Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals

Cambridge: Psychedelic Information Center, 1968.
First Edition.

19cm x 13cm. 32 pages. Lettered saddle-stapled wrappers.

An uncommon pamphlet by one of the lesser-known figures in the early psychedelic movement. Lisa Bieberman founded the Psychedelic Information Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was one of relatively few women to publish independently within a scene dominated by male voices: Leary, Alpert, Metzner, and Watts chief among them. While associated with, though not central to, the Harvard psychedelic milieu, she maintained a degree of distance from Leary’s more overtly charismatic and spiritual positioning. Here Bieberman proposes a Western religious and philosophical framework for understanding psychedelic experience, pushing back against the prevailing tendency to graft Eastern mysticism onto what she regarded as a distinct mode of encounter.

Very minor tanning and shelf wear to wrappers. Near Fine Condition.

AU$400.00

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