Similarities and Differences Between Religious Mysticism and Drug-Induced Experiences

1. OSMUND, HUMPHRY. A Review of the Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents. (Address presented to the New York Academy of Sciences, April 12, 1956; mimeographed.)

2. Ibid.

3. STACE, WALTER T. The Teachings of the Mystics. New York: Mentor Books, 1960; pp. 14-15.

4. Ibid., p. 13.

5. JAMES, WILLIAM . The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Mentor Books, 1958. (paperback reprint); p. 298-298.

6. Ibid., p. 293.

7. MASLOW, ABRAHAM H. Toward a Psychology of Being. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1962.

8. MASLOW, ABRAHAM H. Lessons from the Peak-Experiences. Journal of Humanistic Psychol-ogy, Vol. 2 (1962), No. 1, p. 10-10.

9. ibid., p. 18.

10. LEARY, TIMOTHY , and CLARK, WALTER HOUSTON . Religious Implications of Consciousness-Expanding Drugs, Religious Education, May-June, 1963, p. 253-253.

11. BLEWETT, D. B. , and CHWELOS, N. Handbook of the Therapeutic Use of LSD-25. Published by the authors, 1960; mimeographed; p. 10-10.