transhistoria + sinestesia
estudios en poetica del tiempo y artes cognitivas
Las puertas virtuales de la percepción
 

actos en onda y saberes en línea

Recursos web para el estudio de las artes y ciencias enteogénicas. Portal a bibliotecas virtuales enfocadas en temas de historia, cultura y antropología asociados al uso espiritual de las plantas sagradas y los estados alterados de conciencia. Rizomas virtuales que iluminan el renacimiento de una contracultura sicodelica en medio de una postmodernidad intoxicada por guerras antidrogas y la embriaguez del espectaculo.

The Psychedelic Library

Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Drugs, Psychedelic Research of the 1950's and 1960's, Psychedelics and Culture, Psychedelics and Social Policy, Psychedelics and the Religious Experience, Psychedelic Experience and Personal Growth, History of the Psychedelic Rediscovery
Psychedelic Renaissance, Peyote Wisdom, Books on Psychedelics and Drug Issues — HTML Editions

the Lycaeum - Entheogenic Database & Community

The Lycaeum Entheogen Database (Leda) was created to organize the complex and ever-expanding web of entheogen information. Leda picks up where our old drug archives left off. Our intent is to absorb all available entheogenic knowledge, cross-reference it for you, and make it browseable through an intuitive interface.

The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins. Raoul Vaneigem

bemushröömed

What the initiate experienced was "new, astonishing, inaccessible to rational cognition. (...) At last you know what the ineffable is and what ecstasy means. (...) The mind harks back to the origin of that word. For the Greeks ekstasis meant the flight of the soul from the body. I can find no better word to describe the bemushroomed state. (...) In common parlance, among the many who have not experienced ecstasy, ecstasy is fun, and I am frequently asked why I do not reach for mushrooms every night. (...) But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles. (...) After all, who will chose to feel undiluted awe, or to float through that door yonder into the divine presence? (...) The unknowing abuse the word, but we must recapture its full and terrifying sense.

Island Web: Aldous Huxley's Psychedelic Community

The Island Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation with headquarters in Santa Cruz, California composed of individuals dedicated to the creation of a psychedelic culture. The group is named for English novelist Aldous Huxley's last novel, Island about a utopian culture called Pala. (...) Our focus begins with the psychedelic experience, but then goes on to explore how, once we have had these experiences, we can create, and begin to live in a culture that has this vision woven into it's very fabric.

Hyperreal

Hyperreal is a resource and a home on the Internet for information and activies surrounding the memes of music, dance, art, altered states of consciousness, and experimental ways of expressing those memes over the wires. Information like this doesn't want to be free, it NEEDS to be free, and it needs a place to be expressed independent of any overriding responsibility to a larger institution.

Stop the Drug War

StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network, organization advocating legalization and an end to the "drug war"

DRCNet Online Library Main Page - No Frames

"Online library of articles, reasearch papers, books, and essays on drugs, drug policy, prohibition, controlled substances, drug abuse, the drug war, marijuana, medical marijuna, LSD, peyote, psilocybin, ibogaine, psychedelic drugs."


Cliff Schaffer's Mark Twain Collection

 

Books on Psychedelics >HTML Editions - Index<

THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley

Huxley's classic from 1954, which sparked the rediscovery of psychedelics by a wide and varied audience. "There is nothing the pen of Huxley touches which it does not illuminate, and as the record of a highly civilised, brilliantly articulate man under the influence of an astonishing drug, The Doors of Perception is a tour de force." — The Daily Telegraph, London. ©Mrs. Laura Huxley. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/doors.htm

THE JOYOUS COSMOLOGY by Alan W. Watts

One of the world's leading investigators of the psychology of religion evaluates the psychedelic experience both objectively and from the vantage of the author's own personal experiments. Foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. HTML edition, table of contents and complete text, ©1962, 1970 by Pantheon Books.

