By Oliver Burkeman — 2018
Pollan’s illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs reveals that their mystical and medical benefits are indivisible.
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Here he describes the process of setting up a program to research the psychedelic drug, DMT, at the University of New Mexico. It took two years to obtain the required permissions, as there had been a twenty year hiatus in psychedelic research on human subjects.
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Traces historical and modern scientific efforts to investigate and understand the supernatural world and psychic experiences and surveys contemporary theories, experiences, and personalities relating to parapsychology.
Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Here he discusses a number of altered states including marijuana intoxication, dreaming, hypnosis, and out-of-body experiences.