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Changing Our Minds is an experiential tour through a social, spiritual and scientific revolution that is redefining our culture's often-confusing relationship with psychoactive substances. Veteran journalist Don Lattin chronicles the inspiring stories of pioneering neuroscientists, psychotherapists, spiritual guides and ordinary people seeking to live healthier lives by combining psychedelic drugs, psychotherapy, and the wise use of ancient plant medicines. In ground-breaking clinical trials, specially trained therapists employ Ecstasy (MDMA) to help U.S. veterans struggling with the…mehr
Changing Our Minds is an experiential tour through a social, spiritual and scientific revolution that is redefining our culture's often-confusing relationship with psychoactive substances.
Veteran journalist Don Lattin chronicles the inspiring stories of pioneering neuroscientists, psychotherapists, spiritual guides and ordinary people seeking to live healthier lives by combining psychedelic drugs, psychotherapy, and the wise use of ancient plant medicines. In ground-breaking clinical trials, specially trained therapists employ Ecstasy (MDMA) to help U.S. veterans struggling with the psychological aftermath of war.
Other psychiatrists in government-approved research offer psilocybin to alcoholics trying to get sober and cancer patients struggling with the existential distress of a life-threatening illness.
Meanwhile, new imaging technology has enabled neuroscientists to map the psychedelic brain in real time, deepening our understanding of human consciousness. the essential primer for understanding and navigating this new consciousness-raising territory.
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Don Lattin is an award-winning author and journalist. His five previously published books include The Harvard Psychedelic Club, a national bestseller that was awarded the California Book Award, Silver Medal, for nonfiction. His feature articles have been published in dozens of leading magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin worked as a staff writer for twenty years.
Inhaltsangabe
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE — WOUNDED WARRIOR How two therapists used MDMA to help an emotionally destroyed veteran of the war in Iraq. Features Nigel McCourry and Michael and Annie Mithoefer.
CHAPTER TWO — CHEMISTRY Examines the rise and fall of above-ground psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Features Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Leo Zeff and George Greer.
CHAPTER THREE — SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM Can the use of drugs like MDMA and psilocybin free people from addiction to other drugs like alcohol and nicotine and heroin. Features researchers Michael Bogenschutz and Matthew Johnson, and two of their research subjects: recovering alcoholic Carroll Carlson and former nicotine addict Gordon McGlothlin.
CHAPTER FOUR — PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY How psychedelic drug research is helping us understand the nature of religious experience, and how other consciousness explorers have begun experimenting with microdosing. Features researchers Bob Jesse, Bill Richards, Roland Griffiths and Rick Strassman, along with research subjects Stephen Warres, Lila Diaboha and the Rev. Mike Young.
CHAPTER FIVE — SCIENCE OF MIND How does the rapidly developing field of cognitive neuroscience explain the mysteries of psychedelic spirituality? Features Swiss researchers Franz Vollenweider and Katrin Preller, Amanda Feilding of the British based Beckley Foundation, and Dieter Hagenbach, the biographer of Albert Hofmann.
CHAPTER SIX — DYING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS One of the nation’s leading clinical trials uses psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat the anxiety and depression that can accompany the diagnosis of a life-threatening ill- ness. Features therapists Mary Cosimano, Anthony Bossis and Stephen Ross, along with donor/therapist T. Cody Swift and cancer patients Judith Goedeke and Richard Cone.
CHAPTER SEVEN — PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hopes to begin the new era by cornering the market on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Dave Nichols, the veteran psychedelic chemist and president of the Heffter Research Institute, has more modest goals for the psilocybin research his organization is sponsoring. Also, features donor/filmmaker Robert Barnhart.
CHAPTER EIGHT — MDMA ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Andy Gold, an attorney with cancer, and John Saul, a yacht broker with an equally terrifying disease, sat together on “the tripping couch” of the cozy psychedelic psychotherapy center, talking about life, death, and Ecstasy. An in-depth look at one study conducted by researchers Phil Wolfson and Julane Andries, and two other volunteer subjects, Nikki Dohn and Wendy Donner.
CHAPTER NINE — FALSE STARTS AND DASHED HOPES Features a critique of the medical model and the current research strategy through pro- files of psychedelic veterans Ralph Metzner and Richard Yensen, who admit they and their brethren made their own share of mistakes along the way.
CHAPTER TEN — MINDSETS AND MINEFIELDS Charles Grob and Alicia Danforth at UCLA talk about their work with MDMA and young adults with autism—and their fears about the wrong people getting into this emerging field.
CHAPTER ELEVEN — VINE OF THE SOUL First of two ayahuasca chapters begins with the story of Kyle Nolan, a teenager who died during a vision quest offered by an unscrupulous shaman. Features Dennis McKenna and Kathleen Harrison, along with researcher Jessica Nielson and a U.S. Marine vet who went to Peru to heal his Gulf War trauma.
