subversive power of, 214
as tryptamine, 291 –92
youth culture’s adoption of, 25 , 212
Luce, Clare Boothe, 104 , 212
Luce, Henry, 104 , 212
machine learning, 325 –26
MacLean, Katherine, 37 , 74 , 346 , 401 , 402
Maclean’s, 148
magical thinking, 312 , 314 , 317 , 389
Malievskaia, Ekaterina, 399
mania, 383
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 352n
Manson, Charles, 5 , 367
marijuana and cannabis, 36 , 37 , 138 , 138n, 204 , 299
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at Spring Grove, 52 , 57 , 218
Maslow, Abraham, 49 , 55 , 232
materialist perspective, 12 , 85 , 135
Mayan civilization, 274
Mazatec Indians, 83 , 109 , 110 , 112
McClelland, David, 191 , 195 , 197
McDaniels, Terry, 370 –72
McHugh, Paul, 76
McKenna, Terence, 97 , 115 –17, 121
McLuhan, Marshall, 138 , 139 , 204 , 205
MDMA (Ecstasy)
and cardiac concerns, 236 –37
Doblin’s distribution of, 36
Nutt’s conclusions on, 299
and phase 3 trials approval, 397
in PTSD treatments, 18 , 36 –37
Schuster on, 51
Shulgin’s synthesis of, 44
and therapeutic bond, 236 –37
trials for, 48
meaning, personal
and awe-inspiring experiences, 375
and cancer patient research, 11 , 63 , 352 –55
construction of, 354
and ego dissolution, 389
and 5-HT2A receptors, 354n
Griffiths on, 75 –76
and suggestibility of psychedelics, 354
value of, 355
media
and Harvard Psilocybin Project controversy, 194 –95, 196 –97
and Katz’s “My 12 Hours as a Madman,” 148 , 154
and LSD’s escape from the lab, 157
on moral panic, 211 –12