Book Reviews About The Drug LSD
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Book Reviews About The Drug LSD
Acid Dreams:
The Complete Social History of LSD:
The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
An accurate, well researched book. As the title implies, it covers such things as the origin of LSD and the CIA funded research for use as a mind control tool. But more importantly it explains how LSD and other drugs have affected society.
Not a boring text book, this is probably the best book available on the social history of LSD from its synthesis in the 1940's to the present day. Students looking for information about LSD should borrow this book at a local library.
Acid Dreams Flashbacks:
A Personal and Cultural History of an Era
From planning the psychedelic revolution to discussing Dr. Albert Hoffman's legendary bicycle ride home after the world's first deliberate ingestion of LSD.
Timothy Leary's passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. This is Leary's original autobiography in an all new edition.
Flashbacks High Priest
Chronicles 16 psychedelic trips taken in the days before LSD was made illegal. The trip guides or high priests include Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, William S. Burroughs, Godsdog, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Willy (a junkie from NYC), Huston Smith, Frank Barron and others.
A fascinating window into an era, this first new edition of High Priest in over 25 years includes a foreword by Allen Ginsberg, and a new introduction by Timothy Leary.
High Priest Liquid Conspiracy:
LSD, JFK, the CIA, Area 51, and UFOs
A look into the world of the CIA and military. Areas explored include mind control, the JFK Conspiracy, Marilyn Monroe, black helicopters, contrails, roswell, and more.
This book is filled with illustrations, maps, and drawings to support the text.
Liquid Conspiracy LSD
This is the book to get if you know your way around a chemistry lab and would like to produce LSD with readily available materials. Includes recipes from companies that have manufactured LSD on a large scale.
Besides the manufacturing information the history and uses of the drug are examined, but to a much lesser degree. With contributions from doctors and therapists that have used LSD to treat patients.
LSD LSD: My Problem Child
Written by Albert Hofmann, the man who first synthesized and used LSD. This is his story about the drug, how it was made, the first acid trip, and how society reacted to LSD after the effects of the drug were realized. Contains Hofmann's communications with prominent personalities regarding LSD.
LSD: My Problem Child LSD Psychotherapy:
Exploring the Frontiers of the Hidden Mind
Gives a detailed picture of the various forms of therapy including, psycholitic therapy, psychedelic therapy, hypnodelic therapy, etc. The book explains various aspects of the therapy sessions, the effects of various environments, stimuli, and more.
It discusses the sessions, cures, resolutions of conflicts, breakdown of neurotic defense systems, etc. The book concludes with an appendix on the effects of LSD on chromosomes.
LSD Psychotherapy LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process
An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the creative process based on the results of one of the longest clinical studies of LSD that took place between 1954 and 1962, before LSD was illegal.
In 1954 a Los Angeles psychiatrist began experimenting with a then new chemical discovery known as LSD-25. Over an eight-year period Dr. Oscar Janiger gave LSD-25 to more than 950 men and women, ranging in age from 18 to 81 and coming from all walks of life.
Includes personal reports, artwork, and poetry from the original sessions as testimony of the impact of LSD on the creative process.
LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process Politics of Ecstasy
Timothy Leary's most significant work on the social and political ramifications of psychedelics. The book looks at religion, politics, and psychology.
First published in 1968, this collection spans the period from research at Harvard to the San Francisco Summer of Love.
Politics of Ecstasy Practical LSD Manufacture
Several procedures for extracting LSD from natural sources, as well as a simple process for extracting the hallucinogenic substance 2, 4, 5-trimethoxy-amphetamine (TMA-2) from the common, widely-available calamus plant.
Practical LSD manufacture for a chemist. This is not recommended for the lay person or anyone else without practical lab experience.
Practical LSD Manufacture Psychedelic Prayers & Other Meditations
Written while Tim Leary was visiting India in 1965 and finished the following year. Psychedelic Prayers is an adaptation of Book 1 of the Tao Te Ching.
With a new introduction by Ralph Metzner, Leary's Harvard colleague, this book of poetry and meditations is being published in its first new edition in 25 years.
Psychedelic Prayers & Other Meditations Storming Heaven:
LSD and the American Dream
An interesting history of psychedelic drugs and cultural mindset of the 50's and 60's. It includes information about pharmacology, psychiatry, academia, social history, and more.
For an entire generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, LSD, the hallucinatory drug which promised liberation of human consciousness, was the catalyst of an all-pervasive cultural revolution.
Storming Heaven The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The book delves into the heart of 60's America, giving a weird and wonderful account of people, pranks and LSD.
The book is written in a way to re-create the feel of the time period, getting the feel of being On The Bus. Over 400 pages.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test The Little Book of Acid
This little book (under 100 pages) gives you a short history and chemistry of LSD with examples of the forms LSD takes.
It might be appreciated by someone without chemistry experience looking to synthesize psychedelic substances. It has legal ways to extract LSD like substances (LSA) from Hawaiian Wood Rose and other legal sources.
The Little Book of Acid The Psychedelic Reader:
Selected from the Psychedelic Review
The Psychedelic Review was founded in 1963 as a serious journal dedicated to the study of the mind-expanding potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelic substances.
Presenting experts in the fields of anthropology, religion, pharmacology, poetry and metaphysics, this ground breaking journal had a dramatic impact on its times, attracting a large and avid readership among academics and the burgeoning psychedelic underground.
The articles included in this anthology appeared long before the media, the Beatles, and the counterculture reduced psychedelia to yet another faddish commodity.
The Psychedelic Reader The Search for the Manchurian Candidate:
The CIA and Mind Control
Thorough book about U.S government mind control research, specifically the CIA. The CIA's obsession with LSD is fascinating. MK-ULTRA was the code name the Agency used for its program directed at gaining control over human behavior through covert use of chemical and biological materials.
The MK-ULTRA program ran from 1953 to 1964 at which time it was renamed MK-SEARCH and continued until 1973. It did an undetermined number of bizarre and grotesque experiments that included hypnosis, electronic brain implants, microwave transmissions, parapsychology, and others.
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate The Secret Chief:
Conversations With a Pioneer
of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement
Early in his career, after being trained as a Jungian analyst, Jacob discovered the enormous potential that psychedelics had for psychotherapy.
Because of the abundant psychological benefits and the incredible spiritual transformations that he witnessed in his clients, Jacob chose to utilize substances like LSD and MDMA in his practice despite their illegality.
The book covers the process that Jacob developed for selecting and preparing candidates, information about the psychoactive substances and their proper dosages, along with guiding principles for running both individual and group sessions.
The Secret Chief The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience:
The Classic Guide to the Effects of
LSD on the Human Psyche
A book that looks at the therapeutic and consciousness illuminating value of LSD and other psychedelics like peyote.
A must have book for anyone interested in using psychedelics in a therapeutic setting so that the chances of errors or mistakes in guidance be effectively minimized.
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience Trips:
How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
Sounds like it would be a boring technical book, but it is very entertaining and informative at the same time. Explore what hasn't been told about the brain's mysterious ability to hallucinate.
Details what neuroscientists, psychopharmacologists, medicinal chemists, and psychiatrists have learned about LSD and its effects on the brain in the 54 years since its discovery. 132 illustrations, 32 in color (By Robert Crumb).
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