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English
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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...
2) Cleansing the doors of perception: the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xvii, 173 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
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English
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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...
Author
Series
the teachings of Don Juan volume 2
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the brink of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to Don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
6) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
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Series
A separate reality volume 4
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1992], c1974
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Don Juan concludes Castaneda's lessons in the sorcerer's art with a dazzling series of visions.
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a new street drug takes users across time and dimensions and some of them are no longer human when they return, it's up to two college dropouts to stop the invasion and save humanity.
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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308 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous—or infamous—and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his psychedelic experiments at Harvard to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia’s elite. “America’s most conspicuous beatnik” was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic revolution and turned on the...
Author
Series
the teachings of Don Juan volume 1
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xxii, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of fascinating dialogues, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico. He describes don Juan's perception and mastery of the "non- ordinary reality" and how peyote along with other plants sacred to the Mexican Indians were used as gateways to the mysteries of "dread," "clarity," and "power."
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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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
Series
the teachings of Don Juan volume 6
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
1991, c1981
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
His legend and his power have grown through two generations, in five astonishing volumes, including The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality. Now, in this haunting and deeply personal book, Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason.
Author
Series
the teachings of Don Juan volume 3
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the lessons of Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan Matus on how to "stop the world," his term for achieving certain states of awareness in which the reality of everyday life is altered.
Author
Series
the teachings of Don Juan volume 8
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The legendary Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan returns, and through his mesmerizing stories readers learn the vital secrets of belief and self-realization that are transcendental and valid for us all--that wisdom, strength and power lie within ourselves.
Author
Series
A separate reality volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the center of the book is a new and formidable figure, dona Soledad, a woman whose powers are turned against Castaneda in a struggle that almost consumes him. Dona Soledad has been taught by don Juan, transformed by his teachings from a bent and gray-haired old woman into a sensual, lithe, deeply sexual figure of awesome and mysterious power, a sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda by a series of terrifying tricks. Castaneda's combat with...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 73
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
2012: time for change presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom.The follows journalist Daniel Pinchback on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method.
Imagine it!: Designed to provide a forum for discussion around the power of big ideas in action and to inspire people to imagine a better world by connecting imagination and creativity with science and engineering...
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Language
English
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Description
This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. The four men came together in a time of upheaval and experimentation, and their exploration of an...
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Series
Burning Cove California volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and 1960s.
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