CONTENTS

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Psychedelics, Technology, Psychedelics.
Bernard S. Aaronson and Humphry Osmond

PART II. THE NATURE OF THE EXPERIENCE

1. Mescaline: On Being Mad

                   Humphry Osmond                

2. Mescaline: Experience and Reflections.
              E. Robert Sinnett             

3. Psilocybin: An Adventure in Psilocybin.
                  Stanley Krippner                

4. Psilocybin: The Use of Psilocybin in a Prison Setting.
                   Jonathan Clark                      

5. LSD: What I Deserved.
               Bernard S. Aaronson               

6. LSD: Who Am I, and So What if I Am?
                 Jerry Richardson                    

7. Yage: Yage in the Valley of Fire.
                 Peter Stafford                   

PART III. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. Peyote Night.
                        Humphry Osmond                        

2. Report of the Mescaline Experience of Crashing Thunder.
Paul Radin

3. Mushrooms and the Mind.
                        Ralph Metzner                          

4. Some Anthropological Aspects of Yage.
                    Jeffrey Linzer                          

5. Marijuana in Morocco.
                               Tod Mikuriya                                      

PART IV. EFFECTS OF PSYCHEDELICS ON RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

1. Psychedelics and Religious Experience.
Alan Watts

2. Drugs and Mysticism.
Walter N. Pahnke

3. The Church of the Awakening.
John W. Aiken

4. The Psychedelics and Religion.
Walter Houston Clark

PART V. PSYCHEDELIC EFFECTS ON MENTAL FUNCTIONING

1. Central Nervous Effects of LSD-25.
Werner P. Koella

2. The Effects of Psychederic Experience on LanguageFunctioning.
                Stanley Krippner              

3. Selective Enhancement of Specific Capacities Through Psychedelic Training.
    Willis W. Harman and James Fadimbril   

4. Psychedelic States and Schizophrena
                 Robert E. Mogar                  

PART VI. NON-DRUG ANALOGUES TO THE PSYCHEDELIC STATE

1. Some Hypnotic Analogues to the Psychedelic State.
   Bernard S. Aaronson

2. Implications of Experimentally InducedContemplative Meditation.
Arthur J. Deikman

PART VII. THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS

1. Toward an Individual Psychedelic Psychotherapy.
Robert E. L. Masters and Jean Houston

2. The Psychedelics and Group Therapy.
Duncan Blewett    

3. Treatment of Alcoholism with Psychedelic Therapy.
Abram Hoffer   

4. A Concept of Death.
Eric C. Kast    

5. LSD and Architectural Design.
Kiyo Izumi     

PART VIII. SOCIOLOGY OF PSYCHEDELICS IN THE CURRENT SCENE

1. LSD and the Press.
William Braden 

2. The Illicit LSD Group—Some Preliminary Observations.
Frances E. Cheek, Stephens Newell, and Mary Sarett         

3. From Data Collection to Pattern Recognition:The Sociology of the Now.
Ira Einhorn 

PART IX. CONCLUSION

Psychedelics and the Future.
Humphry Osmond and Bernard S. Aaronson

PART X. SPECIAL SECTIONS

1. Contributors.     
2. Bibliography.