Tripping on utopia Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentatio...
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the future that never arrived
- Prophet of the long future (1923-1930)
- Society is the patient (1930-1933)
- Artificial paradises (1933-1939)
- "A respectable word for hypnosis" (1939-1943)
- The office of strategic services (1943-1944)
- Operation bittersweet (1944-1945)
- "A not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition" (1945-46)
- Deviants like myself (1946-1948)
- "The scientist is not outside" (1948-1949)
- Lights coming on in white rooms (1949-1950)
- The psychedelic Cold War (1950-1951)
- "Narcosynthesis is not very difficult" (1951-53)
- The telephone at the end of the world (1953-54)
- Nembutal and Siamese fighting fish (1954)
- The LSD sessions (1954)
- Gadabout (1954-55)
- The Learys and the Batesons (1955-57)
- Out of the lab (1957-1959)
- The fine line (1959-1960)
- Anthropologists from the 21st century (1960-61)
- Planes of fracture (1961-63)
- The deep end of the pool (1963)
- Carl Sagan at the dolphin lab (1963-65)
- Dialectics of liberation (1965-68)
- "If someone throws away the box, then what?" (1968-71)
- Esalen sunset (1971-1977)
- The blue glow of life (1977-1980).
