Setting the stage ; Foundations of psychedelic-assisted therapy ; Psilocybin: the bridge between science and mysticism ; LSD: transformation in death and rebirth ; MDMA and nonlinearity ; Ketamine and connection
Psychedelics in everyday life
Recreational use ; Microdosing ; Creativity and imagination
Integration and exploration
Mescaline and the Garden of Eden ; Ibogaine and practical integration ; 5-MeO-DMT and nonduality ; DMT: beholding the mystery
Indigenous roots of the revival ; Deconstructing shamanism down the Amanita rabbit hole ; Iboga and the single story ; Ayahuasca and the spirit world ; Peyote and reciprocity ; Crossing the threshold
The psychedelic shadow ; Entering the shadow realm ; Debates over the psychedelic future ; Psychedelic stigmatization in psychedelic science ; Bypassing and abuses of power ; Psychedelic exceptionalism ; Destabilization and death
Epilogue: speculative synthesis of the philosopher’s stone.
