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Psychedelic Horizons
by Tom Roberts
Publisher:
Imprint Academic 
Year:
2006 
Reviewed by Bruce Sewick
12/12/2006

In Psychedelic Horizons, Dr. Tom Roberts sums up his fascination with psychoactives in the following words: “As an educational psychologist, I am grateful to psychedelics for teaching me that our minds function in many mindbody states.” The exploration of the concept of different mindbody states is one of the more intriguing theories in Dr. Roberts’ book. [ read more ]

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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
by Andy Letcher
Publisher:
Faber & Faber 
Year:
2006 
Reviewed by Mike Jay
12/12/2006

In Shroom, Andy Letcher has cut through this dense tangle of pseudohistory and urban legend with bracing scepticism, clearing the space for an elegant and authoritative telling of the true story that it conceals. He establishes that although fungi have fascinated, inspired and revolted us throughout history, and one source of this fascination has certainly been their strange intoxicating properties, there are only two parts of the world – Mexico and Siberia – where there is clear evidence that these properties have been deliberately sought out and culturally sanctioned. [ read more ]