Medical professionals, lawyers and religious leaders have recently been confronted with the problem of so-called “mystical drugs”, which, according to the information we have, do not cause obvious harm to the body, but cause changes in consciousness comparable to the most sublime aesthetic and religious experiences. In this book, one of the leading researchers in the field of psychology of religion gives an objective assessment of these drugs, and also talks about his personal experiments with them. The author’s descriptions of his experiences sound vivid, poetic and contain valuable information about the changes occurring in human consciousness. These changes span a wide range of experiences from glimpses of an aesthetic vision of nature to a philosophical vision of existence in the world as a comedy, at once infernal and divine. In doing so, the researcher arrives “not only at a cosmology of unity, but also at a cosmology of joy.” The foreword to the book was written by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, former members of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. The book is also strong because it contains photographs of natural objects that complement the fascinating narrative.

“...a touching introduction to one of the most modern areas of human exploration of itself.”

- Newsweek

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