Otherworlds

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and Lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology for Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University.He was President of the Para-psychological Association, founded the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon in London and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspectives of science and shamanism.

• AcknowledgementsForeword – Dr Dean RadinPrefaceSECTION 1: Explorations of Exceptional Entheogen ExperiencesChapter 1: Notes on Getting Cactus Lodged in Your Reducing Valve: San Pedro and Psychic AbilitiesChapter 2. Psychedelic Possession: The Growing Incorporation of Incorporation into Ayahuasca UseChapter 3. The Induction of Synaesthesia with Chemical Agents: A Systematic Review (with Devin Terhune)Chapter 4. Rock Art or Rorschach: Is There More to Entoptics Than Meets the Eye?Chapter 5. Discarnate Entities and Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, Phenomenology and OntologyChapter 6. Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity EncountersChapter 7. Psychedelics and Species ConnectednessSECTION 2: Do Psychedelics Like Psilocybin Really Cause Psi?Chapter 8. Psychoactive Substances and Paranormal Phenomena ReviewChapter 9. Psychedelic/Neurochemical Models of Paranormal ExperienceChapter 10. Field Reports of Psychedelic Paranormal PhenomenaChapter 11. Surveys of Psychedelic Paranormal Beliefs and ExperiencesChapter 12. Experimental Psychedelic ESP ResearchChapter 13. Methodological Critique of Experimental ESP ResearchChapter 14. General Summary and Conclusions on Psychedelic Parapsychological ResearchAfterword: Pulling Magicians out of a Rabbit HoleReferencesIndex