A definitive History of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley\'s The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it.
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His books on the History of drugs include High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture and The Atmosphere of Heaven .
About author(s): Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history.
Thompson, this is an enthralling narrative of mescaline\'s many lives.
Drawing on botany, pharmacology, ethnography, and the mind sciences and examining the mescaline experiences of figures from William James to Walter Benjamin to Hunter S.
Meanwhile peyote played a vital role in preserving and shaping Native American identity.
During the twentieth century it was used by psychologists investigating the secrets of consciousness, spiritual seekers from Aleister Crowley to the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, artists exploring the creative process, and psychiatrists looking to cure schizophrenia.
Mescaline was isolated in 1897 from the peyote cactus, First encountered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples.
A definitive History of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley\'s The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it
