A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions from Research in LSD

Preface
	A Beginning Note on Form
	Language, Behavior, and the Brain
	Consciousness, Mind, Awareness, and Experience
	Memory, Dreams, and Reality
	Methods and Definitions: Hallucinations, Visions, and Thought
	A Historical Framework of What Has Been Done
	Interpreting What We See and How
	The Original Thesis and Proposal and Now
	Perceiving and Meaning
	References
Prelude to the Study
	Some Background and Context
	Experiences: Personal, Laboratory, and Clinical
	Image Origins, Distortions, and Derivations
	References
A Note on Terms Used in the Ethnographic Literature
Refere˘nce
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	Some Contemporary Ideas About Getting High
	A Start to Learn the Ropes of Studying the Mind
	Diggers, Pranksters, Media, and Scientists
	Some Reflections on the Human Brain
	References
2: A Question of Dose and Context: LSD, Peyote and Chemical Interactions, Human Variation, and Interpretation
	Native Theory, Explanations, and Defining Miraculous
	Messages, Conversion, and Inner Voices
	Thalamocortical Functional Disconnections
	Grof’s Transpersonal Categories
	Types of Hallucinations, Visions, Archetypes, or Physical Features
	Background to Miracles, Demons, Boredom, and Patterns of Life
	Dose Again and Variations in Experience
	Some Interpretations, Expectations, and Origins
	The Revolution That Was and Is
	References
3: Pursuit of the Miraculous or Just Piling up Confusion
	Experiencing and “Seeing”: Art and Spirituality
	Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Perception
	References
4: A Thesis on LSD Research in the Laboratory and the Street: Sensory Deprivation, Surveys and the Mogar Laboratory, Creating Cures
	Some Examples from the Mogar Lab and the Caldararo Survey
	Becoming Human
	References
5: The Indigenous View and Categories of Normality
	Human Be-In, All Is One, Illusion, and Radical Futures
	Personality, Identity, Stability, Psychedelics, and Change
	References
6: A View of Possible Identities, Realities, and Futures
	The Future of Psychedelics and Consciousness
	References
7: The Female Exception (in Research) and Gendered Experiences
	Conducting Research in a Male World
	Women and the Investigation of Psychedelics
	References
8: Conclusion and Strange Threads
	An Unnerving and Curious Future
	References
Appendix A: Genetics and LSD by Niccolo Caldararo 1967
Appendix B: Survey Questionnaire from 1966–1967
References
Index