Description

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This second edition includes a new preface by professor emeritus in psychology, Dr. Charles T. Tart. The book covers one of the most exciting research eras in psychology and psychiatry"the use of psychedelic drugs and their ramifications for exploration of the mind"is discussed with emphasis on the connection of ESP to psychedelics and our transpersonal nature. As Dr. Tart states, this study remains as important today as when it was first published, and will hopefully guide a new generation of researchers to finding the knowledge we need.

About the Author

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Dr. Robert Cavanna was an Italian biochemist with a Ph.D. from the University of Rome who was interested in general extrasensory perception. He engaged in research on the relationship between states of consciousness, as affected by psychopharmaceuticals, with the occurrence of psi phenomena in volunteers, both normal and sensitive Dr. Emilio Servadio, psychoanalyst, prolific author, cofounder of the Italian Society for Parapsychology, was interested in telepathy and ESP from the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic points of view. Long-time president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Center of Rome, he was particularly interested in telepathy and ESP, and investigated mediums and miraculous healers.