Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a "best of" collection of articles and essays published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Topics include the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics--including MDMA,...

Cuando Albert Hofmann probó por primera vez el LSD, ignoraba que acababa de realizar uno de los hallazgos psicofarmacológicos más importantes de la historia y sin duda del siglo XX. El LSD se convirtió en una de las bases del movimiento hippie y en símbolo de la revolución contracultural en occidente. En este libro, un auténtico clásico, Hofmann cuenta todo el proceso de descubrimiento del LSD, los primeros efectos que observó, las investigaciones que se sucedieron y su irrupción en la cul...

"A meeting of nobody special about nothing in particular." An exquisite gathering of rascals including Albert Hoffmann (discoverer of LSD), Ram Dass (Richard Alpert, Ph.D.), Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., John Lilly, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen Gaskin, David Smith, M.D., and Irving Oyle, M.D. This is an audio "high"-school reunion guaranteed to blow your circuits however you're plugged in.

This ebook does not include illustrations.From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.Ask most people who flew the first aeroplane and you'll get the same response: Orville and Wilbur Wright. But ask a Brazilian the same question and yo...

“Caleidoscopiche immagini si agitavano dentro di me, si alternavano, si aprivano e si richiudevano in cerchi e spirali” Sebbene l’Lsd abbia già compiuto più di settant’anni, è tuttora dominante presso l’opinione pubblica una visione distorta di questo principio attivo psicotropo. Questo libro del suo scopritore contribuisce a fare chiarezza. “Ci sono esperienze di cui la maggior parte delle persone evita di parlare perché non si conformano alla realtà quotidiana e sfidano ogni spiegazione ...

LSD My Problem Child is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father and organic chemist, the late Albert Hofmann, PhD.Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition.In LSD: My Problem Child, Dr. Hofmann documents his trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD and ...

LSD My Problem Child is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father and organic chemist, the late Albert Hofmann, PhD.Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition.In LSD: My Problem Child, Dr. Hofmann documents his trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD and ...

In April 1943, working in his Sandoz laboratory, the Swiss research chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD-25, and thus changed the lives of millions over the next decades. Here he tells how LSD affected his own life and, in the process, weaves an intriguing story of mysticism in the midst of science

Unlock the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A deep exploration of secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two millennia.Uncover the evocative history of The Road to Eleusis. Once held in hushed whispers, the Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of secret rituals and initiations in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. They stood as an enigmatic cornerstone ...

Das neue Handbuch ist eine auf 12 Bände angelegte Edition des Verwaltungsrechts. Als wissenschaftliches Gemeinschaftswerk von zwei Herausgebern und rund 250 Autor*innen basiert es auf einer Gesamtkonzeption, die das deutsche, europäische und internationale Verwaltungsrecht als Einheit und in ihrer Interdependenz und Interaktion in den Blick nimmt. Die Bände wenden sich gleichermaßen an die verwaltungsrechtliche Praxis und die Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaft. Der Rechtsstoff wird enzyklopädis...

La vida no suele ser como la pinta la publicidad o el cine, sobretodo el fantàstico... Rafael Hoffman, un joven asesino a sueldo, amante de prostitutas, quebradero de cabezas para algunas chicas y renegado de su pasado. ¿Te gustaria conocer a alguien que pueda asesinarte mientras bailas y tu no percatarte? ¿Crees que se trata de un asesino cualquiera que mata por placer? Oh, ¿acaso quieres ver otra forma de ver la vida, cuando el mundo se destruye a si mismo?Este diario cuenta vari...

Diese zauberhafte Sammlung präsentiert zeitloser Geschichten, die den wahren Geist der Weihnacht einfangen und uns mit zeitlosen Botschaften von Hoffnung, Vergebung und Dankbarkeit inspirieren. Von berührenden Erzählungen bis hin zu festlichen Meisterwerken großer Autoren - diese Anthologie ist ideal, um die Weihnachtszeit mit Magie, Wärme und literarischer Eleganz zu bereichern. Die Sammlung ist ein Schatz für Bücherliebhaber und eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für lange Winterabende. Inhalt:...