Mystic Chemist by Hagenbach, Dieter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction Foreword by Stanislav Grof 1 Industry and Idyll in the Provinces

The Beginnings of the Modern Era From Health Resort to Industrial Town Founding a Family The Mystical Wonders of Nature

2 With a Clear Goal

Illness and Social Poverty A Model Student Brighter Horizons From Clerk to Chemist

3 Call of the Plants

The Chemistry is Right in Basel In the Footsteps of Paracelsus Squill and Foxglove

4 Marriage and Family Bliss

Turning Point Beginning of an Eternal Love War and Peace

5 LSD Finds Its Discoverer

In the Beginning was the Ergot The Synthesis Potency The First Trip The Assistant

6 The Dose Makes the Poison

Successful Drugs From Phantasticum to Entheogen The Effect of LSD Classification of Psychoactive Substances According to Their Effect Drugs

7 Researchers Discover LSD

Mescaline Experiments on Animals The First Experiment on Humans The Psychotomimetic Paradigm A Helpful Tool for Psychotherapy Realms of Consciousness Trauma Therapy LSD Comes to England Studies in Saskatchewan Behind the Iron Curtain LSD Conquers America

8 The Search for a Truth Serum

Dividing the World Experiments without Limits Understatement Iron Silence Serious Sweden In the Name of the Fatherland The Mystery of the Cursed Bread

9 Flesh of the Gods

The Mushrooms Reach Basel The Kingdom of Sacred Plants and Mushrooms Teonanácatl Exploration Banker and Mycologist The Active Substance Psilocybin and Psilocin The Magic Vine Distrust The Magic Circle

10 The Mexico Expedition

In the Land of the Mazatecs Ceremony with a Magical Plant The Spirit in the Pill The Consequences

11 Friendships and Encounters

Family Life Circles Interweavings Hermit in the Crystalline World Radiance and Convergence Almost a Friendship The Networker The Coronation

12 Metamorphoses at Harvard

Vision of a New Psychology Psychedelic Revelation Academic Mushroom Circles Liberation Behind Bars The Man with the Mayonnaise Jar The End of Peace, Joy and Magic Mushrooms Millbrook Bureaucratic Hurdles The Woman from Washington Founding Years Multimedia Spectacle Changes of All Kinds Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

13 Fuel of the Sixties

A Molecule Changed the World The Bohemians of Manhattan From the Laboratory into the Cuckoo's Nest Can You Pass the Acid Test? The Hog Farm Chemistry in the Underground The Trips Festival Dionysian Festivals Hippies? Hippies! A Peaceful Cultural Revolution Chemists for a Better World Flowers in Their Hair, Love in Their Hearts, LSD in Their Heads The Diggers Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Sounds of the Sixties Acid House, Psytrance, Goa Trance The Desert Lives Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Woodstock Hair Swinging London Trips Around the World

14 The Great Repression

Brotherhood of Eternal Love Demonization Verdict and Prohibition Underground Therapy The Empire Strikes Back Crime Scene Missile Silo Dedication to Freedom Outrage

15 Humane Therapies, Transpersonal Visions

Divine Lightning Thirty Years of Research Encounter With Death The Cartographer Expanding of the Image of Humanity The Spectrum of Consciousness Human Potential An Alternative Interaction at Esalen

16 Spiritual Dimensions

Mushrooms Instead of Fish The Missing Taboo Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy Journeys to the East In the Here and Now Buddhists and Psychedelics Ecologist and Buddhist Zen Priest and Animal Welfare Advocate Instant Nirvana Cosmologist of Joy Psychosis and Enlightenment Tool of the Mind

17 Creativity and Art

Intoxicated Literati Bee God and Sacred Mirrors A New Dimension of Art The Creativity Pill Psychedelia A New Perspective Encounters with Artists Comic Strips Art Instead of LSD High in Hollywood

18 Source of Inspiration

From Uranium to LSD Open Minds, Open Systems All is One Legal, Illegal, Digital Gaia Symbiosis Nobel Prizes Peak Experiences

19 Ways of Life

Another Discovery Paradise Found Again The Company Farewell to Sandoz Father and Apostle

20 Legacies

The Problem Child The Translator The Media Plants of the Gods Wisdom of the Greeks Scholarly Dialogue At Eleusis

21 Insights and Outlooks

A Good Question A Model of Reality Philosophy and Ecology Honors and Awards

22 Stimulus and Impetus

A Belgian in Burg Visitors From Around the World Border Crosser The Tank and the Deep Self The Indian from Hamburg The Trip Advisor The Third Member

23 Wisdom of Years

Reflections on Nature Secrets of a Long Life Frontier Areas Art and Ability A Grandson Remembers Albert Hofmann Turns One Hundred The Old Man and His Child Yet Another Tribute

24 Between Earth and Heaven

Connections with the Whole World The Albert Hofmann Medal From Problem Child to Wonder Drug Back to the Future Behind Every Strong Man Farewell and Mourning Echo of a Life's Work The Ultimate Journey

Appendix

Retrospective on a Researcher's Life Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Publications by Albert Hofmann Photo Credits Index of Names About the Authors

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