The Sacred Drug and the Dominator Drug: Hofmann and McKenna on Alcohol

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• The Stoned Ape at the Edge of History Editorial draft
• Ergot and the Pharmacist's Daughter Editorial draft
• The Day the Manufacturer Lost Control Editorial draft
• The Chemist and the Sacred Mushrooms Editorial draft
• One Hundred and Two Years Editorial draft
• The Crystal Structure of the Trip Editorial draft
• Paonia to Berkeley: McKenna's Education Editorial draft
• Botanical Dimensions: The Garden McKenna Built Editorial draft
• Before Food of the Gods: The Invisible Landscape Editorial draft
• The Handbook That Changed Everything Editorial draft
• The Brain Tumor and the Last Year Editorial draft
• The Case Against McKenna Editorial draft
• Language as Reality: McKenna's Linguistics Editorial draft
• McKenna and the Noosphere: Before the Internet Editorial draft
• McKenna vs. Sagan: Two Cosmologies Editorial draft
• The Discoverer's Dilemma: Hofmann, LSD, and the Problem of Intention Editorial draft
• April 19, 1943: What Hofmann Didn't Know He Was Starting Editorial draft
• The Stoned Ape: Between Hypothesis and Myth Editorial draft
• The Dominator Screen: McKenna's Media Critique in the Algorithm Age Editorial draft
• What the Clinical Record Actually Showed: LSD Therapy 1947-1968 Editorial draft
• Schedule I at Fifty-Five: The Science vs. the Scheduling Editorial draft
• Who Owns the Trip: Psychedelic Patents and the Enclosure Problem Editorial draft
• Cluster Headaches and LSD: The Orphan Indication Editorial draft
• The Ecological Drug War: What Prohibition Costs the Planet Editorial draft
• Ibogaine and the Veterans: McKenna's Afterlife in Policy Editorial draft
• Decriminalization Models: Oregon, Colorado, and What Comes Next Editorial draft
• The Right to Alter Your Own Consciousness Editorial draft
• The Hunch That Started Everything Editorial draft
• The Bicycle and the Myth Editorial draft
• What Makes a Problem Child Editorial draft
• Sacred Drug: Hofmann's Most Unfashionable Word Editorial draft
• The Mushroom Spoke: McKenna's Literal Claim Editorial draft
• Television Is a Drug: The Argument That Aged Best Editorial draft
• The Archaic Revival: Is It Happening? Editorial draft
• The Notion of Illegal Plants Editorial draft
• In Defense of the Stoned Ape (As a Question) Editorial draft
• Hofmann's Sacred Drug Hypothesis: Mystical Experience as Mechanism Editorial draft
• The Stoned Ape: What the Evidence Actually Shows Editorial draft
• Passage: The Bicycle Ride Editorial draft
• Passage: Television as Dominator Drug Editorial draft
• The Basel Years: How a Pharmaceutical Company Handled a Sacred Drug Editorial draft
• The Australian Model: What Happens When a Country Actually Approves Editorial draft
• April 19, 1943 Editorial draft

Reading list for this book

• Reading list: LSD: My Problem Child Reading list
• Reading list: Food of the Gods Reading list

NotebookLM packs on this book

• April 19, 1943 NotebookLM source pack
• The Stoned Ape NotebookLM source pack

Science annotations on this book

• Psilocybin mushrooms catalyzed the evolution of human consciousness and the doubling of the hominin brain... Science annotation
• A single psychedelic session can produce lasting psychological change persisting for months or years, not... Science annotation

Then vs. Now comparisons on this book

• The Stoned Ape: Was McKenna Right? Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD Potency: The Threshold Claim Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD and Mystical Experience: Hofmann's Claim Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD as Sacred Drug: The 1965 Prohibition Then vs. Now comparison
• Bicycle Day Chemistry: What Hofmann Synthesized Then vs. Now comparison
• The Stoned Ape in 2025: Neuroscience Weighs In Then vs. Now comparison
• The Dominator Culture Argument: McKenna's Political Analysis Then vs. Now comparison
• Television as Dominator Drug: McKenna's Media Theory Then vs. Now comparison
• Psychedelics and the War on Drugs: McKenna's Prediction Then vs. Now comparison
• The Archaic Revival: Has It Happened? Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD and the Law: Hofmann's Hope for Rescheduling Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD in Switzerland 2026: The Country That Never Stopped Then vs. Now comparison
• LSD's Crystal Structure and the Duration Mechanism Then vs. Now comparison
• Cluster Headaches and LSD: The Orphan Indication Hofmann Didn't Know About Then vs. Now comparison
• MDMA and LSD: Hofmann's Two 'Problem Children' Then vs. Now comparison
• The Neuroplasticity Mechanism: What Hofmann Couldn't Have Known Then vs. Now comparison
• The Ibogaine-Veterans Coalition: McKenna's Afterlife in Policy Then vs. Now comparison
• The Illegal Plant Argument: McKenna's Constitutional Challenge Then vs. Now comparison
• McKenna's Ecological Argument: Psychedelics and the Environmental Crisis Then vs. Now comparison
• The Botanical Dimensions Archive: Did McKenna's Garden Survive? Then vs. Now comparison
• The Decriminalization Models McKenna Called For: Oregon, Colorado, and What Came Next Then vs. Now comparison

Claims from this book

• Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex Claim
• Mystical experience quality predicts therapeutic outcomes better than drug dose alone Claim
• Psilocybin-containing mushrooms catalyzed human cognitive evolution through regular consumption by early... Claim
• Hofmann's LSD is best understood as a 'sacred drug' rather than a psychiatric tool Claim
• Television is a dominator drug that produces passivity and compliance Claim
• FDA approval of psilocybin-assisted therapy would make it broadly accessible to patients who need it Claim
• The psychedelic renaissance represents a genuine cultural shift, an Archaic Revival in McKenna's sense Claim
• Ibogaine is the most promising psychedelic for treating opioid use disorder and PTSD in veterans Claim
• LSD is not addictive in the conventional sense, it does not produce physical dependence or compulsive use... Claim
• LSD microdosing (sub-perceptual doses) produces measurable cognitive benefits Claim
• A single psilocybin session can produce lasting reduction in tobacco addiction Claim
• Psilocybin increases nature connectedness and pro-environmental attitudes Claim
• The human drive to alter consciousness is as fundamental as hunger or sex Claim
• Social media platforms are designed to exploit psychological vulnerabilities in ways that structurally... Claim

Other pages in this library that link here

• The First Contacts Course module
• The Science of the Experience Course module
• The Suppression Course module
• The Cultural Reckoning Course module
• Psychedelic Science for Science Writers Teaching module
• Decolonizing Psychedelic Research: Frameworks and Practices Teaching module