This of edition Psychoactive Poetry is formatted for use as a poetry therapy and creative writing resource book. It includes an explanatory introduction providing the "intellectual and spiritual field in which [these] poems are embedded." Suggestions on how to get the best use of this poetry therapy tool are given following the introduction. The "invitation to write" at the bottom of each poem, a feature also to be found in my previous poetry therapy resource book, Hoisting a whirlwind, provides stimulating props for participants in poetry therapy sessions and work equally well for creative writing workshops. While the Hoisting collection contains poems focused on a wide array of developmental concerns principally of a emotional nature, the present collection is more concerned with 'higher' level intellectual and spiritual matters.
These poems aim to foster the search for ultimate meaning by stimulating, massaging, the 'spiritual unconscious,' as described by Viktor Frankl and others.