Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience [Paperback]

A comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences.

Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research to create?Otherworlds - Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience.

Emphasizing parapsychological aspects of the psychedelic experience, Lukes new book fills in a fascinating and previously neglected lacuna in the burgeoning field of human studies with these compounds.   Rick Strassman, PhD?

A psychedelic Indiana Jones.   Matt Colborn, PhD

David Lukes delightful one-liner about his book is that its about weird people in weird places taking weird substances doing weird things and, importantly, having weird experiences . . . On reflection, its much more profound than that . . . So weird reader, forge ahead without fear.   Dean Radin, PhD?

In his fascinating book David plunges into this controversial topic and gives the backstory, the front story, and possible ways forward to bring paranormal and psychedelic research together, and further our understanding of both.   Dennis J. McKenna, PhD?

A remarkable collection and a necessary one. This body of research illuminates aspects of psychedelic experiences usually obscured or denied in the medical and clinical research and sensationalized in the popular press.   James Fadiman, PhD

A real Dr Gonzo.   Will Self

Dr David Lukeis Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and Lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology for Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University.

He was President of the Para-psychological Association, founded the Ecology, Cosmos and Col3(