 ....books :
Hyla
Cass, M.D.
and Patrick Holford. Natural
Highs
There
are potent natural substances -- herbs, amino acids, nutritional
supplements and foods -- that can significantly elevate mood, tame
stress, and repair memory in ways that work in harmony with your body's
own chemistry. This book presents everything from simple solutions to
more comprehensive programs (such as those to overcome addictions)
combining supplements and mind-body techniques... quotes from hylacass.com
Mitchell
Earleywine. Understanding Marijuana: A New Look
at the Scientific Evidence
Mitch
Earlywine is a professor of psychology at the University of Southern
California, where he teaches "the Drug Class." In Understanding
Marijuana he attempts "a presentation of a vast literature for those
who prefer to think for themselves rather than be told what to think."
That's a refreshing strategy in an emotional and political arena that
has often bred less-than-objective reviews and outright propaganda.
Throughout this well-documented book, Earlywine summarizes scientific
information, historical experiences and controversies in a concise,
conversational style. > from review
by Steve Heilig, MPH
David
R. Ford,
Tod H. Mikuriya. Marijuana:
Not Guilty As Charged
Michael
Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer. Sisters
of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience,
Including Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May
Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou,
Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Carrie Fisher, and Others
[from
Booklist review:] "The literature of drug-taking usually seems entirely
masculine, from De Quincey and Coleridge down to Kerouac and Leary.
This substantial anthology demonstrates that women have written about
the ecstactic and the dangerous aspects of drug-taking, too... // Grace
Slick, Lead Singer of Jefferson
Airplane: "A fascinating book. I didn't realize I had so many sisters
of the extreme."
Michael Horowitz, Cynthia
Palmer, eds. Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings
on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
James
Hughes. Altered
States: Creativity Under the Influence
The
book considers how the components of creativity--awareness, energy,
loss of self-consciousness--are affected by stimuli to the brain such
as meditative rituals, alcohol, and drugs. The impact of altered states
on Samuel Coleridge, William Faulkner, Jackson Pollock, and other
creative giants is explored, as is the role drugs play in group
creativity--jazz, blues music, experimental theater, film. Also
discussed are pop icons such as Little Richard, Bob Dylan, John Lennon,
Jimi Hendrix, and Jerry Garcia and the visionary, surreal quality often
associated with their music, describing ecstatic experience or demonic
worlds. [Amazon.com review]
Christopher
Kilham. Psyche
Delicacies: Coffee, Chocolate, Chiles, Kava, and Cannabis,
and Why They're Good for You
John
Markoff. What the Dormouse Said: How the
60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer
Markoff
shows how almost every feature of today's home computers, from the
graphical interface to the mouse control, can be traced to two Stanford
research facilities that were completely immersed in the
counterculture... [including] figures like Doug Engelbart (a research
director who was driven by the drug-fueled vision that digital
computers could augment human memory and performance... [Publishers
Weekly]
Robert
Masters, PhD and Jean Houston, PhD. The Varieties Of Psychedelic Experience...
Ralph
Metzner, PhD et al. Ayahuasca:
Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
Ayahuasca is a
tea made from two plants found, until recently, only in the Amazon
basin. Indigenous people of the region have used it for medicinal and
shamanic purposes since time immemorial. In the last century, it has
been ceremonially incorporated by polyglot Christian/goddess religions
springing up in Brazil and by seekers on the margins of consciousness
exploration. In this book, Metzner, a hallucinogenic and mystical
experience researcher for over 35 years, has compiled essays and
journal-type writings from a wide assortment of people who have
experienced its divinity-evoking effects--28 scientists, psychologists,
chemists, curious laypeople, and practitioners of these religions.
Jacob
Sullum. Saying
Yes: In Defense of Drug Use
After
decades of a futile war on drugs, Saying Yes makes public what many
Americans discuss only in private: Drug use as it is described by
politicians and propagandists is dramatically different from drug use
as it is experienced by the silent majority of users--the decent people
who, despite their politically incorrect choice of intoxicants, lead
productive and fulfilling lives. In Saying Yes, Jacob Sullum argues
that illegal drug use should be viewed the same way as drinking, with
an emphasis on temperance rather than abstinence. Sullum rejects the
idea that there is something inherently wrong with using chemicals to
alter one's mood or mind. He uses compelling stories about real people
to illustrate the point that there is such a thing as responsible drug
use. [from Reason magazine site reason.com]
|
Ed
Harris on smoking pot and drinking
And
some Bob
Dylan references including wikipedia.org say his work was influenced by
using psychedelics and other drugs and alcohol, sometimes at
“dangerous levels.”
TM
: So you could see another world?
director
/ screenwriter Caroline Thompson 
For
most people it's an extremely significant experience, and I suppose in
an indirect way it could help the creative process. 
drugs
and alcohol ... a sort of
One's
normally compulsive concern for the future decreases, and one becomes
aware of the enormous importance and interest of what is happening at
the moment. 
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