How to Change Your Mind

The Wassons either dismissed or overlooked a somewhat simpler explanation: that powerful feelings and a cu ...

On another return trip, Wasson was joined by James Moore, who had introduced himself as a chemist for a pharmaceu ...

Wasson was halfhearted in his desire to protect María Sabina’s identity. The same week that the Life art ...

The authors concluded that “hallucinogenic plants alter perception in hunting dogs by diminishing extraneous sign ...

Because possession of LSD wouldn’t be a federal crime until 1968, the government often had to rely on mari ...

Osmond’s story, and the rich Canadian history of psychedelic research, is well told in Erika Dyck, Psych ...

Duncan C. Blewett and Nick Chwelos, Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethlylamide-25: Indivi ...

See especially Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (New York: Grov ...

Hubbard treasured a 1957 letter he received from a Monsignor Brownmajor in Vancouver endorsing his work: ...

Hubbard’s name appears on a single scientific paper, written with his colleagues at Hollywood Hospital: “The ...

Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA officer in charge of MK-Ultra, would testify to Congress that its goal was “to inv ...

During his LSD session, Engelbart invented a “tinkle toy” to toilet train children, or at least boys: a ...

Hubbard hated the idea of street acid and the counterculture’s use of it. According to Don Allen, he played ...

The two best accounts of the counterculture’s (and its chemicals’) influence on the computer revolution are Fr ...

Leary wrote in Flashbacks that he was initially frightened to take psilocybin in a prison with violent cr ...

In a 1992 letter to Betty Eisner, Humphry Osmond wrote, “Where both Al [Hubbard] and Aldous [Huxley] disa ...

In Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club (New York: HarperOne, 2010), 94. ...

One could argue that the LSD dropout problem began back in the 1950s, when successful engineers like Myro ...

Several of these urban legends have been traced to their source and discredited. For example, a 1967 ...

There are quotations in this piece that should have set off any editor’s bullshit detector. “When my h ...