Psychedelics and Spirituality

Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he taught the world’s first college-listed psychedelics course in 1981. A founding member of MAPS, former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, and author of The Psychedelic Future of the Mind and MindApps, he lives in Sycamore, Illinois.

• Editor’s Note--A Tale of Three Book Titles Thomas B. RobertsAcknowledgments Foreword to the 2012 Edition: The Varieties of Mind-Enhancing Practices Roger WalshIntroduction: Psychoactive SacramentalsBrother David Steindl-Rast1 If I Could Change Your Mind Rev. Mike Young 2 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? A Thirty-Five-Year Retrospect Huston Smith3 From State to Trait: The Challenge of Transforming Transient Insights into Enduring Change Roger Walsh 4 The Potential of Entheogens as Catalysts of Spiritual Development Stanislav Grof 5 Psychoactive Sacramentals: What Must Be Said Charles T. Tart 6 Unitive Consciousness and Pahnke’s Good Friday Experiment Paula Jo Hruby 7 Pahnke’s Good Friday Experiment: A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique Rick Doblin 8 A Pilgrim’s Visit to Marsh Chapel Thomas Jenden Riedlinger 9 Las noches de los ayahuasqueros Will Penna10 Mysterious Tea Annelise Schinzinger 11 A Scientist’s View of Miracles and Magic Alexander T. Shulgin12 LSD as a Spiritual Aid Albert Hofmann 13 Strychnine and Other Enduring Myths: Expert and User Folklore Surrounding LSD David E. Presti and Jerome Beck 14 Manna, the Showbread, and the Eucharist: Psychoactive Sacraments in the Bible Dan Merkur 15 What Is Entheology?Rev. Aline M. Lucas 16 A Protocol for a Sacramental Service Myron J. Stolaroff 17 A Theology of Human Liberation and Entheogens: Reflections of a Contemplative Activist Rev. George F. Cairns 18 Consciousness and Asian Traditions: An Evolutionary Perspective Roger Walsh19 The Strengthening Aspects of Zen and Contemporary Meditation Practices Kathleen O’Shaughnessy20 Transpersonal Counseling: Some Observations Regarding Entheogens Frances Vaughan 21 The New Psychotherapy: MDMA and the Shadow Ann Shulgin 22 The Birthing of Transcendental MedicineRev. Karla A. Hansen 23 The Judicial Architectonics of Psychoactive Sacramentals Richard Glen Boire 24 On Nomenclature for the Class of Mescaline-Like Substances: And Why It Matters Robert Jesse 25 An Entheogen Idea-Map--Future ExplorationsThomas B. Roberts Epilogue About the Council on Spiritual Practices Index

“A major contribution to ensuring the continued expansion of the renaissance in psychedelic research. This book would be an outstanding textbook in all courses of psychedelic psychotherapy, mysticism, and spirituality.”