Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Columbia University Press

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E-ISBN 978-0-231-54091-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Richards, William A.

Sacred knowledge : psychedelics and religious experiences / William A. Richards, 1940–

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-17406-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-54091-9 (e-book)

1. Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. I. Title.

BL65.D7R53 2015

204’.2—dc23

2015014533

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