Index
Abreaction therapy, see Narcosynthesis
Acupuncture, 210, 212-13
Adenosine triphosphate, 153
Adrenalin, 43, 45, 46, 197, 275
Adrenochrome, 43, 45-6, 136, 175
Alcohol, 4, 5, 9, 11, 16, 22, 24, 51, 53, 96, 97, 98, 99, 105, 120-3, 124, 126 128, 134, 136, 138, 147, 149-50, 158, 159, 166, 198, 254
Ale, see Beer
Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass), LSD: 143; Psychedelic Experience, The: 257
Amanita muscaria, 4, 11, 73, 98, 122
Amazon Valley, 38, 112
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 157, 234
American Psychiatric Association, 30, 33
Amos, 123
Amphetamine, 213, 254; see also Benzedrine
Amytal, 139, 259
Anaesthetic Revelation, 25
Anhalonium lewinii, see Peyote
Arabian Nights, 43, 102
Arcilochus, 163
Argand, Aimé, 71
Arnold, Julia, xvi
Arnold, Matthew, xvi, 144
Arnold, Thomas, xvi
Arunja, 228
Asceticism, 51, 53
Asclepias acida, see Milkweed
Ascorbic acid, 153
Aspirin, 147, 213
Ayahuasca, 100, 113, 120, 199
Bacchus, see Dionysus
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 67, 77, 86-7, 133, 220. B-minor Suite: 86; Fourth Brandenburg Concerto: 77; Musical Offering: 86, 220
Balzac, Honoré, 165
Banisterio, see Ayahuasca
Barbiturates, 24, 68, 98, 151-2, 213, 254
Barron, Frank, 180
Baumgarten-Tramer, Dr., 215
Bedford, Sybille, Aldous Huxley: A Biography: 51, 89, 188, 234, 238
Beer, 24, 122, 135, 213, 254
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 88. Missa Solemnis: 88
Belloc, Hilaire, 55
Benzedrine, 98, 136-7, 138, 213, 254
Bergson, Henri, 29, 155, 160, 214, 223. Two Sources of Religion and Morality: 155
Berkeley, George, 88
Berlin, Isaiah, 163
Bernstein, Leonard, 113
Betel, 4, 96
Bhagavad-Gita, 217-18, 228-9
Bhang, see Cannabis indica
Blake, William, 42, 44, 64, 80, 89, 130, 141, 144, 158, 160, 172, 177, 193, 201, 250. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The: 44, 89, 144
Blewett, Duncan, 144, 194. Frontiers of Being: 144
Blood, Benjamin Paul, 25
Blyth, R. H., 48
Boehme, Jacob, 46, 278
Bond, Elinor, 72
Book of Chronicles, 167
Book of Revelation, 65, 206
Book of Samuel, 167
Boucher, François, 82
Bouverie, Alice, 72
Brainwashing, 16, 95, 170
Braun, Gerhart, 180
Broad, C. D., 212
Brontë, Emily, 103
Brown, Barbara, 102-3
Buber, Martin, 245
Buddha, 181, 268-9
Byrd, William, 86
Cactus, see Peyote
Camus, Albert, 132
Cannabis indica, 97, 123, 134
Cannabis sativa, 137
Carbogen, 67, 70
Carbon dioxide, 275
Cassio, 166
Castalia Foundation, 244
Chandos, John, 188-9
Chantai, Madame de, 85
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales, The: 165
Chesterton, G. K., 55
Chloral, 4, 16, 98
Chlorpromazine, 137
Cholden, Louis S., 72, 88
Christ, 124, 181, 196, 230. Sermon on the Mount, The: 217, 230
Churchill, Winston, 234
Claudian, 283
Coca, 96, 145, 198
Coca-Cola, 170
Cocaine, xiv, 4, 5, 9, 12, 128, 134, 136, 198, 254
Coffee, 136, 213
Cohen, Sidney, 143, 162, 262. The Beyond Within: 143; LSD: 143
Congress of Applied Psychology, 208-9, 210, 215
Conze, Edward, Buddhist Texts: 235
Crowley, Aleister, 3
Curandero, see Shaman
