Review of three new psychedelic books by Greenfield, Pinchbeck, and Erik Davis

Three books have appeared, heralding a quiet resurgence in certain circles of the use of hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual or visionary purposes. Designed to redirect us from the environmental, religious and military catastrophe we are marching towards, they examine who we are as a spiritual nation, where we came from in terms of ingesting psychedelics, and where we are going as we look to the methods and teachings of indigenous cultures.