How to Change Your Mind

projects, Kennedy demanded to know, “Why if [these projects] were worthwhile six months ago, why aren’t the ...

on—and obtain LSD, some of it from the government—for a decade after they had been switched off everyw ...

you were doing that [were] making it more difficult to carry on legitimate research.” Leary reminds him t ...

CHAPTER FOUR TRAVELOGUE Journeying Underground MY PLAN HAD BEEN TO volunteer for one of the Hopkins or NYU experi ...

experiences” that left them with the unshakable conviction that there was something more to this ...

beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three. But there are momen ...

belowground psychedelic worlds is permeable in certain places; a couple of the people I befriended while reporting ...

pair of aviator glasses and a sweater vest over his shirtsleeves, looks more like a favorite uncle tha ...

leave ’em alone!” he tells Stolaroff.) Guides should also be willing to drop the analyst’s mask of detachment, ...

James Fadiman came to the MAPS conference “on the science track,” to give a talk about the value of the ...

protect the safety and health of participants at all times, “safeguard against . . . ambition” and self-promotio ...

YET THE FIRST COUPLE of guides I interviewed did not fill me with confidence. Maybe it was because I was so new ...

of his belly. Speaking with a thick accent, he managed to seem both amiable and disconcertingly blunt. Andrei ...

It’s hard to say exactly what put me off working with Andrei, but oddly enough it was less the New Agey sp ...

with a second prospective guide, a brilliant psychologist in his eighties who had been a student of Timothy ...

blood pressure daily and listened for signs of ventricular eccentricity every time I got into bed. It ...

At least on paper, nothing about the first guide I chose to work with sounds auspicious. The man lived and ...

confinement reading Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and plotting revolution with the Maoist in the next cell, with whom ...

opening him up to possibilities and mysteries without closing him to skepticism—or to the pleasures of everyday l ...

• • • FRITZ TOLD ME what to expect if I were to work with him. It would mean returning here ...