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15. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; and Other Writings (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), 74.
16. As cited in Hodgson, Into the Arms of Morpheus, 45.
17. I’ve taken the liberty of smoothing out some of the arcane punctuation and spelling in this poem. Cited in full in Hodgson, Into the Arms of Morpheus, 65.
18. Wilkie Collins, Armadale (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), 513–14.
19. Hodgson, Into the Arms of Morpheus, 93.
20. Alphonse Daudet, L’évangeliste, as cited in Hodgson, Into the Arms of Morpheus, 93.
21. Russell, Conquest of Happiness, 51.
CHAPTER 7: RELIGION AND REVELATION
1. If you look at Psalm 104, you find that much is foreign: we do not value oil to make our faces shine; religious leaders mostly do not dismiss the idea of an afterlife for animals; we believe the Earth does move and the sun does not move around us; we believe that the waters will come back over the Earth. It has all been made into nonsense, except the part about wine; it still gladdens the heart.
2. James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 297.
3. James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 298. This discussion continues: “How to regard them is the question,—for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality.”
4. Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception” and “Heaven and Hell” (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), 22–23.
5. Huxley, Doors of Perception, 26.
6. Huxley, Doors of Perception, 41.
7. Huxley, Doors of Perception, 73.
8. Huxley, Doors of Perception, 69.
9. Huxley, Doors of Perception, 79.
10. Rick Doblin, “Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment’: A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique,” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 23, no. 1 (1991). The full text is available at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/doblin.htm.
11. Jeanne Malmgren, “The Good Friday Marsh Chapel Experiment; THEN—Rev. Mike Young—NOW ‘TUNE IN, TURN ON, GET WELL?,’” St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1994.
12. Mary Barnard, “The God in the Flowerpot,” American Scholar, Autumn 1963, 584, 586.
13. Henri Bergson had suggested that the Hindus’ and Greeks’ invention of religion was a “divine rapture” found in intoxicating beverages; Robert Graves and Alan Watts also talked about the origins of all religion being traceable to chemical highs. Recently, Dutch historian Herman Pleij has agreed, saying that the medieval period was experienced in the vivid reverie and generative stupor of all sorts of natural intoxicants: “Where did the penchant for mysticism come from otherwise?” Pleij, Dreaming of Cockaigne, 127. I cannot fully agree, as drugless religious bliss exists; but there is clearly something to the idea.
14. Huston Smith, “Do Drugs Have Religious Import?” Journal of Philosophy 61, no. 18 (September 17, 1964): 517–30.
15. Smith found the first quote in Willis W. Harman, “The Issue of the Consciousness-Expanding Drugs,” Main Currents in Modern Thought 20, no. 1 (September–October 1963): 10–11. The second experience was quoted by William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience and was attributed by James to a Dr. R. M. Bucke, the author of Cosmic Consciousness.
16. Smith, “Do Drugs Have Religious Import?” See: http://www.druglibrary.org/ schaffer/lsd/hsmith.htm for a searchable full text of the article.
17. Smith, “Do Drugs Have Religious Import?” 530.
CHAPTER 8: DRUGS TODAY: MUSIC AND SOLACE
1. “Better Than Well,” Economist, April 6, 1996, 99–100.
2. Julie Holland, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide: A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2001).
3. “Using MDMA in Alternative Medicine: An Interview with Andrew Weil,” in Holland, Ecstasy, 287.
4. Nicholas Saunders, with Rick Doblin, Ecstasy: Dance, Trance, and Transformation (Oakland,