It's been forty years since Timothy Leary sat beside a swimming pool in Cuernavaca, Mexico, ingested several grams of the genus Stropharia cubensis, and experienced a dazzling display of visions that led him to herald the dawning of a New Age. And yet, from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, through the War on Drugs, to this very day, the world at large has viewed hallucinogens not as a gift but as a threat to society.
In Hallucinogens, Charles Grob surveys recent writings from such important thinkers as Terence McKenna, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil, illustrating that a reevaluation of the social worth of hallucinogens-used intelligently-is greatly in order.
By:
Charles Grob Imprint: Jeremy P Tarcher Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 159mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1g ISBN:9781585421664 ISBN 10: 1585421669 Pages: 304 Publication Date:08 July 2002 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Charles S. Grob, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.