book review

...the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book. In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was...

The following is excerpted from Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest, published by Evolver/Reality Sandwich in partnership with Tarcher/Penguin. from : link La Purga Purging during an ayahuasca ceremony is not like performing normal...

taken from : http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/drugs-and-culture-new-perspectives/ Drugs and Culture: New Perspectives “Drugs are not mere compounds with determined pharmacological properties that can be in essence definitely classified as good or bad. Their...

from : http://www.realitysandwich.com/beginning_birth_psychedelic_culture LSD is a drug that produces fear in people who don’t take it. --Timothy Leary It’s now almost half a century since that day in September 1961 when a mysterious fellow named Michael...

from http://www.realitysandwich.com/exile_nation_chapter_one_dead_time " EXILE NATION tells the dirty story none of us really wants to hear. But we all should be listening. Author Charles Shaw 'did time' in prison and lived to write about it. The antiquated...

from : http://www.realitysandwich.com/print/34204 By John Perry Barlow Feature The following is adapted from the Foreword to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: [1] Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass...

taken from : http://www.openexchange.org/features/JAS09/metzner.html Ralph Metzner, PhD, is a recognized pioneer in the exploration of consciousness and transformation. As a therapist he has promoted "green psychology" and shamanic ritual as techniques...

A book by Michael J. Winkelman and Thomas B. Roberts Reviews: This is one of the few recent books that treat this subject in a scholarly way and is recommended for all medical and academic libraries. Public libraries should also purchase it because such...

Plantes et chamanisme Jan Kounen, Jeremy Narby, Vincent Ravalec. 208 pg. Trois personnalités venant d'horizons divers mêlent pour la première fois leurs voix et témoignent librement d'une pratique qui échappe à l'ordinaire : la découverte et l'expérience...

DMT The Spirit Molecule: excerpts collected by Rajiva ... Giving something a name is not trivial and expectations can modify drug effects. Experiments injected volunteers with adrenaline, the fight or flight hormone, under different sets of expectations....