- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Park Street Press,U.S. (1 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0892818972
- ISBN-13: 978-0892818976
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.3 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 986,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A wonderful book . . . the best book ever written in this complicated field."
Alan Watts
I consider the book very important and worthwhile. It is all in the right direction; it gives very sound directives for controlling the use of psychedelics instead of merely repressing them.
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This is a classic work from the time LSD was first brought into the world spotlight.
A treasure trove of contemporary stories, research and speculations with a useful forward and epilogue.
If you are interested in entheogens and their history, then this book is a must.
I found the particular edition I bought (Park Street Press) was rather hard to read due to the way the book was bound (narrow inner margin, 326 pages), its small size (slightly smaller than A5) and the small font used.
I recommend a bigger one for maximum reading enjoyment.
A treasure trove of contemporary stories, research and speculations with a useful forward and epilogue.
If you are interested in entheogens and their history, then this book is a must.
I found the particular edition I bought (Park Street Press) was rather hard to read due to the way the book was bound (narrow inner margin, 326 pages), its small size (slightly smaller than A5) and the small font used.
I recommend a bigger one for maximum reading enjoyment.
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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Best Ever Work About The Psychedelic Experience
10 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Brand new re-issue of the classic 1966 work.
If "The Doors Of Perception" was the most important work on psychedelics because of its influence, this then is by far the greatest because of its impeccable research, its far-ranging implications and its clear, lucid and compelling putting together of the evidence for the remarkable therapeutic and consciousness-illuminating value of LSD and other psychedelics (principally peyote). They don't, however, proselitize, and this is much to their credit. In fact, they go to some lengths to inform the reader that an active pro-drugs "for the sake of drugs" mindset is fraught with peril, and do so in a way that is both impartial and learned.
They're at their best, however, in their extraordinary recounting of the psychedelic experiences they conducted themselves as guides. There are so many instances where the subject, usually a person with a very intense psychological or emotional problem, arrived at a life-changing breakthrough, that it lingers long in the mind.
But the book is most of all a primer for their very lucid theory of the psychedelic experience and its various stages or levels. It is, in fact, so well thought out and explained, that this reviewer wonders why it had so little impact on the great body of psychedelic research, even after all these years. To me, it is the only theory that makes any sense and it's also the only one that could be used in a therapeutic setting so that the chances of errors or mistakes in guidance be effectively minimized.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Informative, eye-opening view of the psychedelic experience
22 Oct 2001
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Huston and Masters give a well detailed and extremely fair minded account of the psychedelic experience, primarily via LSD sessions that were recorded by observers who were trained in psychology. The book covers the myriad aspects of "the trip" from perceptions of the human body to the deep religious experience.
The book is somewhat more scholarly than the works of someone like Timothy Leary but this is what is needed if this movement is to ever regain its legitimacy in the eyes of the general public. While it does not condone the illegal use of the drugs, it decries their suppression and the utter halt of legitimate research into these fascinating and important substances. Read it with an open mind, but remember that the drugs are illegal and therefore also potentially dangerous. That aside, the book will almost certainly spark your curiousity.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
well written approach to psychedelic therapy
8 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
Very well written. Masters and Houston provide a description of what I would call their skeptically optimistic approach to psychedelic therapy.
They advance a theory on possible levels of the psychedelic expererience. Also, there is *a lot* of helpful advice to 'trip sitters'. If you are going to trip sit I reccommend reading this and looking at erowid.org.
They advance a theory on possible levels of the psychedelic expererience. Also, there is *a lot* of helpful advice to 'trip sitters'. If you are going to trip sit I reccommend reading this and looking at erowid.org.
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