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For an entire generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, LSD, the hallucinatory drug which promised liberation of human consciousness, was the catalyst of an all-pervasive cultural revolution. This is the riveting account of the unique social phenomenon created by LSD.
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Storming Heaven LSD & The American Dream Author: Jay Stevens Publisher: Perennial Library Date: 1988 ISBN: 0-06097-172-X Endnote Errors: “no trek through virgin jungle …" Yage Letters, pp. 28-29. and “he shook a little broom …" Yage. pp. 28-29. and “I have always based my life ..." FB, p. 64. cannot be located in original text. Table of Contents Prologue: An Afternoon In The Sixties ....................................................................1 Book One: The Door In The Wall .............................................................................8 1. A Bike Ride In Basle .............................................................................................8 2. The Cinderella Science ........................................................................................ 15 3. Laboratory Madness ........................................................................................... 23 4. Intuition And Intellect......................................................................................... 28 5. The Door in the Wall........................................................................................... 38 6. Out In The Noonday Sun..................................................................................... 40 7. The Other World ................................................................................................ 49 8. Noises Offstage.................................................................................................. 63 Book Two: Pushing The Envelope ..........................................................