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050 4 _aBF209.L9 .H344 2013
082 0 _a615.7883092
100 1 _aHagenbach, Dieter.
245 1 0 _aMystic Chemist :
_bThe Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aLa Vergne :
_bSynergetic Press,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2013.
300 _a1 online resource (643 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Foreword by Stanislav Grof -- 1 Industry and Idyll in the Provinces -- The Beginnings of the Modern Era -- From Health Resort to Industrial Town -- Founding a Family -- The Mystical Wonders of Nature -- 2 With a Clear Goal -- Illness and Social Poverty -- A Model Student -- Brighter Horizons -- From Clerk to Chemist -- 3 Call of the Plants -- The Chemistry is Right in Basel -- In the Footsteps of Paracelsus -- Squill and Foxglove -- 4 Marriage and Family Bliss -- Turning Point -- Beginning of an Eternal Love -- War and Peace -- 5 LSD Finds Its Discoverer -- In the Beginning was the Ergot -- The Synthesis -- Potency -- The First Trip -- The Assistant -- 6 The Dose Makes the Poison -- Successful Drugs -- From Phantasticum to Entheogen -- The Effect of LSD -- Classification of Psychoactive Substances According to Their Effect -- Drugs -- 7 Researchers Discover LSD -- Mescaline -- Experiments on Animals -- The First Experiment on Humans -- The Psychotomimetic Paradigm -- A Helpful Tool for Psychotherapy -- Realms of Consciousness -- Trauma Therapy -- LSD Comes to England -- Studies in Saskatchewan -- Behind the Iron Curtain -- LSD Conquers America -- 8 The Search for a Truth Serum -- Dividing the World -- Experiments without Limits -- Understatement -- Iron Silence -- Serious Sweden -- In the Name of the Fatherland -- The Mystery of the Cursed Bread -- 9 Flesh of the Gods -- The Mushrooms Reach Basel -- The Kingdom of Sacred Plants and Mushrooms -- Teonanácatl -- Exploration -- Banker and Mycologist -- The Active Substance -- Psilocybin and Psilocin -- The Magic Vine -- Distrust -- The Magic Circle -- 10 The Mexico Expedition -- In the Land of the Mazatecs -- Ceremony with a Magical Plant -- The Spirit in the Pill -- The Consequences -- 11 Friendships and Encounters.
505 8 _aFamily Life -- Circles -- Interweavings -- Hermit in the Crystalline World -- Radiance and Convergence -- Almost a Friendship -- The Networker -- The Coronation -- 12 Metamorphoses at Harvard -- Vision of a New Psychology -- Psychedelic Revelation -- Academic Mushroom Circles -- Liberation Behind Bars -- The Man with the Mayonnaise Jar -- The End of Peace, Joy and Magic Mushrooms -- Millbrook -- Bureaucratic Hurdles -- The Woman from Washington -- Founding Years -- Multimedia Spectacle -- Changes of All Kinds -- Turn on, Tune in, Drop out -- 13 Fuel of the Sixties -- A Molecule Changed the World -- The Bohemians of Manhattan -- From the Laboratory into the Cuckoo's Nest -- Can You Pass the Acid Test? -- The Hog Farm -- Chemistry in the Underground -- The Trips Festival -- Dionysian Festivals -- Hippies? Hippies! -- A Peaceful Cultural Revolution -- Chemists for a Better World -- Flowers in Their Hair, Love in Their Hearts, LSD in Their Heads -- The Diggers -- Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll -- Sounds of the Sixties -- Acid House, Psytrance, Goa Trance -- The Desert Lives -- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds -- Woodstock -- Hair -- Swinging London -- Trips Around the World -- 14 The Great Repression -- Brotherhood of Eternal Love -- Demonization -- Verdict and Prohibition -- Underground Therapy -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Crime Scene Missile Silo -- Dedication to Freedom -- Outrage -- 15 Humane Therapies, Transpersonal Visions -- Divine Lightning -- Thirty Years of Research -- Encounter With Death -- The Cartographer -- Expanding of the Image of Humanity -- The Spectrum of Consciousness -- Human Potential -- An Alternative -- Interaction at Esalen -- 16 Spiritual Dimensions -- Mushrooms Instead of Fish -- The Missing Taboo -- Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy -- Journeys to the East -- In the Here and Now -- Buddhists and Psychedelics.
505 8 _aEcologist and Buddhist -- Zen Priest and Animal Welfare Advocate -- Instant Nirvana -- Cosmologist of Joy -- Psychosis and Enlightenment -- Tool of the Mind -- 17 Creativity and Art -- Intoxicated Literati -- Bee God and Sacred Mirrors -- A New Dimension of Art -- The Creativity Pill -- Psychedelia -- A New Perspective -- Encounters with Artists -- Comic Strips -- Art Instead of LSD -- High in Hollywood -- 18 Source of Inspiration -- From Uranium to LSD -- Open Minds, Open Systems -- All is One -- Legal, Illegal, Digital -- Gaia -- Symbiosis -- Nobel Prizes -- Peak Experiences -- 19 Ways of Life -- Another Discovery -- Paradise Found Again -- The Company -- Farewell to Sandoz -- Father and Apostle -- 20 Legacies -- The Problem Child -- The Translator -- The Media -- Plants of the Gods -- Wisdom of the Greeks -- Scholarly Dialogue -- At Eleusis -- 21 Insights and Outlooks -- A Good Question -- A Model of Reality -- Philosophy and Ecology -- Honors and Awards -- 22 Stimulus and Impetus -- A Belgian in Burg -- Visitors From Around the World -- Border Crosser -- The Tank and the Deep Self -- The Indian from Hamburg -- The Trip Advisor -- The Third Member -- 23 Wisdom of Years -- Reflections on Nature -- Secrets of a Long Life -- Frontier Areas -- Art and Ability -- A Grandson Remembers -- Albert Hofmann Turns One Hundred -- The Old Man and His Child -- Yet Another Tribute -- 24 Between Earth and Heaven -- Connections with the Whole World -- The Albert Hofmann Medal -- From Problem Child to Wonder Drug -- Back to the Future -- Behind Every Strong Man -- Farewell and Mourning -- Echo of a Life's Work -- The Ultimate Journey -- Appendix -- Retrospective on a Researcher's Life -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Publications by Albert Hofmann -- Photo Credits -- Index of Names -- About the Authors -- Other Books from Synergetic Press.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHofmann, Albert,-1906-2008.
650 0 _aChemists-Biography.
650 0 _aLSD (Drug)-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aWerthmüller, Lucius.
700 1 _aGrof, Stanislav.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aHagenbach, Dieter
_tMystic Chemist
_dLa Vergne : Synergetic Press,c2018
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6855918
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