Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780300276091,
ISBN: HB: 9780300257946,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind.
Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by ex...
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Mescaline
A Global History of the First Psychedelic
ISBN: PB: 9780300257502,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
312 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
312 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception", after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean c...
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