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Paperback The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche Book

ISBN: 0892818972

ISBN13: 9780892818976

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche

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Book Overview

One of the most important books written on the effects of LSD on the human psyche. - Its authoritative research has great relevance to the current debate on drug legalization. - Prolific authors Robert Masters and Jean Houston are pioneer figures in the field of transpersonal psychology and founders of the Human Potentials Movement. The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience was published in 1966, just as the first legal restrictions on the use of psychedelic substances were being enacted. Unfortunately, the authors' pioneering work on the effects of LSD on the human psyche, which was viewed by its participants as possibly heralding a revolution in the study of the mind, was among the casualties of this interdiction. As a result, the promising results to which their studies attested were never fully explored. Nevertheless, their 15 years of research represents a sober and authoritative appraisal of what remains one of the most controversial developments in the study of the human psyche. Avoiding the wild excesses taken by both sides on this issue, this book is unique for the light it sheds on the possibilities and the limitations of psychedelic drugs, as well as on the techniques for working with them. With drug legalization an increasingly important issue, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience provides a welcome and much needed contrast to the current hysteria that surrounds this topic.
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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Read this book!

this book is an excellent primer to understanding the many incarnations of psychedelic experience. the information is put forward in a very professional way. benefits of LSD and other drugs in therapy are thoroughly weighed against potential detriment. This is a serious book, that confronts the question of where the real value lies in the psychedelic experience, and whether it exceeds the risks. the concept of levels of...

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Rated 5 stars
well written approach to psychedelic therapy

Very well written. Masters and Houston provide a description of what I would call their skeptically optimistic approach to psychedelic therapy. They advance a theory on possible levels of the psychedelic expererience. Also, there is *a lot* of helpful advice to 'trip sitters'. If you are going to trip sit I reccommend reading this and looking at erowid.org.

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Rated 5 stars
Best Ever Work About The Psychedelic Experience

Brand new re-issue of the classic 1966 work.If "The Doors Of Perception" was the most important work on psychedelics because of its influence, this then is by far the greatest because of its impeccable research, its far-ranging implications and its clear, lucid and compelling putting together of the evidence for the remarkable therapeutic and consciousness-illuminating value of LSD and other psychedelics (principally peyote)...

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The best book on psychedelics of ALL.

If "The Doors Of Perception" was the most important work on psychedelics because of its influence, this then is by far the greatest because of its impeccable research, its far-ranging implications and its clear, lucid and compelling putting together of the evidence for the remarkable therapeutic and consciousness-illuminating value of LSD and other psychedelics (principally peyote). They don't, however, proselitize, and...

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A look at The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

This book was very informative towards the use's of psychedelic drugs such as lsd. It provide's you with the truth and with actual accounts of people on these drugs. It really is the first comprehensive guide to the effects of LSD on human personailty.

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