Psychedelics, The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs

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Author(s): Aaronson B., Osmond H.
Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS
Year: 1970

Language: English
Pages: 520
City: NEW YORK

3. Mushrooms and the Mind -
Ralph Metzner......Page 7
Part I.
Introduction......Page 10
Psychedelics, Technology, Psychedelics.Bernard S. Aaronson and Humphry Osmond......Page 11
Part II. The Nature of the Experience
......Page 27
1. Mescaline: On Being Mad -
Humphry Osmond......Page 29
2. Mescaline: Experience and Reflections -
E. Robert Sinnett......Page 37
3. Psilocybin: An Adventure in Psilocybin -
Stanley Krippner......Page 43
4. Psilocybin: The Use of Psilocybin in a Prison Setting - Jonathan Clark
......Page 48
5. LSD: What I Deserved -
Bernard S. Aaronson......Page 52
6. LSD: Who Am I, and So What if I Am? -
Jerry Richardson......Page 58
7. Yagé: Yagé in the Valley of Fire -
Peter Stafford......Page 66
Part III. Anthropological Considerations
......Page 74
1. Peyote Night -
Humphry Osmond......Page 75
2. Report of the Mescaline Experience of Crashing Thunder - Paul Radin
......Page 94
4. Some Anthropological Aspects of Yagé -
Jeffrey Linzer......Page 116
5. Marijuana in Morocco -
Tod Mikuriya......Page 123
Part IV. Effects of Psychedelics on Religion and Religious Experience
......Page 137
1. Psychedelics and Religious Experience -
Alan Watts......Page 139
2. The Psychedelics and Group Therapy -
Duncan Blewett......Page 8
3. The Church of the Awakening -
John W. Aiken......Page 173
4. The Psychedelics and Religion -
Walter Houston Clark......Page 190
Part V. Psychedelic Effects on Mental Functioning
......Page 204
1. Central Nervous Effects of LSD-25 -
Werner P. Koella......Page 206
3. Selective Enhancement of Specific CapacitiesThrough Psychedelic Training -
Willis W. Harman and James Fadiman......Page 247
4. Psychedelic States and Schizophrenia -
Robert E. Mogar......Page 265
Part VI. Non-drug Analogues to the Psychedelic State
......Page 285
1. Some Hypnotic Analogues to the Psychedelic State -
Bernard S. Aaronson......Page 287
2. Implications of Experimentally Induced
Contemplative Meditation - Arthur J. Deikman......Page 304
1. LSD and the Press -
William Braden......Page 9
Part VIII. Sociology of Psychedelics in the Current Scene
......Page 329
2. The Illicit LSD Group—Some Preliminary Observations -
Frances E. Cheek, Stephens Newell, and MarySarett......Page 426
3. From Data Collection to Pattern Recognition:The Sociology of the Now -
Ira Einhorn......Page 447
Part IX. Conclusions
......Page 467
Psychedelics and the Future -

Humphry Osmond and Bernard S. Aaronson......Page 469
1. Contributors
......Page 487
2. Bibliography.......Page 490
3. Index.......Page 511