Author : Charles S. Grob
Release : 2002-07-08
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 669/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Hallucinogens by : Charles S. Grob
Download or read book Hallucinogens written by Charles S. Grob. This book was released on 2002-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.