Houston, Jean

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Masters and Jean Houston (1966). Having guided and observed 206 subjects through a large number of LSD and peyote sessions, Masters and Houston proposed the existence of four levels of mental functioning in the psychedelic state sensory, recollective-analytic, symbolic, and integral. 

Jean Houston is a director of the Foundation for Mind Research in New York City and is a co-author of The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience and Psychedelic Art. 

Mouton and Company, The Hague/Paris Gary Menser, Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide Richard Evans Schultes, Professor of Natural Sciences Director Botanical Museum, Flarvard University, Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. 

Michael Hollingshead, one of the main distributors of perhaps the most significant gram of LSD — labelled "H-00047" — that passed eventually into the systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richard, Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Huston Smith, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is some possibility," he once commented, "that my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."... 

Many observers feel that the rhythmic aspect of this experience marks a progression into deeper "stages. Robert Masters and Jean Houston describe four stages of deepening awareness in their The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. 

With his part of gram "H-00047, Beresford, with Jean Houston and Michael Corner, opened an LSD foundation in Manhattan in 1962, the Agora Scientific Trust. The impressive, valuable work carried out there is... 

The paragraph on the left is taken from The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience by Robert Masters and Jean Houston the one on the right is part of the definition of LSD-25 in Robert R. Lingeman s revised and updated edition of Drugs From A to Z. These summaries, distilled from many descriptions of the drug s mental effects, are comprehensive and yet incomplete in conveying the quality of the LSD experience. 

Mind Games. The Guide to Inner Space by Robert Masters and Jean Houston (New York- Viking, 1972) is a manual of exercises in guided fantasy and trance states. The authors have written extensively about psychedelic experiences and are well qualified to discuss altered states of consciousness. 

The authors wish to express their gratitude to the many collaborators whose work has been alluded to in this presentation. A special thanks is offered to Prof. Randolph Thummel of the University of Houston and Prof. Simon Bott from North Texas State University for their collaboration in the [Ru(binap-2)3](PF5) work. Appreciation is also expressed to Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn for his involvement in the cryptatium work. Finally, the authors wish to thank the National Science Foundation (grants DMR-9119986 and CHE-9313018) and the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF 27827-AC1) for generous financial support of this work. 

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