Journal Article The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens Get access The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, with a foreword by Heinrich Kluver. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, USA. 1973. 300 pages. Bibliography includes 453 references, 78 photgraphs and line drawings. Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 8, Issue 3, Summer 1973, Page 122,...
Hallucinogenic agents have the ability to amalgamate or terminate certain neural activities. The psychedelic experience has been described as consisting of visions of new dimensions … to fantasies of eternal loneliness. LSD is a modern sacrament of the so-called drug culture which psychologically represents the snow-fort of a capricious army facing hell-fire. What can be done about the use of...
Psychedelic drugs have been used for individual psychotherapy in prison settings. This paper outlines two studies that explore the use of psychedelic drugs in correction. In 1961 Timothy Leary and Walter Houston Clark administered psilocybin to thirty-three prisoners at the Massachusetts Correctional Insti tution. This program seemed to have positive effects on the inmate-subjects. William H....
A social movement is a dynamic phenomenon that necessitates an appropriate theoretical perspective for adequate analysis. An interactionist perspective provides a useful dynamic mode of analysis. Following a historical resumé of the LSD movement led by Timothy Leary, the genesis of the movement, the development of its ideology and program, and motivational factors involved in the recruitment of...
Abstract 47 undergraduate male volunteers were asked 2 questions relating to their use of marijuana and/or psychedelic drugs (e.g., LSD, mescaline, psilocybin) and were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A). The HGSHS:A scores of Ss who had, at some time, taken any of these drugs averaged 2 points higher than scores of Ss who had not. Further research...
Die Anwendung von Schwellendosen eines Halluzinogens (LSD-25, Psilocybin, CZ-74 und CEY-19) in der Psychotherapie erstreckt sich in der hier beschriebenen sog. psycholytischen Behandlung auf die Aktivierung unbewußten Konfliktmaterials in einer besonders intensiv erlebbaren und für den Probanden sinnträchtigen Weise. Die chemisch-pharmakologische Eigenwirkung der Halluzinogene kann über ihrer...
In their manual based upon The Tibetan Book of the Dead , Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary discuss the signs of the ‘Third Bardo’ existence in a psychedelic experience in the vocabulary of Ken Kesey's fiction: Where Tibetans saw demons and beasts of prey, a Westerner may see impersonal machinery grinding, or depersonalizing and controlling devices of different futuristic...
Abstract The abuse of nutmeg for narcotic purposes has led to renewed chemical and pharmacological interest in this drug. Several allylbenzene derivatives whose biological transformation products have structures resembling mescaline and amphetamine have been identified as psychotropic constituents. It is suggested that the intensity of the hallucinogenic action of these compounds is due to the...
Twenty-two years of investigation of spider-web-building and its sensitivity to drugs has produced insight into this invertebrate behavior pattern and its vulnerability. Most data were collected by measuring and analyzing photographs of webs built under different circumstances; groups of web data were subjected to statistical comparisons. Another approach was through analysis of motion pictures...
The action of LSD, mescaline and Sernyl® onthe aggressiveness of isolated mice and killing reaction ofrats was investigated. At some dose range, LSD decreased the aggressiveness on isolation time. Mescaline was a strong in mice but not in rats whileSernyl slightly decreased the killing reaction and decreasedor increased the aggressiveness of mice according to dose level.