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FOREWORD Stephen Batchelor

PREFACE Huston Smith

INTRODUCTION Allan Badiner

Section One: INTERSECTION

THE PLANT MEDICINE SUTRA Robert Schrei

A NEW LOOK AT THE PSYCHEDELIC TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Ralph Metzner

MYSTICISM: Contemplative and Chemical Roger Walsh

DISSOLVING THE ROOTS OF SUFFERING Dokushô Villalba

A HIGH HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA Rick Fields

PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: DISCUSSION WITH JACK KORNFIELD Robert Forte

BUDDHISM, SHAMANISM, AND THANGK A PAINTINGS Claudia Müller-Eberling

and Christian Rätsch

A BUDDHIST-PSYCHEDELIC HISTORY OF ESALEN INSTITUTE–INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MURPHY AND GEORGE LEONARD Allan Badiner

SHADOW PATHS Peter Matthiessen

A SURVE Y OF THE ENTHEOGENS Robert Jesse

Section Two: CONCRESCENCE?

VAJRAVISION Alex Grey

DMT DHARMA Rick J. Strassman, MD

PSYCHOACTIVISM David Chadwick

LE ANING INTO RAWNESS Trudy Walter

RELATIVE TRUTH Brigid Meier

YAGÉ AND THE YANAS Allan Badiner

JUNGLE DHARMA: THE INTERWEAVING OF BUDDHISM AND AYAHUASCA David Coyote

BUDDHIST HARM REDUCTION AND CANNABIS Jana Drakka

A TRIP NOT TAKEN China Galland

THE PAISLEY GATE Erik Davis

Section Three: LESSONS

PSYCHE DELICS ON THE PATH: HELP OR HINDRANCE? Charles T. Tart

BUDDHISM AND THE PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY–INTERVIEW WITH TERENCE MCKENNA Allan Badiner

LIBERTY AND LSD John Perry Barlow

RICK DOBLIN Interviewed by Allan Badiner

WAKING YOURSELF Brad Warner

THE ZEN COMMANDMENTS Lama Surya Das

ON THE FRONT LINES Interview with Michele McDonald

DO WE STILL NEED PSYCHEDELICS? Myron Stolaroff

BUDDHISM AND PSYCHEDELICS: A Public Dialogue with James Fadiman and Kokyo Henkel

A ROUNDTABLE WITH RAM DASS, ROBERT AITKEN ROSHI, RICHARD BAKER ROSHI, AND JOAN HALIFAX ROSHI Allan Badiner

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