How to Change Your Mind

fact, there were six international scientific meetings devoted to psychedelics between 1950 and 1965. “Some ...

her clinical observations. This policy remained more or less unchanged from 1949 to 1966 and was in ...

of psychiatry and psychotherapy: psychedelic therapy could look more like shamanism or faith healing than med ...

Part I: The Promise The drugs weren’t called “psychedelics” at the beginning; that term wasn’t introduced until 19 ...

of course meant taking the drug themselves, which seems odd, even scandalous, to us today. But in the years ...

found in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan, of all places. Beginning in the mid-1940s, the province ...

During this period, Osmond and Hoffer administered Sandoz LSD to dozens of people, including colleagues, friends, ...

There was no point in trying to get inside the mind; it was, in B. F. Skinner’s famous phrase, “a black b ...

exerted a powerful effect on the kinds of experiences people had and that one of the best ways to avoid a ...

IN THE MID-1950S, Bill Wilson, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, learned about Osmond and Hoffer’s work w ...

SIDNEY COHEN AND HIS COLLEAGUES in Los Angeles had, like the Canadian group, started out thinking that LSD was ...

various times, but they did represent profoundly different approaches to understanding the psyche, as well as t ...

In Los Angeles, Cohen, Eisner, and Janiger began incorporating LSD in their weekly therapeutic sessions, graduall ...

Cary Grant’s image as a reserved and proper Englishman. “I’ve had my ego stripped away. A man is a bette ...

ambivalent: LSD, he wrote in a 1959 letter to a colleague, had “opened a door from which we must no ...

the abuses and dangers of LSD, or to call out his more fervent colleagues when they strayed too far off the p ...

“It was without question the most extraordinary and significant experience this side of the Beatific Vision,” ...

radio receivers, can tune in to different frequencies of consciousness. Huxley also believed that at the b ...

coloring of the 1960s, at the time it was the very neutrality of “psychedelic” that commended it to him: ...

often wore a paramilitary uniform and carried a Colt .45 revolver, giving the impression of a small-town s ...