“All at once, as it were out of the intensity”: Tennysons, “Luminous Sleep.”
“I saw that the universe”: Quoted in James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 391.
CHAPTER FIVE NEUROSCIENCE: YOUR BRAIN ON PSYCHEDELICS
One candidate for that chemical: For more detail, see David Nichols’s talk “DMT and the Pineal
Gland: Facts vs. Fantasy,” available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeeqHUiC8Io.
psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin work: Vollenweider et al., “Psilocybin Induces Schizophrenia-
Like Psychosis in Humans via a Serotonin-2 Agonist Action.”
“there is nothing of which we are more certain”: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 12.
The classic thought experiment: Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
consciousness may pervade the universe: Frank, “Minding Matter.”
a landmark paper: Raichle et al., “Default Mode of Brain Function.”
“Chaos is averted”: Raichle, “Brain’s Dark Energy.”
It also lights up when we receive “likes”: Brewer, Craving Mind, 46.
In an often-cited paper: Killingsworth and Gilbert, “Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind.”
Shortly after Carhart-Harris published: Carhart-Harris et al., “Neural Correlates of the Psychedelic
State as Determined by fMRI Studies with Psilocybin.”
The bee perceives a substantially different spectrum: Srinivasan, “Honey Bees as a Model for Vision,
Perception, and Cognition”; Dyer et al., “Seeing in Colour.”
the sense that allows bees to register: Sutton et al., “Mechanosensory Hairs in Bumblebees (Bombus
terrestris) Detect Weak Electric Fields.”
a dimension of music that conveys emotion: Kaelen, “Psychological and Human Brain Effects of
Music in Combination with Psychedelic Drugs.”
“serves to promote realism”: Carhart-Harris et al., “Entropic Brain.”
“Distinct networks became less distinct”: Carhart-Harris, Kaelen, and Nutt, “How Do Hallucinogens
Work on the Brain?”
the usual lines of communications: Petri et al., “Homological Scaffolds of Brain Functional
Networks.”
her superb book: Gopnik, Philosophical Baby.
“Adults have congealed in their beliefs”: Lucas et al., “When Children Are Better (or at Least More
Open-Minded) Learners Than Adults.”
CHAPTER SIX THE TRIP TREATMENT: PSYCHEDELICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
“For me that is not a medical concept”: Kupferschmidt, “High Hopes,” 23.
“If we are to develop optimal research designs”: Grob, “Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens.”
only about half of the people who take their lives: Beacon Health Options, “We Need to Talk About
Suicide,” 10.
“psychiatry has gone from being brainless”: Solomon, Noonday Demon, 102.
“alter[] the experience of dying”: Cohen, “LSD and the Anguish of Dying.”
“of cosmic unity”: Richards et al., “LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy and the Human Encounter with
Death.”
“I am the luckiest man on earth”: Grob, Bossis, and Griffiths, “Use of the Classic Hallucinogen
Psilocybin for Treatment of Existential Distress Associated with Cancer,” 303.
In December 2016, a front-page story: Hoffman, “Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’
and Then Lasting Peace.”
In a follow-up study to the NYU trial: Belser et al., “Patient Experiences of Psilocybin-Assisted
Psychotherapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.”
“is to make your interests gradually wider”: Bertrand Russell, “How to Grow Old.”
“And suddenly I realized that the molecules”: Hertzberg, “Moon Shots (3 of 3).”