States of Consciousness

Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of sc...

Celebrating the groundbreaking lifes work of Stanislav Grof, MD, pioneer in psychedelic research and transpersonal psychology. Created in honour of...

Do you sometimes wake from dreaming with an unease you find difficult to shake? Is there one recurring nightmare that haunts you? Or do dreams brin...

Neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinatin...

It has been more than 50 years since sacred mushrooms were plucked from the shamanic backwaters of Mexico and presented to the modern world by R. G...

Research over the past decade has helped to demystify hypnosis and meditation, bringing these practices into the scientific and clinical mainstream...

Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unre...

Neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinatin...

An original, wide-ranging contribution to the study of French writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book examines the ways ...