Rick Doblin - Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality

Praise forManifesting Minds

As psychedelics move from taboo subject to trendy topic, and as mainstream media outlets excitedly cover new psychedelic research, this collection of serious and highly readable articles is an especially wonderful gift. This is a must-have anthology for its amazing diversity and valuable content.

James Fadiman, PhD, researcher and author ofThe Psychedelic Explorers Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

A deep, exciting collection of brilliant minds sharing research, cosmologies, humor, and imagination centered on my favorite topics: psychedelics and consciousness. Fascinating reading!

Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, loyal member of the Merry Pranksters

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1960 interview with Aldous Huxley by The Paris Review. Copyright 1960 by The Paris Review, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Manifesting minds : a review of psychedelics in science, medicine, sex, and spirituality / edited by Rick Doblin, PhD, and Brad Burge.
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Summary: This anthology of essays and research on the physical, emotional, creative, and spiritual benefits of psychedelics and marijuana will appeal to educated readers with personal experience and interest in psychedelics, science, and empirical research, as well as professionals in the realms of alternative therapies, neuroscience, pharmacology, spirituality, and artProvided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-58394-726-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-58394-727-2
1. Hallucinogenic drugs. 2. Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. 3. Generative organsEffect of drugs on. 4. Altered states of consciousness I. Doblin, Rick. II.
Burge, Brad.
RM324.8.M36 2013
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In 1986, I founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit research and educational organization with a mission to develop medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful use of psychedelics, especially our top priority, MDMA (which was criminalized in 1985). In essence, MAPS is a nonprofit pharmaceutical company sponsoring research with psychedelics and marijuana, seeking to develop them into legally approved prescription treatments. Despite the potential of these substances, the pharmaceutical industry has abandoned them since their patents have expired. Major foundations and government agencies have not yet funded their development due to ongoing yet diminishing controversy over how our society should deal with them. As a result, MAPS has taken it as our responsibility to conduct careful scientific research and to educate the public honestly about the results of that research.

Based on our current work and the forecast for the future, I estimate were eight to ten years away from seeing the first example of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy become a prescription treatment. Though our primary focus is scientific research, public education has also been an essential part of our mission. Its therefore deeply satisfying for me, and I hope intriguing for readers of this book, to see the publication of this compilation of selected articles from special theme editions of the MAPS