on perils of psychedelics, 209 , 209n
on psychedelics at Harvard, 202
on psycholytic LSD therapy, 156 –57
medicalization of psychedelic drugs, 36 , 51 , 400 , 402
meditation
and access to other modes of consciousness, 408 –9
of Griffiths, 32 –33
and mental time travel, 387
and quieting of default mode network, 305 , 306 , 391 , 392 –95
memories, 307 , 317
Menlo Park, psychedelic use in
and CIA’s mind control research, 206 –7
and Hubbard, 171 , 177 –78
at International Foundation for Advanced Study, 43 –44, 177 –80, 198 , 217 , 228
Menninger, Karl, 368
mental illness
associated with mental rigidity, 329
common underlying mechanism for, 383 –84
and default mode network (DMN), 329 , 386
and ego in low-entropy disorders, 313
grand unified theory of, 383 –84, 385
inadequate treatments for, 335 –36
potential for curing, 377
and suicides, 335
See also addiction; depression
Merry Pranksters, 206 –7
mescaline
and Harvard controversy, 202
and Hubbard, 169 , 173
and Huxley, 144 , 150 –51, 160 –62
and James, 17
and Osmond’s research, 146 , 147
perceived dangers of, 210
and psychotomimetic model, 162
and schizophrenia research, 146
and Weil, 201
Mesoamerican Indians, 107
Mettes, Patrick, 332 , 336 , 337 –38, 340 –44, 346 , 356 –57
Metzner, Ralph, 190 , 191 , 195
Michaux, Henri, 278n
“microdosing,” 14n, 175
middle-aged people, 7 , 73 , 321
Miller, Savannah, 363 –64
mind wandering, 304
Miserable Miracle (Michaux), 278n
Mitchell, Edgar, 358 –59
MK-Ultra experiments of CIA, 59 , 113n, 172 , 172n, 206 , 207
Moore, James, 113n
moral panic provoked by psychedelics
effect of, on psychedelic research, 185 , 205
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