Full Description
Over the past decade, many famous entrepreneurs and celebrities have begun to open up about their life-changing experiences with psychedelics that led to their personal successes. But less well-known are the wisdom-bringing psychedelic experiences of many top psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and others who have taken what they learned from their entheogenic experiences and applied it in their professions, leading to therapeutic advancements, scientific discoveries, and healing for thousands.
In this profound book, Dr. Richard Louis Miller shares stories of psychedelic transformation, insight, and wisdom from his conversations with 19 scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers, each of whom has been self-experimenting with psychedelic medicines, sub rosa, for decades. We hear from scientific psychonaut Amanda Feilding, founder of the Beckley Foundation; ethnobotanical explorer Dennis McKenna; research advocate and head of MAPS Rick Doblin; and the "Sunshine Makers": Tim Scully, the scientist taught to make LSD by Owsley Stanley, and Michael Randall, the leader of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. We learn about recasting "bad trips" as unfamiliar challenges from psychedelic swami Dr. Allan Ajaya, therapeutic uses of MDMA from "the love doctor" Charley Wininger, decades of insights from psychedelic professor Thomas B. Roberts, as well as several others.
Revealing the psychedelic wisdom uncovered in spite of decades of the "War on Drugs," Dr. Miller and his contributors show how LSD and other psychedelics offer a pathway to creativity, healing, innovation, and liberation.
Contents
FOREWORD
The Wisdom of Psychedelic Elders
Rick Doblin
INTRODUCTION
Confessions of the Psychedelic Elder
SCIENTISTS
1 Tim Scully and Michael Randall
The Sunshine Makers Revisit Their Quest to Turn On the Whole World
2 Amanda Feilding
A Consciousness Researcher on Her Self-Experimentation with LSD
3 Dennis McKenna
An Ethnobotanical Explorer Reflects on a Lifetime of Curiosity
4 Rick Doblin
Pioneering the Legalization of Psychedelic Medicines
DOCTORS
5 Dean Edell
America's Doctor Spreads the Word
6 Friederike Meckel Fischer
A Convicted Psychotherapist Describes Working Underground
7 Howard Levene and David Geisinger
Understanding Patients' Life Experiences
THERAPISTS
8 Allan Ajaya
Transcendent Awareness of Underlying Unity
9 Charley Wininger
The Love Doctor on Happiness-Inducing Experiences
10 Mariavittoria Mangini
Psychedelics and the Social Matrix
11 Dr. Richard Louis Miller
Making Meaning from the Psychedelic Experience
TEACHERS
12 Thomas B. Roberts
Upgrading the Human Mind with Psychedelics
13 Clifton Ross
Psychedelic Breakthroughs on the Road of Recovery
14 Cliff Barney
Living and Writing in a Different Reality
15 Jerry and Julie Brown
Scholars of Psychedelics Say There Is Always More to Learn
16 Charles Bush
The Psychedelic Cinerama
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