Dante, 52, 90, 164, 278. Inferno, The: 90
Datura, 98
David, king of Israel, 167
De Quincey, Thomas, 147-8. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The: 147
Dextro-amphetamine sulphate, 210
Dianetics, 80
Dickens, Charles, 165
Dilaudid, 259
Dionysus, cult of, 24, 105, 122, 123
Ditman, Keith, 181
Dostoyevsky, Feodor, 165
Dreiser, Theodore, 157
E-Therapy, 54
Eckhart, Meister, xv, 141, 159, 214
Eisenhower, Dwight, 110
Eliade, Mircea, 235
Eliot, George, 165
Eliot, T. S., 34
Elizabeth II of England, 71
Elkes, Joel, 166
Ellis, Havelock, 42, 45, 61
Engels, Friedrich, 168
Equanil, 92, 98, 105
Ergot, xiv, 45, 154
Ernst, Max, 187
Esdaile, James, 111
ESP, see Psychic phenomena
Esquire, 92, 111, 114, 129
Ether, 4, 98, 129, 131
Ethylene disulphonate, 153
Euripides, 122, 150
Evans-Wentz, W. Y., 48
Ezekiel, 65, 158, 192, 203
Fabing, Howard, 101, 103
Falstaff, Sir John, 166
Farrelly, Frances, 73
Fasting, 196
Fate Magazine, 210
Fausett, Hugh, 160
Felice, Philippe de, 198. Foules en Delire: 22; Poisons Sacres: 198
Fly agaric, see Amanita muscaria Fouchette, 168
Frenquel, 100, 101, 103-4
Freud, Sigmund, 35, 116, 254
Fuseli, John Henry, 72
Galton visualizers, 41, 143
Gardner, Reid, 235
Garrett, Eileen, 37, 58, 72, 131
Gestalt therapy, 235
Gin, 150
Godel, Alice, 68
Godel, Roger, 56, 68
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 88
Gospel of St. John, The, 102
Graves, Robert, 235, 236
Guardi, Francesco, 49
Gulliver’s Travels, 216
Happiness Pill, see Equanil and Miltown
Hart, Hornell, 126
Hashish, 24, 96, 98, 120, 123, 137, 198; see also Cannabis
Heard, Gerald, 67, 69, 70, 83, 86, 87, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, 143
Hebb, D. O., 57, 130, 155, 195
Heffter, Arthur, xvi
Heim, Roger, 141, 181, 199
Hemingway, Ernest, 157
Henbane, 136, 147
Hennell, Thomas, Witnesses, The: 105
Herd-poisoning, 22, 124-7
Heroin, xiv, 4, 98, 128, 134
Hesse, Hermann, 146
Hibbert Journal, 32
Hidden Persuaders, The, 170
Histamine, 197, 275
Hitler, Adolf, 125, 127, 170
Hoffer, Abram, 32, 37, 40, 53, 129, 143-4
Hoffmann-LaRoche Laboratories, 31
Hofmann, Albert, xi-xiii, 76, 141, 145, 181, 199-200, 210, 213-14
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 119
Housman, A. E., 135, 213, 253
Hubbard, Albert M., 67, 69-70, 71, 80, 83, 86, 87, 108
Huxley, Aldous, Antic Hay: xv; Brave New World: xvi, xvii, 3, 5, 11, 13-15, 92-5, 100, 113, 129, 134, 135, 163, 170-2, 178, 238; Brave New World Revisited (article), 92-99, 105, 146; Brave New World Revisited (book): 129, 134-40; Crome Yellow: xv; Cicadas, The: xv; Collected Essays: 218; Culture and the Individual: 247-56; Defeat of Youth, The: xv; Devils of Loudun, The: 22-5, 29; Doors of Perception, The: xi, 32, 36, 40, 41, 44-5°, 5*, 52, 55, 75, 89, 178, 179, 180, 223, 234, 236, 238, 245; Drugs that Shape Mens Minds: 146-56, 158; Exploring the Borderlands of the Mind: 210-16; Far Continents of the Mind, The: 58-60; Final Revolution, The: 163-73; Genius and the Goddess, The: 68, 73, 129; Heaven and Hell: xi, xvi, 61, 67, 68, 89-91, 100, 109, 