Introduction by Gunther M.Weil

"Can This Drug Enlarge Man's Mind?" by Gerald Heard

"The Subjective After-Effects of Psychedelic Experiences: A Summary of Four Recent Questionnaire Studies" by The Editors

"The Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico: An Inquiry Into the Origins of the Religious Idea Among Primitive Peoples" by R.Gordon Wasson

"Provoked Life: An Essay on the Anthropology of the Ego" by Gottfried Benn

"The Individual as Man/World" by Alan W.Watts
(originally delivered as an impromptu lecture for the Social Relations Colloquium at Harvard University, 12 April 1963)

"Annihilating Illumination" by George Andrews

"Psychosis: 'Experimental' and Real" by Joe K.Adams

"Botanical Sources of The New World Narcotics" by Richard E.Schultes

"Herman Hesse: Poet of the Interior Journey" by Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner

"Psychometabolism" by Sir Julian Huxley

"Some Comments Concerning Dosage Levels of Psychedelic Compounds for Psychotherapeutic Experiences" by Gary M.Fisher

"Notes on the Present Status of Ololiuhqui and the Other Hallucinogens of Mexico" by R.Gordon Wasson

"The Religious Experience: Its Production & Interpretation" by Timothy Leary

"Psychedelics And the Law: A Prelude in Question Marks" by Roy C.Bates

"The Treatment of Frigidity with LSD & Ritalin" by Thomas M.Ling & John Buckman

LSD & Psychotherapy: A Bibliography of the English-Language Literature by Sanford M.Unger

Index

"The Psychedelic 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 groundbreaking journal had a dramatic impact on its times, attracting a large and avid readership among academics and the burgeoning psychedelic underground.

"The articles included in this anthology appeared long before the media, the Beatles, and the counterculture reduced psychedelia to yet another faddish commodity... Touching on everything from the poetry of Herman Hesse to specific dosage levels, The Psychedelic Reader treats its subject with an engaging combination of adventure and solemnity." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1997]