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____________________________________________________ Psychedelics
Mystical experience, 131-38,
155-65, 407-8
characteristics of, 171-72
fourth way, the, 129-30
ineffability, 151
objectivity and reality, 150
paradoxicality, 150-51
persisting positive changes,
151-52
positive mood, 149
psychiatric attitude toward,
141, 407 n
religious experience distin-
guished from, 215
research factors, 159-65
sacredness, sense of, 150
schizophrenia and, 258-59
time and space, transcendence
of, 149
transiency, 151
typology of, 147-52
ultimate mystical union, 16
unity, 148-49
see also Meditation; Religion
Naranjo, Claudio, 110, 111
Natéma. See Yagé
Native American Church, 66-86,
145 n, 194, 217-18
Neo-American Church, 194, 422
Nervous system, effects of LSD
on, 198-213
Newell, Stephens, 400, 418-38
Newspapers. See Press, LSD and
Ogdon, J. H., 22
Oneirophrenia, 271
Ong, Walter, 216, 217
Opium, 8
Opium War, 7
Orozco y Berra, 95, 96
Osmond, Humphry, 21-28, 67-
86, 170-71, 186, 261, 269,
360-61, 364-65, 382, 383,
386, 387, 397, 461-78
Otto, Rudolf, 183-84
Pahnke, Walter, 130, 145-65,
185-86
Palmer, R. D., 287
Paramatman, 137
Paregoric, 8
Parsons, T., 419
Peckham, Morse, 445 n
Perceptual expansion, 314-19
Peyote, experiences described,
66-90
Pollard, J. C, 231
Posters, psychedelic, 226
Press, LSD and, 400-18, 472 n
complexity of topic, 402-3
coverage, quality of, 405
early coverage, 403-4
hippies, coverage of, 414-16
magazines, 416-18
negativity, reasons for, 400-1,
404-5, 411-12
underground press, 414
Prince, R., 271
Problem solving
psychedelics and, 239-57; ta-
bles, 243, 251-54
psychosis and, 274-75
Projection, 306-7
Psilocybin, 10, 20
experiences described, 35-44
nature of, 101-2
see also Mushrooms
Psychedelic, origin of term, 9
Psychedelic drugs
dangers of, 143, 471-72,
474-75
dependence on, 163
and the future, 461-78
historical background, 8-9,
146, 182-83
illegality of, 17, 62-63, 65,
138-45, 461-78
illicit production of, 466-67
interest in, permanence of,
465-67, 476-77
leisure and, 61-62, 445
nature of, 9
see also Illicit use of LSD;
LSD; Research, psychedelic;
Society, psychedelics and;
specific drugs