MY ALTERED STATES: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Trauma, Psychedelics, and Spiritual Growth

Recounts dozens of Strassman's experiences of drug and non-drug altered states of consciousness from birth to early adulthood. Applies the lenses of four explanatory models--psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, Zen Buddhism, and medieval Jewish metaphysics--in understanding how and why they occurred, and more. Illus.