Series Editor's Foreword by J. Harold Ellens Introduction by J. Harold Ellens and Thomas B. Roberts Section I: Psychedelics, Medicine, Religion, and Truth Chapter 1 You Have a Constitutional Right to Psychedelics: Academic Freedom, Personal Conscience, and Psychotechnologies Thomas B. Roberts Chapter 2 A Brief History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices: Psychedelic Medical History "before the Hiatus" Ben Sessa Chapter 3 Continuing History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices: The Renaissance of Psychedelic Medical Research Ben Sessa Chapter 4 Psychedelic Medicines Michael J. Winkelman Chapter 5 Psychedelic Psychotherapy Near the End of Life Charles S. Grob and Alicia Danforth Chapter 6 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? A 35-Year Retrospect Huston Smith Chapter 7 Understanding the Religious Import of Mystical States of Consciousness Facilitated by Psilocybin William A. Richards Chapter 8 Pilgrimage to the Light? On the Threshold of a Dream: Sacred Plants, Passionate Dedication to Ideals, and Healing Richard Yensen Chapter 9 Ayahuasca and the Vines of Politics Danny Nemu Chapter 10 Psychedelics as a Practice of Truth: A Foucauldian Argument Pieter Stokkink Chapter 11 The Transpersonal, Psychedelics, and Mainstream Psychology: Why the Wide Divide? James R. Fadiman Section II: Psychedelics, Psychology, Rights, and Policy Chapter 12 Psychoactive Stimulation and Psychoactive Substances: Conceptual and Ethical Considerations David Bryce Yaden, Derek Egan Anderson, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, and Andrew B. Newberg Chapter 13 Mindapps and the Neurosingularity Project Thomas B. Roberts Chapter 14 Entheogenic Experience as a Human Right Martin W. Ball Chapter 15 Psychedelics and Criminality: A Possible Pathway to Reduced Recidivism? Peter S. Hendricks Chapter 16 Plant Psychedelics in the English Courts: Legal Uncertainty, Guinea Pigs, and "Dog Law" Charlotte Walsh Chapter 17 Therapeutic Hallucinogens: Altered State Laws for Altered States Mitch Earleywine and Mallory Loflin Chapter 18 Changing Psychedelics Policy Neal M. Goldsmith Chapter 19 The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science Drug Policy Alliance and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Chapter 20 Regulation of the Prescription Use of Psychedelics Rick Doblin Conclusion Dear God, No More Committees! Thomas B. Roberts and J. Harold Ellens About the Editors About the Contributors Index

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