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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a road trip through Chile, boorish American expatriate Jamie and three Chilean brothers plan to set off in search of the prized San Pedro cactus and its promise of unrivaled hallucinations. But during a night's drunken stupor Jamie invites free-spirited fellow American Crystal Fairy along on their psychedelic-driven journey, and before long Crystal's devil-may-care attitude gives them more of an adventure than any of them had bargained for....
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2018, ©2016
Physical Desc
xxviii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort, however, quickly turned into a discredited enterprise involving recreational drug use. But what if a study of psychedelics was undertaken with trusted scientific rigor? William A. Richards does just that in Sacred Knowledge, the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and...
4) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hallucinogenic drugs, popularly called psychedelics, have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering substances, both natural and synthetic, and discovering that they can have profoundly positive clinical impacts, helping patients struggling with a range of afflictions from addiction to depression and PTSD.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 381 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. Yes, the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present...
8) Visionary: the mysterious origins of human consciousness : the definitive edition of supernatural
Author
Publisher
New Page Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 613 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Description
The author investigates ancient shamanic traditions in order to understand what gave birth to civilization and the modern human mind.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13hrs. 30min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Pollan elegantly brings together in a single narrative this unruly history, the story of the current resurgence in psychedelic research, and his own fantastic personal adventure with these substances. This is a brand new story about these incredible drugs, which today are demonstrating a remarkable usefulness in treating mental conditions such as PTSD, depression, and end-of-life anxiety.
10) Joe
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy businessman and a factory worker form an unlikely friendship based on their hatred of the post-World War II counter-culture.
11) The red arrow
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
ix, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace-including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos,...
Publisher
MVD Visual DVD Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary film set in 1960s American drug counter-culture detailing the lives and times of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the chemists who created and manufactured the type of LSD known as "Orange Sunshine".
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly every medication possible; her husband...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples. Mescaline was isolated in 1897 from the peyote cactus, first encountered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. During the twentieth...
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