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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Images of Women and Drugs in Myth and History | |
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| Greece and Crete | |
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| The Pleiades | |
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| Mycenaean Poppy Goddess | |
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| Helen of Troy | |
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| Circe | |
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| Pythia: The Delphic Oracle | |
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| Demeter and Persephone | |
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| Sappho | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Hathor | |
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| Isis | |
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| Nefertiti | |
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| Cleopatra | |
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| Asia Minor and India | |
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| Eve | |
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| Apsarasas | |
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| Scheherazade | |
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| Houris | |
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| Europe | |
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| Alchemists | |
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| Witches | |
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| Nonwestern Cultures | |
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| Seven Sisters of Sleep | |
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| Mama Coca | |
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| Harvesting Opium | |
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| Kavakava Ceremony | |
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| Iboga Initiation | |
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| Visionary Vine | |
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| Peyote Woman | |
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| Sacred Plants of Mexico | |
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| Opium and the Victorian Imagination | |
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| From "The Maniac" | |
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| "The Development of Genius" | |
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| "A True Dream" | |
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| From Valentine | |
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| From At Home and Abroad | |
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| "An Opium Fantasy" | |
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| From Villette | |
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| Untitled poem | |
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| "Perilous Play" | |
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| The Hookah, 1770-1885 | |
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| From Twenty Years at Hull-House | |
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| From Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt | |
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| "An Opium Dream" | |
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| The Pipe and the Needle, 1880-90 | |
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| "An Overdose of Hasheesh" | |
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| From A Mad Tour, Or a Journey Undertaken in an Insane Moment Through Central Europe on Foot | |
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| Patent Medicines | |
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| Coca Wine and Cocaine, 1880-1900 | |
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| Expatriates and Vagabonds | |
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| "The Oblivion Seekers" | |
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| From Chicago May: Her Story | |
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| From The House of Mirth | |
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| From The Ashes of My Heart | |
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| From Movers and Shakers and Edge of Taos Desert | |
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| Hopheads, Snowbirds, and Vipers in Song | |
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| "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" | |
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| "Cocaine Lil" | |
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| "If You're a Viper" | |
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| White Lady | |
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| "Lunar Baedeker" | |
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| "Appalling Heart" | |
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| "Cocaine (Snow Poem)" | |
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| From The Passionate Years | |
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| From No Bed of Roses: The Diary of a Lost Soul | |
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| The War on Drugs | |
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| From Sister of the Road | |
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| From "The Big Smoke" | |
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| Mainline Ladies | |
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| From The Lonely Trip Back | |
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| From Lady Sings the Blues | |
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| From The Fantastic Lodge: The Autobiography of a Girl Drug Addict | |
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| From Cookie | |
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| From Piaf: A Biography | |
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| From Toxique | |
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| From Gather Together In My Name | |
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| "Julia and the Bazooka" | |
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| Psychedelic Pioneers | |
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| Mazatec Magic Mushroom Ritual Chant | |
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| "I Ate the Sacred Mushrooms" | |
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| From "My Life with Gordon Wasson" | |
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| "Hashish Fudge" | |
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| From Enid Blyton: A Biography | |
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| From The Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955 | |
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| From This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley | |
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| "LSD: Journals of an Artist's Trip" | |
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| From Myself and I | |
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| "Psychedelics and Western Religious Experience" | |
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| Beats and Hippies | |
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| From Troia: Mexican Memoirs | |
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| From Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties | |
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| From "LSD-748" | |
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| From Memoirs of a Beatnik | |
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| "The Holidays at Millbrook--1966" | |
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| "Revolutionary Letter #39" [1969] | |
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| "Peyote Walk" | |
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| "Blues for Sister Sally" | |
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| "the pot bird story" | |
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| From "Marijuana Witchhunt" | |
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| From Talk | |
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| From Acid Temple Ball | |
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| From Trashing | |
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| "I Was Born on LSD" | |
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| "Peyote Equinox" | |
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| "The Mole People" | |
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| Underground Comics | |
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| Choosers and Abusers | |
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| From "Fast Speaking Woman" | |
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| "Billy Work Peyote" | |
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| "13 Tanka: In Praise of Smoking Dope" | |
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| From Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon | |
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| From Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians | |
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| From Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties | |
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| From The Butterfly Convention | |
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| "Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Ceremony" | |
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| From Journeys into the Bright World | |
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| On Writers and Stimulants | |
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| From Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal | |
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| From Postcards from the Edge | |
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| Shaman Women at the End of the Millennium | |
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| "On Hennepin Avenue" | |
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| "The Pattern That Connects" | |
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| "Nature, She's the Law" | |
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| "Visible Language" | |
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| "The Intensive" | |
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| "The Ecstatic Rite" | |
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| "Erich and Nina in Ecstasy" | |
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| "The Key" | |
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| "The Story of a Psychedelic Socialite and Ecstatic Dancer" | |
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| "The Brain vs. the Coochie" | |
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| "Women and Pot" | |
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| "The Best Time I've Ever Had on Acid" | |
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| "Balloons" | |
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| "We put this piece of paper on our tongues" | |
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| "Telephone Talk" | |
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| "56 Reasons To Go Downtown" | |
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| "The Leaves of the Shepherdess" | |
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| "Four Score and LSD" | |
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| "To the Source" | |