180; History of Tension, The: 114, 117-28; Island: xiii, xvii, 38, 74, 76-7, 78, 100, 111, 141, 181, 185, 218, 222, 227, 234, 237, 238, 239-43, 255, 257, 258, 262, 264, 266; Jesting Pilate: xv; Leda: xv; Literature and Science: 244; London interview: 188-9; Mescaline and the ‘Other World, 61-6; Orion: 299; Paris Review interview: 176-9; Texts and Pretexts: 32; Those Barren Leaves: xv; Time Must Have a Stop: xv, 17-21; Treatise on Drugs, A: 3-5; Visionary Experience (Copenhagen): 190-209; 271; Wanted, a New Pleasure: 6- 10; World of Light, The: 3; Writers and Readers: 16
Huxley, Ellen, 73, 113, 115, 116, 264
Huxley, Julian xvii, 37, 38, 57, 112, 134
Huxley, Laura Archera, 38, 67, 74, 88, 100, 110, 113, 142, 161-2, 238, 257. This Timeless Moment: 74-9, 80, 217-33, 257-66; You Are Not the Target: 221
Huxley, Leonard, xv
Huxley, Maria, 33, 34, 36, 37, 44, 54, 67, 69, 78, 86, 102, 103, 224-6, 238, 257, 258, 265
Huxley, Matthew, 73, 113, 238, 264
Huxley, Thomas Henry, xvii, 211
Hyams, Joe, 157
Hypnosis, 30, 37, 59, 76, 90, 100, 101-2, 112, 129, 131, 141, 194, 211, 234, 246; see also Narcosynthesis
Indra, 122
Iproniazid, 138, 153
Isaiah, 123
Isherwood, Margaret, 157, 160
Jaensch, H., 45
James, William, 25, 120-1, 122, 146, 148, 154, 155, 160, 181, 211, 212, 214, 250, 254. Varieties of Religious Experience: 25, 120-1, 148
Janiger, Oscar, 186
Jeremiah, 123
Job, 201
Johnson, Raynor, Watcher on the Hills: 175, 202
Julian of Norwich, 159
Jung, Carl Gustav, 52, 62, 64, 88, 203
Jünger, Ernst, Besuch auf Godenholm: xi
Kast, Eric, 257
Katz, Sidney, 43, 55
Kava kava, 4, 120
Kawa, see Kava kava
Keats, John, 72
Kennedy, John F., 259, 263
Kerr, Deborah, 113
King, Francis, 3
Kircher, Athanasius, 71, 207
Kitselman, A. L., 54
Kline, Nathan, 161
Klüver, Heinrich, Mescal: 63, 203
Krishna, 228-9
Krishnamurti, 211, 214
LaGuardia Report, 134
Laudanum, see Opium Laughing gas, see Nitrous oxide Law, William, 46
Lawrence, D. H., 34, 67, 295
Leary, Timothy, 174, 180, 183, 185, 186, 187, 200, 208, 234, 237, 244, 246, 247, 260. High Priest: 180-2; Psychedelic Experience, The: 257, 260, 267-269
LeCron, Leslie, 54
Lee, Paul, 245
Lewin, Louis, 3, 44. Phantastica: 3-4, 11
Lilly, John C, 57, 130, 155, 195
Littwin, George, 180
Lodge, Oliver, Raymond: 91
Loos, Anita, 73
Louis XIV of France, 87, 167-8
LSD, xi, xii, xvi, 11, 43, 45, 53, 56, 62, 63, 66, 67, 72, 74-8, 80, 84, 86, 87-9, 90, 92, 99, 100, 101, 109, 112, 116, 129-30, 131, 132, 137, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161-2, 174, 176-9, 186, 187, 188-9, 199, 219, 223, 234, 235, 236, 237, 244, 245, 246, 257, 262-4, 266
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, 247
Lysergic acid, see LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, see LSD
Lysergic acid amide, xii
Lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide, xii
Macleans Magazine, 43, 55
Maharaja of Kashmir, 234
Mandragora, see Mandrake Mandrake, 147
Mann, Thomas, 157
Martin, John, 72
Marvell, Andrew, 213
Marx, Karl, 122, 135, 168
Masefield, John, 234
Maslow, Abraham, 202
