Expanding Mindscapes

edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

INTRODUCTION 1
Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock
I EVALUATING EVIDENCE/EXPERIENCE 21
1 NECTAR OF THE BLUE GODDESS: A LIVING TRADITION OF SOMA CONSUMPTION IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA 23
Ian A. Baker
2 MESCALINE, BETWEEN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY: SARTRE AND EXPERIMENTATION IN 1930s FRANCE 51
Gautier Dassonneville
3 WOMEN, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY IN POSTWAR FRANCE 75
Zoë Dubus
4 MILAN HAUSNER, THE SADSKÁ CLINIC, AND THE FATE OF LSD PSYCHOTHERAPY IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA 99
Ross Crockford
5 REMEMBERING TO FORGET: HOW THE UK DISAPPEARED FROM THE PSYCHEDELIC MAP 121
Wendy Kline
6 EARLY EXPERIMENTAL LSD CULTURES IN THE CLINIC 141
Magaly Tornay
II GLOBAL NETWORKS OF PSYCHEDELIC KNOWLEDGE 165
7 FROM RUBBER ADULTERANT TO CEREMONIAL PSYCHEDELIC: VOACANGA AFRICANA IN THE TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION, 1894–2018 167
Timothy Vilgiate
8 FROM BWITI TO IBOGAINE AND BACK: A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF TABERNANTHE IBOGA 189
Julien Bonhomme
9 PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS FROM AND IN THE FIELDS: RURAL ROOTS AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTS OF LSD 215
Beat Bächi
10 THE FIRST APPLICATIONS OF LSD-25 IN SOUTH AMERICA (1954–1959) 239
Hernán Scholten and Gonzalo Salas
11 “I AM A SCIENTIST!” ROGER HEIM’S INTERDISCIPLINARY AND TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH ON HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS (AND THE PROBLEM OF DIVINATION) 261
Vincent Verroust
12 BEATITUDE, DREAD, AND MOTHER-BLAMING: THE ORIGINS OF CLINICAL THEOLOGY, FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND AND CANADA 285
Andrew Jones
13 PSYCHEDELICS, POLITICAL RADICALISM, AND TRANSNATIONAL ACID-ANARCHISM IN THE 1970s 309
Hallam Roffey
III PSYCHEDELICS AS CULTURAL PHENOMENA 331
14 “VIDEO IS AS POWERFUL AS LSD”: ELECTRONICS AND PSYCHEDELICS AS TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 333
Peter Sachs Collopy
15 FROM PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS TO MAGICAL CENTER: LSD IN THE NETHERLANDS 357
Stephen Snelders
16 AMONG DOCTORS, ARTISTS, AND POLICE: THE HISTORY OF LSD IN BRAZIL 379
Henrique Carneiro and Júlio Delmanto
17 PSYCHEDELICS IN ISRAEL: A BRIEF HISTORY 399
Ido Hartogsohn and Itamar Zadoff
18 DID THE MASTER’S TOOLS DISMANTLE THE MASTER’S HOUSE? ANTI-PSYCHIATRY, ROBIN FARQUHARSON, AND ACID ANARCHISM 423
Mark Gallagher
19 BECOMING MODERN IN CHINA WITH AN INDIGENOUS AMAZONIAN PSYCHEDELIC BREW 449
Alex K. Gearin
20 TRIPPING IN KARACHI: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND ITS FLUIDITY THROUGH PSYCHEDELIC SUBSTANCES 473
Manal Khan
CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF PSYCHEDELIC HISTORY 491
Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock
EPILOGUE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELICS 495
Mike Jay
Acknowledgments 503
Contributors 505
Index 511