The Psychedelic Future of the Mind

by Roberts, Thomas B., Ph.d.

• ISBN13: 9781594774591
• ISBN10: 1594774595
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-23
• Publisher: Park Street Pr

Summary

Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity

• Outlines a future that embraces psychedelics as tools for cognitive development, personal growth, business, and an experience-based religious reformation

• Presents research on the use of psychedelics to enhance problem-solving, increase motivation, boost the immune system, and deepen ethical values

• Includes chapters by Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., and Charles Grob, M.D., on their psychedelic research on religious experience and alleviating the fear of death

As psychedelic psychotherapy gains recognition through research at universities and medical establishments such as the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute and Bellevue Hospital, the other beneficial uses of psychedelics are beginning to be recognized and researched as well--from enhancing problem-solving and increasing motivation to boosting the immune system and deepening moral and ethical values.

Exploring the bright future of psychedelics, Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., reveals how new uses for entheogens will enrich individuals as well as society as a whole. With contributions from Charles Grob, M.D., and Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., the book explains how psychedelics can raise individual and business attitudes away from self-centeredness, improve daily life with strengthened feelings of meaningfulness and spirituality, and help us understand and redesign the human mind, leading to the possibility of a neurosingularity--a time when future brains surpass our current ones. Roberts envisions a future where you will seek psychedelic therapy not only for psychological reasons but also for personal growth, creative problem solving, improved brain function, and heightened spiritual awareness.

Our psychedelic future is on the horizon--a future that harnesses the full potential of mind and spirit--and Thomas Roberts outlines a path to reach it.

Author Biography

Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he has taught the world’s first catalog-listed psychedelics course since 1981. A former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, the editor of Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, coeditor of Psychedelic Medicine, and author of Psychedelic Horizons, he lives in DeKalb, Illinois.

Table of Contents

A Note to Readers

Introduction: A Short Trail Guide to This Book

Part 1
The Experience That Alters All Others

1 Our Psychedelic Future
2 Humanity’s Taproot
3 Raising Values
4 The New Religious Era
5 Psychedelics and Religious Experiences--What Is the Relationship? by Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., D.H.L.
6 Do Psychedelic-induced Mystical Experiences Boost the Immune System?
7 Psychedelic Psychotherapy Near the End of Life by Charles S. Grob, M.D., and Alicia L. Danforth

Part 2
High-Yield Ideas--Multistate Theory and the Fruitful Mind

8 Multistate Theory--Apps Are to Devices as Mindbody States Are to Minds
9 Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, Expanding Cognitive Studies
10 New Intellectual Endeavors
11 It’s a Perinatal World--Hitler and War, Sartre and Mescaline, Snow White and Fight Club
12 The Neurosingularity Project--When Bigger Heads and Better Brains Surpass Our Current Ones

Part 3
From Lab to Life, From Clinic to Campus

13 Reaching the Unreachable Public While Raising $1+ Billion for Psychedelic R & D via Crowdfunding--A Biz-fi Speculation
14 It Means Something Different to be Well Educated
15 You Teach What? Where?

Conclusion: Hopes

Appendix: Community Psychedelic Centers International, Inc.--Notes for a Prospectus

References

Index