Maté, see Yerba maté
Maugham, W. Somerset, 234
Menninger Foundation, 161, 174
Meprobamate, see Miltown
Merton, Thomas, 157
Mescalin, xi, xii, xvi, 3, 11, 22, 24, 31, 32, 33, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61-5, 66, 67, 68-9, 70, 72, 75, 80, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 99, 101-2, 103-4, 109-10, 115, 116, 129-30, 131, 132, 141, 154, 157-8, 160, 178-9, 180, 188-9, 190, 236-7, 245, 258
Metzner, Ralph, Psychedelic Experience, The: 257
Mexican mushrooms, see Psilocybe mexicana
Micah, 123
Milarepa, 195
Milkweed, 134, 198
Milton, John, 104, 135, 181, 200. Paradise Lost: 100, 104, 200
Miltown, 92, 98, 105, 117, 137, 139, 210
Mitchell, S. Weir, 42, 45, 61, 64
Mitchison, Naomi, 53
Mohammed, 202
Moksha-medicine, xiii, xvi, xvii, 38, 44, 181-2, 238-43, 257
Morant, Soulié de, 212
Morning glory seed, see Ololiuqui
Morphine, 4, 5, 12, 126, 259
Mozart, W. A., 87, 241
Napoleon I, 168, 169
Narcosynthesis, 68, 140
Native American Church, 105
New York Academy of Science, 113, 114
Newsday, 134
Niacinamide, 129
Nicolas, Joep, 104
Nicotinic acid, 153
Nitrous oxide, 25, 129, 131, 146, 155, 160, 214
Noah, 97,120
Ocampo, Victoria, 109
Ololiuqui, xiv, 51, 54, 67, 98, 145
Opium, 4, 24, 96, 97, 98, 120, 122, 135, 136, 147, 150, 198, 254
Orwell, George, xvi, 94. 1984: 94
Osgood, C. E., 215
Osis, Karlis, 194
Osmond, Humphry, xii, xvi, 22, 29, 31, 32-9,40,43,45,46, 53, 55, 56, 57, 61, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 80, 83, 86, 100, 101, 105, 107, 108, no, 112, 114, 131, 132, 141, 142, 157, 161, 174, 179, 180, 183, 185, 238, 244, 258, 262
Page, Irvine, 135
Palestrina, G. P. da, 86-7
Parapsychology, 37, 51, 58, 70, 108
Parapsychology Foundation, 58, 194, 211
Paris Review, 176
Pascal, Blaise, 81
Pavlov, I. P., 170, 185, 186
Penfield, Wilder, 72
Pentothal, 139
Percodan, 259
Peyote, xii, xvi, 4, 42, 44-5, 53, 54, 63, 67, 85, 89,98, 110, 122, 137, 146, 154, 179, 199, 203
Peyotl, see Peyote
Pfeiffer, Virginia, 217, 232, 259, 263, 264
Phanerothyme, see Psychedelic drugs
Planetè, 210
Plato, 192. Phaedo: 192
Playboy, xvi-xvii
Plotinus, 181, 191, 202, 253
Pope, Alexander, 190
Poppy, see Opium
Price, H. H., 212, 214
Psilocybe mexicana, xii, 100, 105, 122, 132, 141, 181, 187, 199- 200, 226, 234
Psilocybin, xii, xvi-xvii, 130, 141, 145, 162, 174, 181, 183-4, 190, 199-200, 208, 217, 219, 226, 235, 236, 237, 255
Psychedelic drugs, xii, 17, 32, 37, 38, 61, 100, 107, 132, 141, 146, 185, 234, 236-7, 247, 254-6
Psychedelic guide, 74, 76, 78, 217, 220
Psychedelic Research Project, 89, 174, 180
Psychedelic Review, 244
Psychic phenomena, 54, 56, 76, 84, 87, 129, 132, 211, 215
Psychodelic, see Psychedelic drugs
Psychotomimetic, see Psychedelic drugs
Puharitch, Andrija, 56, 72-3, 108
Randall, John, 161
Raymond, Harold, 42, 55
Redon, Odilon, 178
Rembrandt, 232
Reps, Paul, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: 217, 231, 235
Reserpine, 137
Restrictive environment, see Sensory deprivation
Reti, Ladislao, 55
Rhine, J. B., 52, 58, 132
Rig-veda, 11, 134
