The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide · Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys by Fadiman, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Overview—Why This Book? And Frequently Asked Questions A Vision of a Whole Earth Stewart Brand PART ONE Transcendent Experience: Entheogenic Sessions

Introduction to Part One

1 Meeting the Divine Within

Part One: Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides The Guild of Guides

2 The Entheogenic Voyage

Part Two: Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides The Guild of Guides

3 Qualities of Transcendent Experience

Four Dominant Characteristics Alan Watts

4 Experiences of Psychedelic Pioneers

In Their Own Words Albert Hofmann, Ph.D., Aldous Huxley, Stanislav Grof, M.D., Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Ph.D., Alexander Shulgin, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Huston Smith, Ph.D., Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ph.D., Charles Tart, Ph.D., Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., Bill Wilson, and Peter Coyote

PART TWO Personal Growth and Self-Exploration in Psychedelic Sessions

Introduction to Part Two

5 Therapeutic Uses of Psychedelics

Psychotherapy and Healing

6 Things Can Go Wrong What You Need to Know

Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D.

7 Myths and Misperceptions

David Presti, Ph.D., and Jerome Beck, Ph.D.

8 Therapeutic Effectiveness of Single Guided Sessions PART THREE Enhanced Problem Solving in Focused Sessions

Introduction to Part Three

9 Breakthrough Research

Selective Enhancement of Creative Capacities Willis Harman, Ph.D., and James Fadiman, Ph.D.

10 Facilitation for Enhanced Problem Solving 11 Case Studies

Two Architects and Six Professionals

12 Group ProblemSolving Sessions

Willis Harman, Ph.D.

13 The Look Magazine Experiment

Designing the California Issue George Leonard

14 Closing the Doors of Perception

The Day the Research Ended

PART FOUR New Horizons

Introduction to Part Four

15 Can Sub-Perceptual Doses of Psychedelics Improve Normal Functioning? 16 Surveys of Current Users

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

17 The Inadvertent Pioneer

My Personal Account

18 Positive Possibilities for Psychedelics

A Time of Tentative Celebration

PART FIVE The Necessary, the Extraordinary, and Some Hard-Core Data

Introduction to Part Five

19 Entheogenic Journeys

A Checklist for Voyagers and Guides

20 Beyond LSD—Way Beyond

Ayahuasca Sessions and a Darkness Retreat Michael Wiese, “Anatole,” and Lindsey Vona

21 Behavioral Changes After Psychedelic Therapy

Lasting Results of High-Dose Single Sessions

22 A Questionnaire Study of Psychedelic Experiences

Willis Harman, Ph.D., and James Fadiman, Ph.D. Last Words Footnotes Notes About the Author About the Inner Traditions Books of Related Interest Copyright

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