69
advertisements 68–2, 185
aesthetics 48, 236–1
Africa 30
African-Americans 25, 49, 56, 186
Afrodelica 30
ages 145
aggregation 69
AIDS 33
Airault, Régis 276
alcohol use 145
Alien Dreamtime 211–18
altered states of consciousness (ASCs) 154,
156, 201, 289
alternative culture 96, 194, 232, 206n.4,
249n.1
amnesia 35
amphetamines 145
Anak Swarasanti 194, 197–201
anarchism 272
ancestor worship 129–4
animism 123
Anjuna 238, 265, 272–5, 275;
chillum ritual 277–80;
noise pollution 280–3
annihilation 51, 54
Apocalypse 34
Apollo 33
appearance 69–3, 123, 128, 132–5
Argüelles, José 224
art 21–4
ascensionism 20–6
Australia 26;
aboriginal example 45;
appeal of 148;
ConFest 85–8, 206n.10;
environmentalism 227–1;
postcolonial primitivism 196;
see also doofs
autonomic nervous system (ANS) 152
‘awakening’ 19–2
Ayia Napa 186Bailey, Edward 63, 78 n.17
Bainbridge, William 95
Balinese music see gamelan
Banzie 129, 137
Baptist church, parallels with 188–1
Barasana community 126–32, 133, 134
Barker, Eileen 94–8
Barrelful of Monkeys 214, 216
Bass Culture (Bradley) 188
Bastide, Roger 62, 63–8, 76
Bataille, G.:
‘accursed share’ 62, 65–9;
excess 72;
individual body 76;
the sacred 56;
sacrifice 51, 74;
subject-object 44;
violence 78n.12
Bateson, Gregory 253
Baudrillard, J. 54
Bauman, Z. 36
Beanfield, Battle of 226302