The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review

'The Psychedilic Review' was founded in 1963 as a serious journal dedicated to the study of the mind-expanding potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelic substances. Presenting experts in the fields of anthropology, religion, pharmacology, poetry and metaphysics, this grounbreaking journal had a dramatic impact on its times, attracting a large and avid readership among academics and the burgeoning phychedelics underground.

The articles included in this anthology appeared long before the media, the Beatles, and the counterculture reduced phychedelia to yet another faddish commodity. The writers in 'The Psychedelic Reader' include Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Sir Julian Huxley, and Ralph Metzner on subjects as varied and fascinating as "The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation" and "Botanical Sources of New World Narcotics." Touching on everthing from the poetry of Herman Hesse to specific dosage levels, 'The Psychedelic Reader' treats its subject with an engaging combination of adventure and solemnnity.

This Citadel Underground edition of 'The Psychedelic Reader' invites a new generation of readers to be present at the creation of a new consciousness.
[Taken from the back cover]