Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches: LSD, Cannabis, and Spiritual Sacraments in Underground America

A comprehensive tour of North American spiritual groups that use psychoactive drugs in the search for higher consciousness

• Explores prominent psychedelic churches and sects in depth, including the Native American Church and their peyote rituals, the cannabis-sex temple known as the Psychedelic Venus Church, and the Church of Naturalism, an LSD-therapy cult that came to a murderous end

• Presents an encyclopedic survey of dozens of minor organizations—many of which have never before been doc...