The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: A Quest for Unity in Consciousness

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Andrew Weil continues to report from the frontiers of consciousness. These essays examine solar eclipses, laughter, marijuana, chilies, mushrooms, sweat-lodge ceremonies, coffee, yagé, cocaine, and more, and, as we have come to expect, they are well written, provocative, and persuasive. The following chapters in this book previously appeared in various publications: ‘Throwing Up in Mexico,” in High Times; ‘Coffee Break,” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs; ‘‘When It’s Mango Time Down South,” in Journal of Altered States of Consciousness and High Times; ‘‘Eating Chilies,” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs and Harper's Weekly; ‘A Good Fit,” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs; “Mushrooms I” in Journal of Altered States of Consciousness; ‘‘Mushrooms II” and ‘Mushrooms III”’ in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs and Journal of Altered States of Consciousness; ‘‘In the Land of Yagé,” in Journal of Altered States of Consciousness and High Times; ‘‘Is Heroin as Dangerous as White Sugar?” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, High Times, and The Diner's Club Way (published in Colombia); “The Green and the White,” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs and Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, and in The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers, edited by George Andrews and David Solomon (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich); ‘Some Notes on Datura,” in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs; ‘‘The Love Drug, in Journal of Psychedelic Drugs; ‘‘“Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Magic of Uri Geller,” in Psychology Today; ‘“When the Sun Dies,’ in Harper's; ‘“The Marriage of the Sun and Moon,” in Alternate States of Consciousness, edited by Norman E. Zinberg, copyright © 1977 by the Free Press, a Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. The Marriage of the Sun and Moon Acknowledgments Contents 1 Departure 2 Throwing Up in Mexico 3 Coffee Break 4 When It’s Mango Time Down South 5 Eating Chilies 6 A Good Fit 7 Mushrooms I 8 Mushrooms II 9 Mushrooms III 10 Marijuana Reconsidered 11 In the Land of Yagé 12 Is Heroin as Dangerous as White Sugar? 13 The Green and the White: Coca and Cocaine 14 Some Notes on Datura 15 The Love Drug 16 Reading the Windows of the Soul 17 Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Magic of Uri Geller 18 When the Sun Dies 19 The Marriage of the Sun and Moon Glossary Suggested Reading Index