ABSTRACT
Juan Carlos Kase’s conceptualizes fantastic voyages into the inner recesses of the psyche through another form of far-out trip: the altered perceptions of psychedelic drugs. This chapter places the “psychedelic trend” of the American avant-garde 1960s—exemplified by Sharits, Warhol, and Van Meter and decried by Stan Brakhage among others—within a larger context of exploration, reminding readers that the physical explorations of aquanauts and cosmonauts had their correlatives in cinematic psychonauts.
