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Who is Who in Psychedelics
The oldest technology and the newest science — meeting at the threshold.
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William James19th–20th century
Varieties of Religious Experience · Nitrous Oxide · Radical Empiricism · Mysticism
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María Sabina20th century
The Velada · Sacred Mushrooms · Mazatec Healing · Language as Medicine
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Aldous Huxley20th century
The Doors of Perception · The Reducing Valve · Mescaline · The Perennial Philosophy
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R. Gordon Wasson20th century
Ethnomycology · The Velada · Soma · Mushrooms & Civilisation
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Albert Hofmann20th–21st century
LSD · Psilocybin · Chemistry · The Bicycle Day
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Richard Evans Schultes20th–21st century
Ethnobotany · Amazonian Plants · Indigenous Knowledge · Conservation
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John C. Lilly20th–21st century
Isolation Tanks · Ketamine · The Human Biocomputer · Dolphin Communication
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Humphry Osmond20th–21st century
Psychedelic Naming · The M-Hypothesis · Schizophrenia · High-Dose Model
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Timothy Leary20th century
Set and Setting · The Harvard Experiments · Turn On Tune In Drop Out
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Alexander Shulgin20th–21st century
PIHKAL · TIHKAL · Structure-Activity · Self-Experimentation
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Carlos Castaneda20th century
The Teachings of Don Juan · Tonal/Nagual · Controlled Folly · Perception
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Claudio Naranjo20th–21st century
MDA · Harmaline · Character & Neurosis · SAT Programme · Gestalt
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Ralph Metzner20th–21st century
Maps of Consciousness · Ecology of Mind · Green Psychology · Intention
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Terence McKenna20th century
Psilocybin · The Stoned Ape · Language · Novelty Theory · The Archaic Revival
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