Table of Contents

Foreword by Stephen Batchelor
Preface by Huston Smith
Introduction by Allan Hunt Badiner

Section One: Intersection
The Plant Medicine Sutra by Robert Schrei
Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical by Roger Walsh
Dissolving the Roots of Suffering by Dokush Villalba
A High History of Buddhism in America by Rick Fields
Psychedelic Experience and Spiritual Practice: A Buddhist Perspective – Interview with Jack Kornfield by Robert Forte
Buddhism, Shamanism, and Thangka Paintings by Claudia Müeller-Eberling and Christian Räetsch
A Buddhist-Psychedelic History of Esalen Institute – Interview with Michael Murphy and George Leonard
Shadow Paths by Peter Matthiessen
A Survey of the Entheogens by Robert Jesse

Section Two: Concrescence?
Vajravision by Alex Grey
DMT Dharma by Rick J. Strassman, M.D.
Psychoactivism by David Chadwick
Leaning Into Rawness by Trudy Walter
Relative Truth by Brigid Meier
Yagé and the Yanas by Allan Hunt Badiner
A Trip Not Taken by China Galland
The Paisley Gate by Erik Davis

Section Three: Lessons
Psychedelics on the Path: Help or Hindrance? by Charles T. Tart
Buddhism and the Psychedelic Society - An Interview with Terence McKenna
Liberty and LSD by John Perry Barlow
The Zen Commandments by Lama Surya Das
On the Front Lines - Interview with Michele McDonald-Smith
Do We Still Need Psychedelics? by Myron Stolaroff
A Roundtable with Ram Dass, Robert Aitken Roshi, Richard Baker Roshi, and Joan Halifax