and McKenna, 116
and mushroom conferences, 102 –3
on mushroom identification, 94 –95
mushroom stone artifacts of, 114 –15
Mycelium Running, 88 , 90
mycological theories of, 124 –26, 136
new species identified by, 86
and P. azurescens, 86 , 92 , 118 , 120 –21, 129
Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies, 101
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, 86
as Romantic scientist, 126 –28
and ’shrooms (term), 92
and Stoned Ape Theory, 97 –98, 115 –17
Stanford Research Institute (SRI), 180 –82
Stanford University, 44 , 180
Stanley, Owsley, III, 181n
Steindl-Rast, David, 49
stigmas of psychedelic drugs, 104
Stolaroff, Myron
background of, 175 –76
career pivot of, 44 , 177 , 206n
and guides, 230
and Hubbard, 168 , 177
and International Foundation for Advanced Study (IFAS), 177
and Jesse, 44 , 46
and Leary, 198 , 199 , 200 –201
psychedelic experiences of, 176
and psychedelics in Silicon Valley, 176 –77
and reunion of first wave figures, 219
and underground therapists, 227
and Zeff, 225 , 227
Stoned Ape Theory, 97 –98, 115 –17
Strassman, Rick, 48
subconscious, 155
subjectivity, 305 –6, 413
suggestibility of psychedelics
and attributions of meaning, 354
and Cohen’s ambivalence about LSD, 158
and expectations of users, 25
and Hopkins’s psilocybin research, 64
and Hubbard, 170
and placebo effect, 347
suicides, 3 , 210 , 211 , 335 , 388
Summergrad, Paul, 398 , 401 , 403
synesthesia, 115 –16, 145 , 317
talking therapy, 155
technological advances, 183 –84
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 287