LSD, MY PROBLEM CHILD by Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD and discoverer of psilocybin, the active principle of the "magic mushroom," recounts the history of his discoveries. HTML edition, table of contents and complete text, ©1980 McGraw-Hill Book Company. Translated by Jonathan Ott from the German, LSD—Mein Sorgenkind, 1979

THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS by Wasson, Hofmann, & Ruck

Acting on an insight into the true nature of the Mysteries of Eleusis, R. Gordon Wasson sought the collaboration of Albert Hofmann and Carl A.P. Ruck, a classical scholar specializing in Greek ethnobotany. Closely coordinating their research, the three scholar-scientists first offered documentation on the religious rites at an International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms in 1977. These astonishing findings, given here in a much expanded version, leave little doubt that the ancient secret of Eleusis has at last been unveiled. The HTML edition includes Table of Contents, Introduction and Chapter I. © 1978 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

THE SECRET CHIEF by Myron J. Stolaroff

"Conversations with a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement" by Myron J. Stolaroff. The PROLOGUE to The Secret Chief by Stanislav Grof, M.D., is reproduced in The Psychedelic Library by permission of the publisher, The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. ©1997 by Myron J. Stolaroff.

THE NATURAL MIND by Andrew Weil

"The Natural Mind is one of the classics of consciousness investigation. Dr. Weil's emphasis that it is consciousness and intention that are primary in determining our response to drugs, rather than drug chemistry, is an insight we need today to determine a rational approach to drug use and abuse." —Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. Preface to the revised edition and Chapter 1 reproduced in The Psychedelic Library by permission of the author. ©1972, 1986 by Andrew Weil.

Psychedelics and the Religious Experience

Psychedelics and the Religious Experience

by: Alan Watts

The New Alchemy

by: Alan Watts. Written in 1960, this essay relates the author's first experiments with LSD, and remains today a very penetrating and complete philosophical analysis of the psychedelic experience.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

History of the Psychedelic Rediscovery

Secret of "Divine Mushrooms"

Life Magazine, May 13, 1957. Great Adventures III: The Discovery of Mushrooms That Cause Strange Visions. Vision-giving mushrooms are discovered in a remote Mexican village by a U.S. banker who describes the strange ritual and effects of eating them, by R. Gordon Wasson.

The Soul-Searchers

by Alan Watts, an excerpt from In My Own Way, An Autobiography, 1915 — 1965.
©1972 by Alan Watts. Published by Pantheon Books, Random House, Inc.

The Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico

"An Inquiry Into The Origins of The Religious Idea Among Primitive Peoples," by R. Gordon Wasson. From the Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, 1961, 19(7).

The Psychedelic Library

Introductory Papers

The Exploration of Experience

by: Humphrey Osmond, an excerpt from his 1957 paper
"A Review of the Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents"

Psychedelics, Technology, Psychedelics

by: Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond, the introductory chapter to
PSYCHEDELICS, the Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs

Psychedelics and the Future

by Humphry Osmond and Bernard S. Aaronson

LSD: Completely Personal [by Dr. Albert Hofmann]
translated from the original German (LSD Ganz Persönlich) by J. Ott. <speech delivered to the 1996 Worlds of Consciousness Conference in Heidelberg, Germany>


Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years

Ernest L. Abel, 1980

Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Drugs

LSD — The Problem-Solving Psychedelic

 

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

Recent Articles in the Media

The Principia Discordia

Index of MAPS Photo Archive - Dr. Albert Hofmann

The Albert Hofmann Foundation

Throughout history people have used mind-expanding substances to explore consciousness and enhance their lives. Our purpose at the Albert Hofmann Foundation is to gather the records of these endeavors and to further the understanding and responsible application of psychedelic substances in the investigation of both individual and collective consciousness.

Dr. Albert Hofmann, on the occasion of celebrating the 50th anniversary of his famous bicycle ride:
"You, my dear friends, and millions all over the world who now commemorate the 50th birthday of ergot's child, we all testify gratefully that we got valuable help on the way to what Aldous Huxley said is the end and the ultimate purpose of human life--enlightenment, beatific vision, love. I think all these joyful testimonies of invaluable help by LSD should be enough to convince the health authorities, finally, of the nonsense of the prohibition of LSD and of similar psychedelics."

 

in-dios we trust

Also Francis Bacon, the father of modern scientific method, in Novum Organum, wrote, "The entrance into the Kingdom of man, founded on the sciences, being not much other than the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, whereinto none may enter except as a little child."

 

 

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