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I have America surrounded : the life of Timothy Leary / John Higgs.

Micrologus' library

Ignis sacer : una storia culturale del "fuoco sacro" dall'antichità al Settecento / Alessandra Foscati.

The discovery of LSD and subsequent investigations on naturally occuring hallucinogens / Albert Hofmann.

<p>"A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to western modernity. Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word 'psychedelic' was coined to describe it. But its story extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples. The peyote cactus, used since pre-Hispanic times in Mexico, was adopted by Plains Indian tribes during their forced captivity on the reservations, and was brought to the attention of western science by pioneering doctors and ethnologists. During the twentieth century, mescaline ranged across the new frontiers of western culture. It was used by psychologists investigating the secrets of consciousness, spiritual seekers from Aleister Crowley to the presidents of the Morman Church, artists exploring creative derangement and psychiatrists looking to cure schizophrenia, before kick-starting the sixties counterculture. Meanwhile peyote played a vital role in preserving and shaping Native American identity. Drawing on botany, pharmacology, ethnography and the mind sciences, and examining the mescaline experiences of figures from William James to Walter Benjamin to Hunter S. Thompson, this is an enthralling narrative of mescaline's many lives."--Jacket.</p>

xi, 297 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.

Neuroscienze e Società

362 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 29 cm.

Pharmakon : storia dello psicotropismo / Claudio Pogliano.

Les champignons divinatoires utilisés dans les rites des Indiens Mazatèques, recueillis au cours de leur premier voyage au Mexique, en 1953, par Mme Valentina Pavlovna Wasson et M.R. Gorgon Wasson / note de Roger Heim.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

xiv, 387 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

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I have America surrounded : the life of Timothy Leary / John Higgs.

Ignis sacer : una storia culturale del "fuoco sacro" dall'antichità al Settecento / Alessandra Foscati.

The discovery of LSD and subsequent investigations on naturally occuring hallucinogens / Albert Hofmann.

Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.

Pharmakon : storia dello psicotropismo / Claudio Pogliano.

Les champignons divinatoires utilisés dans les rites des Indiens Mazatèques, recueillis au cours de leur premier voyage au Mexique, en 1953, par Mme Valentina Pavlovna Wasson et M.R. Gorgon Wasson / note de Roger Heim.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

The psychedelic Renaissance : reassessing the role of psychedelic drugs in 21st century psychiatry and society / Dr. Ben Sessa.

Las drogas en la prehistoria : evidencias arqueológicas del consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en Europa / Elisa Guerra Doce.

Psychedelia and other colours / by Rob Chapman.

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I have America surrounded : the life of Timothy Leary / John Higgs.

Ignis sacer : una storia culturale del "fuoco sacro" dall'antichità al Settecento / Alessandra Foscati.

The discovery of LSD and subsequent investigations on naturally occuring hallucinogens / Albert Hofmann.

Mescaline : a global history of the first psychedelic / Mike Jay.

Pharmakon : storia dello psicotropismo / Claudio Pogliano.

Les champignons divinatoires utilisés dans les rites des Indiens Mazatèques, recueillis au cours de leur premier voyage au Mexique, en 1953, par Mme Valentina Pavlovna Wasson et M.R. Gorgon Wasson / note de Roger Heim.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

The psychedelic Renaissance : reassessing the role of psychedelic drugs in 21st century psychiatry and society / Dr. Ben Sessa.

Las drogas en la prehistoria : evidencias arqueológicas del consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en Europa / Elisa Guerra Doce.

Psychedelia and other colours / by Rob Chapman.

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