The editors wish to thank the following publishers, authors, and translators for their kind permission to quote from their works:

Messrs Sidgwick & Jackson for A. L. Basham's 'The Wonder that was India' from The Wonder that was India, 1961.

Pascal Brotteaux for 'The Ancient Greeks' from Hachich, Herbe de Folie et de Reve, Editions Vega, 1934.

Messrs Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd for Mircea Eliade's 'Ancient Scythia and Iran' from Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1964, 'Henry Miller's Utopian Speculations' from Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death, 1958, 'The Tale of Two Hashish Eaters' from The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated from the literal translation of Dr J. C. Mardrus and collated by E. Powys Mathers, 1937, 'Flying Saucers: A Modem Myth' from C. G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth, translated by R. F. C. Hull, 1959.

Ciba Symposia for W. Reininger's 'Remnants from Prehistoric Times', 'Congo Cult' and 'Two Celebrated Hashish Eaters', Victor Robinson's 'Concerning Cannabis Indica', all of which appeared in Vol. 8, Nos. 5/6, 1946.

Sara Benetowa for 'Tracing One Word through Different Languages' from Le Chanvre dans les Croyances et les Coutumes Populaires, Warsaw Institute of Anthropological Sciences, 1936.

Melvin Clay for 'Fragments from a Search'.

iMessrs MacMillan & Co Ltd for 'The Assassins' from Philip K. Hitti's History of the Arabs, 1937.

Taner Baybars for his version of 'The Hodja' from Stories of the Hodja, 14th century.

Penguin Books for 'The Herb Pantagruelion' from J. M. Cohen's translation of The Histories of Gargantua and Panta-gruel by Francois Rabelais, 1955, and 'Yoga' from Ernest Wood's Yoga, 1959 Houghton Mifflin Co for 'Diary Notes' from The Diaries of George Washington,

Propylaen Verlag for 'Nietzsche's Letter to Peter Gast' from Friedrich W~rzbach's Nietzsche, Sein Leben in Selbstzeugnissen, Briefen und Berichten, 1942.

University of Nebraska Press for 'Black Elk Speaks of his Great Vision' from John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, 1932.

Suhrkamp Verlag for 'Steppenwolf from Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, 1927.

Messrs William Heinemann Ltd for 'Diego Rivera' from Errol Flynn's My Wicked, Wicked Ways, 1961.

Mrs. Laura Huxley for the late Aldous Huxley's 'Culture and the Individual'. Messrs Chatto & Windus Ltd for 'Island' from Aldous Huxley's Island, 1962.

The Bodley Head Ltd for 'Light through Darkness' from their translation of Henri Michaux's Conncdssance par les Gouffres by Haakon Chevalier, 1961.

Messrs Calder & Boyars Ltd for 'Marijuana and Sex' from Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book, 1961.

Paul Bowles for 'Kif—Prologue and Compendium of Terms' and 'He of the Assembly' from A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, City Lights, 1962.

Ira Cohen for Mohammed Ben Abdullah Yussufi's 'The Three Alis'.

Alien Ginsberg for 'Night at the Burning Ghat' from Journals, Krittivas, 1962. Simon Vinkenoog for 'High Season' from Hoogseizoen, De Bezige Bij, 1962;

Oxford University Press for an extract from Gimlette & Thomson's Dictionary of Malayan Medicine, 1939.

Messrs E. S. Livingstone Ltd for J. M. Watt's and M. G. Breyer- Bran dwijk's Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa, 1962.

Baillere (Paris) for Pie & Bonnamour's 'Medicaments Vegetaux' from Bibliotheque de Therapeutique, 1923.

Dr Boericke for Materia Medico, 1928.

Roger Adams for 'Marijuana', Harvey Lecture Series, 1942.

Louis S. Gold-man & Alfred Gilman for The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 1955.

Robert S. De Ropp for Drugs and the Mind, St Martin's Press, I957:l R- Polderman for The Medical Use of Cannabis Sativa;

Pantheon Books Inc. for Esther Harding's 'The Psychological Significance of the Soma Ritual' from Women's Mysteries Ancient and Modern.

University of Oklahoma Press for Stanley Vestal's 'Sitting Bull's Vision of Victory' from Sitting Bull, 1932.

S. H. Groff for 'The Free Fall and its Relation to the High Feeling' and 'Marijuana and the "0" Effect'.

William H. McGlothlin for 'Cannabis Intoxication and its Similarity to Peyote and LSD' from Hallucinogenic Drugs: A Perspective with Special Reference to Peyote and Cannabis, 1964;

Phillip S. Epstein for 'A Psychiatrist Looks at Jack and the Beanstalk', 1966. R. D. Laing & A. Esterson for 'Two Letters', 1964;

R. C. Zaehner for Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, 1957.

Alan Watts for 'A Psychedelic Experience: Fact or Fantasy', 1964.

Sir Julian Huxley for 'Psychometabolism' from The Psychedelic Reader, University Books, 1965.

Porter Sargent Inc. for Oliver L. Reiser's The Integration of Human Knowledge, 1958, and Mr. Reiser for 'The Problem of Consciousness' which is taken from his forthcoming The Universe: its Theory.

Royal Van Gorcum for 'Ecstasy' from Julius de Boer's A System of Characterology, 1965.

William Burroughs for 'Cannabis and Opiates' from Points of Distinction between Sedative and Consciousness-expanding Drugs, Evergreen Review, December 1964.

The Harvard Review for Timothy Leary's and Richard Alpert's 'The Politics of Consciousness Expansion', Summer 1963.

Messrs W. H. Alien Ltd for Lawrence Lipton's The Holy Barbarians, 1960; Randolfe Wicker for extracts from The Wicker Report, Lemar, 1965.

The Moderator for Richard Goldstein's 'The College Scene in the USA', October 1965. Michael Pickering for 'Memoirs of a Kif Smoker', June 1964.

The Colorado Daily News for 'The Law in Colorado', April 2ist, 1964.

Indiana University Press for Edwin M. Schur's 'The Black Market in America' from Narcotic Addiction in Britain and America.

Henry Smith Williams for 'Abuse of American Law', 1938.

Judge Murtagh for 'Two Statements'.

New York Daily News for 'The Case of Timothy Leary', March nth, 1966. Akin Davies for 'Nigeria Whispers'.

Neal Phillips for 'Notes from Tar-taros'.

Stephen Abrams for 'The Oxford Scene'.

The Sunday Times (London) for 'Marijuana and Alcohol' by Anthony Storr.

Other Sources:

'Sanskrit Sources' is taken from The Materia Medico. of the Hindus by Uday Chand Dutt and George King, published by Thacker, Spink & Co, 1877.

'American Indians in 1626' from Jean Leander's Traite du Tabac ou Panacee Universelle, 1626.

'Concerning Hashish' from Charles Baudelaire's Du Vin et du Hashish, 1851;

Gerard de Nerval's 'Supernaturalist' is quoted in Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifesto.

'Morning of Drunkenness' appeared as 'Matinee d'lvresse' in Rimbaud's Illuminations, and 'Vowels' is translated from 'Voyelles', 1886.

E. Whineray's 'The Herb Dangerous' appeared in The Herb Dangerous: A Pharmaceutical Study of Cannabis Sativa, The Equinox, 1909.

E. J. Waring's Pharmocopoeia of India, 1868, was published by The India Office, London.

'Varieties of Consciousness' is taken from William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, Longmans, Green & Co, 1916.