Peter Stafford

Magic Mushrooms by Peter Stafford describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms. There are over 100 "entheogenic" fungi known to stimulate ecstatic states in curious seekers. Stafford recounts the known history of magic mushrooms, also called "sacred" mushrooms, and describes the interesting aspects of this extraordinary class of mind-changers. He tells how they are psychically relaxing and...

Provides a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. Stafford relays the history, botany, chemistry, physical and mental effects, forms, sources, and preparations of LSD—the most potent and representative of the class of drugs called psychedelics. Stafford claims that psychedelics offer surprising benefits to society and explores the record of promising studies that were truncated...