SBN none listed (UK pbk)

"This book is about molecules and how powerful ones can sometimes affect the human mind..." --Peter Stafford.

"Over a quarter of a century has passed since Albert Hoffman stumbled on the mental effect of LSD-25. During the last decade it has become increasingly apparent that whatever attitude society takes to LSD and related drugs, they cannot be disregarded." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1972]

"My personal feeling, after having watched the effects of these substances for over ten years,...is that the psychedelic invasion is something fundamentally new to our culture... What we are seeing is a transforming wave over society..." --Peter Stafford.

"Peter Stafford has examined the wider implications of psychedelic drugs. Drawing on his own experience and thorough research and that of many users and investigators (both favourable and hostile) of LSD, he shows how the psychedelic invasion has not only influenced the generally accepted field of art but is beginning to profoundly alter the attitude of many to politics, business and every aspect of society.

"In this assemblage of his own writings, newspaper reports and taped interviews with a wide variety of people including Alan Watts, Steve Abrams and Allen Ginsberg, he presents an impressive body of evidence in support of his thesis that from the first discovery of LSD a social revolution was inevitable and that the LSD experience can no longer be regarded as periphral. It has become an essential factor in the moulding of society and social attitudes of today." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1972]

"No review yet." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , January 1998).