CHAPTER TWELVE — INTO THE JUNGLE An account of the author’s ayahuasca adventures in Brazil and the wilds of Northern California. Includes a profile of Hawaiian couple who have taken ayahuasca in a myriad of ways.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN — IBOGAINE AT THE CROSSROADS A psychedelic center in Mexico illustrates how U.S. drug policies force some North Americans to seek addiction therapy and spiritual healing south of the border. Features clinic founder Martin Polanco, nurse Paige Guion and two heroin addicts, Collin and Carson.
CONCLUSION — BACK TO THE FUTURE Looking into the past and future with Stanislav Grof, James Fadiman, and the mysterious Captain Al Hubbard.
EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
CHAPTER ONE — WOUNDED WARRIOR How two therapists used MDMA to help an emotionally destroyed veteran of the war in Iraq. Features Nigel McCourry and Michael and Annie Mithoefer.
CHAPTER TWO — CHEMISTRY Examines the rise and fall of above-ground psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Features Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Leo Zeff and George Greer.
CHAPTER THREE — SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM Can the use of drugs like MDMA and psilocybin free people from addiction to other drugs like alcohol and nicotine and heroin. Features researchers Michael Bogenschutz and Matthew Johnson, and two of their research subjects: recovering alcoholic Carroll Carlson and former nicotine addict Gordon McGlothlin.
CHAPTER FOUR — PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY How psychedelic drug research is helping us understand the nature of religious experience, and how other consciousness explorers have begun experimenting with microdosing. Features researchers Bob Jesse, Bill Richards, Roland Griffiths and Rick Strassman, along with research subjects Stephen Warres, Lila Diaboha and the Rev. Mike Young.
CHAPTER FIVE — SCIENCE OF MIND How does the rapidly developing field of cognitive neuroscience explain the mysteries of psychedelic spirituality? Features Swiss researchers Franz Vollenweider and Katrin Preller, Amanda Feilding of the British based Beckley Foundation, and Dieter Hagenbach, the biographer of Albert Hofmann.
CHAPTER SIX — DYING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS One of the nation’s leading clinical trials uses psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat the anxiety and depression that can accompany the diagnosis of a life-threatening ill- ness. Features therapists Mary Cosimano, Anthony Bossis and Stephen Ross, along with donor/therapist T. Cody Swift and cancer patients Judith Goedeke and Richard Cone.
CHAPTER SEVEN — PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hopes to begin the new era by cornering the market on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Dave Nichols, the veteran psychedelic chemist and president of the Heffter Research Institute, has more modest goals for the psilocybin research his organization is sponsoring. Also, features donor/filmmaker Robert Barnhart.
CHAPTER EIGHT — MDMA ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Andy Gold, an attorney with cancer, and John Saul, a yacht broker with an equally terrifying disease, sat together on “the tripping couch” of the cozy psychedelic psychotherapy center, talking about life, death, and Ecstasy. An in-depth look at one study conducted by researchers Phil Wolfson and Julane Andries, and two other volunteer subjects, Nikki Dohn and Wendy Donner.
CHAPTER NINE — FALSE STARTS AND DASHED HOPES Features a critique of the medical model and the current research strategy through pro- files of psychedelic veterans Ralph Metzner and Richard Yensen, who admit they and their brethren made their own share of mistakes along the way.
CHAPTER TEN — MINDSETS AND MINEFIELDS Charles Grob and Alicia Danforth at UCLA talk about their work with MDMA and young adults with autism—and their fears about the wrong people getting into this emerging field.
CHAPTER ELEVEN — VINE OF THE SOUL First of two ayahuasca chapters begins with the story of Kyle Nolan, a teenager who died during a vision quest offered by an unscrupulous shaman. Features Dennis McKenna and Kathleen Harrison, along with researcher Jessica Nielson and a U.S. Marine vet who went to Peru to heal his Gulf War trauma.
CHAPTER TWELVE — INTO THE JUNGLE An account of the author’s ayahuasca adventures in Brazil and the wilds of Northern California. Includes a profile of Hawaiian couple who have taken ayahuasca in a myriad of ways.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN — IBOGAINE AT THE CROSSROADS A psychedelic center in Mexico illustrates how U.S. drug policies force some North Americans to seek addiction therapy and spiritual healing south of the border. Features clinic founder Martin Polanco, nurse Paige Guion and two heroin addicts, Collin and Carson.
CONCLUSION — BACK TO THE FUTURE Looking into the past and future with Stanislav Grof, James Fadiman, and the mysterious Captain Al Hubbard.
EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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