1 Roger Heim with a culture of Psilocybe mexicana at the cryptogamy laboratory of the MNHN in Paris, c. 1958. Reproduced with the permission of the MNHN.

1 Roger Heim with a culture of Psilocybe mexicana at the cryptogamy laboratory of the MNHN in Paris, c. 1958. Reproduced with the permission of the MNHN.

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The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of thes...

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