transiency as hallmark of, 71 –72
of Wasson, 111
of Zeff, 226Nabokov, Vladimir, 349
Nagel, Thomas, 294
narcissism, 157
NASA’s photo of Earth from space, 184 –85
National Institute of Mental Health, 56
Native Americans
conversion to Christianity, 112
and peyote, 27 , 368
sacramental use of plants, 2 , 27 , 83 , 108 –9, 112
and Spanish suppression of mushrooms, 108 –9
The Natural Mind (Weil), 159
nature
attitudes toward, 315 –16, 379
Hofmann on reconnection with, 25 –26
near-death experiences, 306
negative thinking, 353 , 383 –84
neurochemistry, emergence of, 147 , 293
neuroplasticity, 320 , 384
neuroscience of psychedelics, 291 –330
and authority of psychedelic experiences, 365 –66
and Bayesian inferences, 261 –63
and children’s brains, 323 –28
and consciousness, 293 –95, 302 , 305 –6, 307 –9, 311 –14, 322 –23
and disorganizing effect of psychedelics, 314
and expansion/contraction of consciousness, 322 –23
and hallucinations, 310
and mental rigidity in mental illness, 329 –30
and predictive coding, 307 –8, 310 , 311 , 321 , 325
and psychoanalysis, 296 –97, 299 , 311
receptors, 292 –93, 314n
and rewiring of brain, 316 –20, 318 – 19 , 353 –54
and rotating face mask test, 261 –63, 267
and visual cortex, 365
See also default mode network (DMN); entropic brain theory
neurotransmitters, 147
New Age, 205 , 224
New York Times, 7 –8, 114 , 349
New York University
alcoholism treatment at, 369
cancer patient research at, 8 , 141 , 332 –33, 337 –38, 349 , 350
Nichols, David, 48 –49, 348
Nicholson, Jack, 156
Nin, Anaïs, 156
nitrous oxide, 17 , 69
Nixon, Richard, 58 , 181 , 219 , 315