| Description |
1 online resource (643 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Foreword by Stanislav Grof -- 1 Industry and Idyll in the Provinces -- The Beginnings of the Modern Era -- From Health Resort to Industrial Town -- Founding a Family -- The Mystical Wonders of Nature -- 2 With a Clear Goal -- Illness and Social Poverty -- A Model Student -- Brighter Horizons -- From Clerk to Chemist -- 3 Call of the Plants -- The Chemistry is Right in Basel -- In the Footsteps of Paracelsus -- Squill and Foxglove -- 4 Marriage and Family Bliss -- Turning Point -- Beginning of an Eternal Love |
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War and Peace -- 5 LSD Finds Its Discoverer -- In the Beginning was the Ergot -- The Synthesis -- Potency -- The First Trip -- The Assistant -- 6 The Dose Makes the Poison -- Successful Drugs -- From Phantasticum to Entheogen -- The Effect of LSD -- Classification of Psychoactive Substances According to Their Effect -- Drugs -- 7 Researchers Discover LSD -- Mescaline -- Experiments on Animals -- The First Experiment on Humans -- The Psychotomimetic Paradigm -- A Helpful Tool for Psychotherapy -- Realms of Consciousness -- Trauma Therapy -- LSD Comes to England -- Studies in Saskatchewan |
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Behind the Iron Curtain -- LSD Conquers America -- 8 The Search for a Truth Serum -- Dividing the World -- Experiments without Limits -- Understatement -- Iron Silence -- Serious Sweden -- In the Name of the Fatherland -- The Mystery of the Cursed Bread -- 9 Flesh of the Gods -- The Mushrooms Reach Basel -- The Kingdom of Sacred Plants and Mushrooms -- Teonanácatl -- Exploration -- Banker and Mycologist -- The Active Substance -- Psilocybin and Psilocin -- The Magic Vine -- Distrust -- The Magic Circle -- 10 The Mexico Expedition -- In the Land of the Mazatecs -- Ceremony with a Magical Plant |
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The Spirit in the Pill -- The Consequences -- 11 Friendships and Encounters -- Family Life -- Circles -- Interweavings -- Hermit in the Crystalline World -- Radiance and Convergence -- Almost a Friendship -- The Networker -- The Coronation -- 12 Metamorphoses at Harvard -- Vision of a New Psychology -- Psychedelic Revelation -- Academic Mushroom Circles -- Liberation Behind Bars -- The Man with the Mayonnaise Jar -- The End of Peace, Joy and Magic Mushrooms -- Millbrook -- Bureaucratic Hurdles -- The Woman from Washington -- Founding Years -- Multimedia Spectacle -- Changes of All Kinds |
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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out -- 13 Fuel of the Sixties -- A Molecule Changed the World -- The Bohemians of Manhattan -- From the Laboratory into the Cuckoo's Nest -- Can You Pass the Acid Test? -- The Hog Farm -- Chemistry in the Underground -- The Trips Festival -- Dionysian Festivals -- Hippies? Hippies! -- A Peaceful Cultural Revolution -- Chemists for a Better World -- Flowers in Their Hair, Love in Their Hearts, LSD in Their Heads -- The Diggers -- Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll -- Sounds of the Sixties -- Acid House, Psytrance, Goa Trance -- The Desert Lives -- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Woodstock |
| Subject |
Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008
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| SUBJECT |
Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008. fast (OCoLC)fst01716990 |
| Subject |
Chemists -- Biography
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LSD (Drug) -- History
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Chemists.
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LSD (Drug)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Werthmüller, Lucius
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Grof, Stanislav
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| ISBN |
9780907791454 |
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090779145X |
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