Ritalin, 213
Rockefeller, Nelson, 70
Rouhier, Alexandre, xvi
Royal Society of Literature, 234
Russell, Bertrand, 34, no
Russell, George (“A.E.”), 193, 280
Sabazius, 24, 122; see also Beer
Sabina, María, 199, 200
Sacred mushrooms, see Psilocybe mexicana
St. Anthony, 81, 155, 158, 195
St. Augustine, 222
St. Dionysius the Areopagite, 181
St. Francis, 82
St. Jean Vianney, 198
St. John of the Cross, 122, 278
St. Paul, 159, 195, 202
St. Peter, 148
St. Theresa of Avila, 122, 148
St. Thomas Aquinas, 41
Sales, François de, 85
Sandoz Laboratories, 162, 237
Santayana, George, 191
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 132
Saturday Evening Post, 143, 146, 158
Schizophrenia, 29, 32, 37, 42-3, 46, 47, 51, 52, 90, 91, 200
Scopolamine, 16, 98, 139
Sebastian, John, 87-8
Séchehaye, Marguerite, Journal d’une Schizophrène: 201
Self-flagellation, 197
Sensory deprivation, 51, 57
Senta, Quaglia, 212
Serotonin, 136
Shakespeare, William, 125, 164, 165, 166. Hamlet: 247; Julius Caesar: 125
Shaman, 4, 54, 73, 105, 187, 200, 276
Sheldon, William, 34, 37, 143, 166
Shelley, P. B., 71
Shiki, 48
Shulgin, Alexander, xv-xvii
Sleep deprivation, 197
Smart, Christopher, 244-5
Smith, Phillip E., 129, 131. Chemical Glimpses of Reality: 130
Smythies, John, 30, 32, 41, 55, 144
Society for Psychical Research, 212
Socrates, 192
Soma (drug of Ancient Aryans), 11, 24, 96, 100, 105, 120, 122, 134-5, 198
Soma (drug of Brave New World), xvi, xvii, 12-14, 92, 96, 97-8, 134-6, 138, 139, 179, 238
Soma (modern prescription drug), 163, 171
Späth, Ernst, xvi
Spencer, Herbert, 211
Stalin, Josef, 170, 211
Steiner, Madame, 69-70
Suger, Abbot of St.-Denis, 206
Surin, Father, 196
Suzuki, D. T., Essence of Buddhism: 132; Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist: 132
Tea, 136, 213
Telepathy, see Psychic phenomena
Teonanacatl, see Psilocybe mexicana
This Week Magazine, 157
Tibetan Book of the Dead, The, 44, 47, 48, 67, 217, 218, 224-7, 257, 258-9, 260
Time Magazine, 161
Toadstool, see Amanita muscaria
Tobacco, 134, 138
Tolstoy, Leo, 163, 165, 194. Death of Ivan Ilyitch, The: 194
Tomorrow Magazine, 55
Traherne, Thomas, 205
Twilight sleep, 98
Uexküll, J. J. von, 101
Van Gogh, Vincent, 177, 205
Verdi, Giuseppe, 87
Veronal, 4, 98
Waley, Arthur, Monkey: 54
Wallace Laboratories, 171
Walter, Grey, 211
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, xv
Wasson, Robert Gordon, 11, 73, 105, 130, 132, 141, 199. Russia, Mushrooms and History: 105
West, L. Joly, 131, 186, 197
White, Claire, Nicolas, 234
Whitehead, Alfred North, 124
Whorf, Benjamin, 101
Williams, Roger, 147
Wine, 24, 120, 122, 123
Woodroffe, John (“Arthur Avalon”), 234-5
Wordsworth, William, 125, 130, 158, 167, 181, 193, 204, 246, 251, 252. Expostulation and Reply: 252; Lyrical Ballads: 167; Ode on the Intimations of Immortality: 158, 193, 204
World Academy of Arts & Science, 38, 234
Yagé, see Ayahuasca
Yerba maté, 136
Yoga, 195, 198, 235
Zaehner, R. C., Mysticism, Sacred and Profane: 214
Zilboorg, Gregory, 106
Zimmer, Heinrich, Philosophies of India, The: 235