LSD, my problem child and Insights/outlooks / Albert Hofmann ; translated by Jonathan Ott ; edited by Amanda Feilding.

LSD, mein Sorgenkind. English. 2013

Insights/outlooks

Oxford : Beckley Foundation Press : Oxford University Press, [2013], ©2013.

xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Translations of: LSD, mein Sorgenkind and Einsichten, Ausblicke.

LSD, my problem child: Introduction -- How LSD originated -- LSD in animal experiments and biological research -- Chemical modifications of LSD -- Use of LSD in psychiatry -- From remedy to inebriant -- The Mexican relatives of LSD : [the sacred mushroom Teonanácatl, psilocybine and psilocine, the "magic morning glory" Ololiuhqui, and the "magic plant" Ska María Pastora] -- Radiance from Ernest Jünger -- Meeting with Aldous huxley -- Correspondence with the poet-physician Walter Vogt -- Various visitors -- LSD experience and reality -- Appendix: Chemical formulæ. -- Insights/Outlooks: Introduction -- The transmitter-receiver model of reality -- Security in the natural-scientific worldview -- On possession -- The sun as nuclear power-plant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from German.