Psychonauts: drugs and the making of the modern mind

Prologue: Before Drugs

Part I The New Accelerator: Drugs And Mental Enhancement

1 The Elixir Of Life

2 Prosthetic Gods

Part II Beyond The Veil: Drugs And The Limits Of Consciousness

3 A World Of Pure Experience

4 The Unseen Region

Part III Saturnalia Of The Senses: Drugs And The Creative Imagination

5 Tales Of The Hashish Eaters

6 Extasia, Fantasia And Illuminati

Part IV Lost And Found

7 A Sin, A Crime, A Vice Or A Disease?

8 Twice-Born

Epilogue: After Drugs

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index