Mike Jay is a freelance journalist and cultural historian. He is author of many books including Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind; Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century; High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture; Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic; This [...]

Don Lattin, a former journalist, is author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge; Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today; The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove reports on research conducted by Petter Johnstad, from the University of Bergen, Norway, who conducted interviews with individuals who reported experiencing telepathic states while under the influence of psychedelic substances. Most of these individuals were not able to reproduce the experience at will. Several experienced psychological discomfort. However, some found it to be [...]