The New Accelerator: Drugs and Mental Enhancement
Sigmund Freud experiments with cocaine
Neurasthenia, disease of modernity
The search for a stimulant
A history of self experiment
Objectivity and heroic doses
Medical miracle, scourge of humanity
The arrival of the addict
The wonders of the pharmacy
Jekyll and Hyde personalities
Sherlock Holmes on cocaine
Modernity and its discontents
Beyond the Veil: Drugs and the Limits of Consciousness
A World of Pure Experience
William James experience with nitrous oxide
The Anaesthetic Revelation
Laughing gas at the carnival
Surgery without pain, consciousness without a body
The meaning of hallucinations
The psychical researchers
Drugs and the spirit world
The mysteries of double consciousness
Ether, literature and madness in fin-de-siècle Paris
William James's multiverse and the new century
Saturnalia of the Senses: Drugs and the Creative Imagination
Tales of the Hashish Eaters
Silas Burroughs in Morocco Arabian Nights and Assassins
The experiments of Dr Moreau
Hashish and the arabesque
Baudelaire, drugs and modernity
Extasia, Fantasia and Illuminati
Rosicrucian hashish elixirs
W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne on the astral plane
The hashish houses of New York
A Sin, a Crime, a Vice or a Disease?
1900: the arrival of 'drugs'
Drugs, class and race in the Progressive Era
The decline of introspection
The transgressions of Aleister Crowley
1960-2: the watershed years
Global prohibition, global drug culture
Robert Graves on mushrooms
The invention of psychedelics
Mystical experience reborn
The return of the psychonauts.
