Thomas Hatsis

An exploration of the historical origins of the witches' ointment and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources. Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into "witches' ointments". Shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections all over the world, as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for...

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions offers a comprehensive look at the long tradition of psychedelic magic and religion in Western Civilization. It explores the use of psychedelics and entheogens from Neolithic times through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance to the Victorian era and beyond. It reveals how psychedelics were integrated into pagan and Christian magical practices and demonstrates how one...

A detailed history of the blossoming of psychedelic research in the 1950s Exploring the initial stages of psychedelic study in Europe and America, Thomas Hatsis offers a full history of the psychedelic-fuelled revolution in healing and consciousness expansion that blossomed in the 1950s—the first “golden age” of psychedelic research. Revealing LSD as a “wonder child” rather than Albert Hofmann’s infamous...