Avec ou sans drogue : un trip aux confins de la conscience | Tracks | ARTE

In 1860, Charles Baudelaire dedicated poems to hashish and “just and powerful opium.” A century later, in “The Doors of Perception,” Aldous Huxley recounted his mescaline trips. The chemist who discovered LSD, Albert Hofmann, is famous for describing his first acid trip… while cycling. Artists and scientists under the influence who chronicle their journeys while under the influence of psychotropic substances have a name: psychonauts. These travelers of the soul seek to analyze their inner selves using more or less illicit substances, or through other ways of altering their consciousness, such as trance. In the age of social media and harm reduction, who are the new psychonauts? From YouTuber Delta Plane's vlog-style "trip reports" to Pierre-Charles Jacquemin's cosmic artworks and Émilie Bitauld's psychedelic—yet understated—paintings, Tracks explores a community passionate about a renewed understanding of the world and themselves. If you or someone you know needs help with an addiction, you can find useful information at https://www.drogues-info-service.fr/ and access to chat support 7 days a week from 2 pm to midnight Monday to Friday and from 2 pm to 8 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. You can also contact them by phone 7 days a week from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., at the anonymous and toll-free number 0 800 23 13 13. 🪐 Pierre-Charles Jacquemin:   / pierre_charles_jacquemin   🕶️ Delta Plane:    / @deltaplane420   🎨 Emilie Bitauld:   / emilie_bitauld   00:00 Introduction 01:48 Invitation to a psychedelic journey 06:06 Is it safe to fly? 10:08 Drug-Free Trance Through Art #arte #psychonauts https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/119473-... Subscribe to the Tracks YouTube channel:    / @tracksartefr   and find Tracks on Instagram:   / artetracks