CONTENTS

Foreword by G. William Barnard

Preface: One Discovery of Transcendence

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note to the Reader

PART I. Setting the Stage

  1. The Death and Rebirth of Psychedelic Research

  2. Orientation, Definitions, and the Limits of Language

  3. Revelation and Doubt

PART II. Mystical and Visionary Forms of Consciousness

  4. Intuitive Knowledge

  5. Approaches to Unitive Consciousness

  6. New Perspectives on Time and Space

  7. Visions and Archetypes

PART III. Personal and Interpersonal Dynamics

  8. The Interpersonal and the Mystical

  9. Experiences of Meaninglessness, Despair, and Somatic Discomfort

10. Religious Conversion and Psychodynamic Experiences

11. Discipline and Integration

12. Reflections on Death

PART IV. Present and Future Applications of Entheogens

13. Psychedelic Frontiers in Medicine

14. Psychedelic Frontiers in Education

15. Psychedelic Frontiers in Religion

16. Maximizing the Probability of Safety and Benefit

PART V. Onward

17. Fears of Awakening

18. Entering Into a New Paradigm

19. Movement Into the Future

Epilogue: A Concise Report of Insights from the Frontier Where Science and Spirituality Are Meeting

 

Selected Bibliography

A Hopkins Playlist for Psilocybin Studies (2008 Version)

Name Index

Subject Index