Set and setting, the mindset and environment of the person taking a psychedelic, are primary determinants of the experience's character and therapeutic outcome.

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• The Word That Changed Everything Editorial draft
• Schizophrenia from the Inside Editorial draft
• Al Hubbard and the Mystery Captain Editorial draft
• How a Psychiatric Hospital Should Look Editorial draft
• The Parting of Ways: Huxley, Leary, and the Decision Editorial draft
• Set and Setting: How Huxley and Osmond Built the Clinical Framework Editorial draft
• LSD at the End of Life: From Island to the Clinic Editorial draft
• The Long Road to Clinical Approval: From Weyburn to synthetic psilocybin Editorial draft
• Psychedelics and End-of-Life Care: A Policy Lag Editorial draft
• What We Call Them: Vocabulary, Policy, and the Framing of Psychedelic Drugs Editorial draft
• Why the Letters Matter More Than the Books Editorial draft
• Humphry Osmond's Underrated Legacy Editorial draft
• The Couplet That Won: Notes on Psychedelic Editorial draft
• Try to Be a Little Kinder Editorial draft
• Laura's Words at the End Editorial draft
• Set and Setting: The Clinical Evidence for Osmond's Framework Editorial draft
• Passage: The Naming Couplets Editorial draft
• Island and Its Limits: Huxley's Utopia Evaluated Editorial draft
• The Vocabulary of a New World Editorial draft

Reading list for this book

• Reading list: Moksha: Letters of Huxley & Osmond Reading list

NotebookLM packs on this book

• The First Letter NotebookLM source pack
• Decolonize This NotebookLM source pack

Bridge pieces that use this book

• The Two Letters of 1953: Huxley to Osmond, Dulles to the CIA Bridge piece
• The War Osmond Was Fighting and the War Anslinger Was Fighting Bridge piece
• The Experiment and the Institution: La Chorrera and the Weyburn Trials Bridge piece

Then vs. Now comparisons on this book

• The Psychedelic Word: Osmond's Coinage in 2025 Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD as Alcoholism Treatment: Hoffer-Osmond Results Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD Assisted Dying: Huxley's Death Then vs. Now comparison
• The Vision of Peaceful Death: Moksha Then vs. Now comparison
• The Clinical Model: Huxley and Osmond's Framework vs. Current Practice Then vs. Now comparison
• Osmond's Psychiatric Hospital Design: Sociopetal Space in 2026 Then vs. Now comparison
• The Psychedelic Research Network: Huxley and Osmond's Informal Institution Then vs. Now comparison
• The Integration Problem: What Huxley Got Right That the Clinic Is Still Solving Then vs. Now comparison
• Huxley's Political Prediction: Would Leary's Approach Produce Backlash? Then vs. Now comparison
• The Naming of the Experience: What Word Won and What Was Lost Then vs. Now comparison

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• Set and setting (mindset and environment) are primary determinants of psychedelic outcomes Claim
• A guided psychedelic session can produce lasting change in personality traits, specifically increases in... Claim
• The physical setting of a psychedelic session should be aesthetically comfortable and carefully prepared Claim
• LSD-assisted psychotherapy can achieve lasting sobriety in alcoholism at rates exceeding other available... Claim

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