Main description:

There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value. There is an effort to recapture the achievements and failures of past work to guide present use. This book is based around material derived from unpublished scientific research from Dr. Robert Mogar's laboratory and built upon by forty years of field research by the author. The author Niccolo Caldararo participated in a number of studies of perception, including sensory deprivation and psychotropic drugs, some of recent manufacture or discovery and some of primitive or traditional societies. He places this analysis of the physiological aspects of hallucinations, delusions, visions and dreamsn context through an , as well as cross cultural data on dreams, dreaming and drug use and the social value of hallucinations, dreams and visions.

The book reviews ethnographic literature in this area and contributes to a comprehensive evaluation of past work done in this area.

Contents:

Introduction: A Personal Reason to Review Experiments Chapter One: The Context for Experiments Then and Now: LSD, Peyote and Chemical Interactions, Human Variation and Interpretation.

Chapter Two: Pursuit of the Miraculous or Just Piling up Confusion, Culture and Influence.

Chapter Three: A Thesis on LSD Research in the Laboratory and On the Street, Sensory Deprivation; Surveys and The Mogar Laboratory.

Chapter Four: The Indigenous View.

Chapter Five: A View of Possible Identities, Realities &

Futures

Chapter Six: The Vision of Women, the Female Exception (in Research) and Gendered Experiences