Interviews with fourteen pioneers in psychedelic research. Psychedelics have been a part―often a central and sacred part―of most societies throughout history, and for half a century psychedelics have rumbled through the Western world, seeding a subculture, titillating the media, fascinating youth, terrifying parents, enraging politicians, and intriguing researchers. Not surprisingly, these curious chemicals fascinated some of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, fourteen of whom were interviewed for this book. Because no further human research can be done, these researchers constitute an irreplaceable resource. Higher Wisdom offers their fascinating anecdotes, invaluable knowledge, and hard-won wisdom―the culmination of fifty years of research and reflection on one of the most intriguing and challenging topics of our time.

Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore The Continuing Impact Of Psychedelics (S U N Y SERIES IN TRANSPERSONAL AND HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY)

Charles S. Grob

Roger Walsh

Religion & Spirituality

State Univ of New York Pr

Let us then consider, for a moment, the world as described by the physicist. It consists of a number of fundamental particles which ... appear bound by certain natural laws which indicate the form of their relationship_ Now the physicist himself who describes all this, is in his own account, himself constructed of it. He is, in short, made of a conglomeration of the very particulars he describes, no more, no less, bound together by and obeying such general laws as he himself has managed to find and to record. Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order (and thus in such a way as to be able) to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into at least one state which sees and at least one other state which is seen. In this severed and mutilated condition, what ever sees is only partially itself. We may take it that the world undoubtedly is itself (i.e., is indistinct from itself), but, in any attempt to see itself as an object, it must, equally undoubtedly, act so as to make itself distinct from, and therefore false to, itself. In this condition it will always partially elude itself.

Towards an Ecology of Brain

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer

Accept This Gift (Audio Renaissance)

Richard Thomas

Frances E. Vaughan

New Age & Spirituality

MacMillan Audio

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