(Ebook) The Psychedelics by Humphry Osmond ( The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs ) and Vitamin B3 (Niacin, Nicotinic Acid, or Niacinamide) by Humphry Osmond, Bernard Aaronson, Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, Linus Pauling ISBN 9780385087742, 0385087748

(Ebook) The Psychedelics by Humphry Osmond ( The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs ) and Vitamin B3 (Niacin, Nicotinic Acid, or Niacinamide) by Humphry Osmond, Bernard Aaronson, Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, Linus Pauling ISBN 9780385087742, 0385087748

This book is a broad and serious inquiry into this much-discussed topic. It will enlighten and surprise the uninitiated, as well as the frequent user. It includes first-hand reports of the nature of the experience; recent scientific theories; the use of psychedelics in primitive and non-western cultures; and the sociology of drugs in our own society. There are also sections on the potential creative uses of psychedelics, from the enhancement of religious experience to the treatment of alcoholics and the design of mental hospitals. The contributors include noted scientists, psychologists, sociologists , and religious leaders. All of the help to throw some light on a subject which, in spite of the interest it generates, has produced a great deal of mis-information. Government restrictions have in fact brought the progress of much-needed research almost ot a hald. Psychedelics is a plea for--and an invitation to--enlightenment.