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

Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a best of collection of articles and essays published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Topics include the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics--including MDMA, ibogaine, LSD, and ayahuasca--for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and drug addiction, as well as positive effects of these substances in the realm of the arts, family, spirituality, ecology, and technology.

Among many other thought-provoking and mind-opening pieces are the following:
On Leary and Drugs at the End, by Carol Rosen and Vicki Marshall
Psychedelic Rites of Passage, by Ram Dass
To Be Read at the Funeral, by Albert Hofmann
Another Green World: Psychedelics and Ecology, by Daniel Pinchbeck
Psychedelics and Species Connectedness, by Stanley Krippner, PhD
Huxley on Drugs and Creativity, by Aldous Huxley
Psychedelics and the Deep Ecology Movement: A Conversation with Arne Naess, by Mark A. Schroll, PhD, and David Rothenberg
Psychedelic Sensibility, by Tom Robbins
Electronic Music and Psychedelics: An Interview with Simon Posford of Shpongle, by David Jay Brown
How Psychedelics Informed My Sex Life and Sex Work, by Annie Sprinkle
Consideration of Ayahuasca for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, by Jessica Nielson, PhD, and Julie Megler, MSN, NP-BC
Psychedelics and Extreme Sports, by James Oroc
Youth and Entheogens: A Modern Rite of Passage?, by Andrei Foldes with Amba, Eric Johnson, et al.
Diary of an MDMA Subject, by Anonymous
Dimethyltryptamine: Possible Endogenous Ligand of the Sigma-1 Receptor?, by Adam L. Halberstadt
Lessons from Psychedelic Therapy, by Richard Yensen, PhD
Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology, and Psychedelics, by Ana Maqueda
Talking with Ann and Sasha Shulgin about the Existence of God and the Pleasures of Sex and Drugs, by Jon Hanna and Silvia Thyssen