Buried at the bottom of the latest MAPS update is a wonderful little easter egg:
Dr. Karl Jansen’s Book ‘Ketamine: Dreams and Realities’ is now available in electronic format, for anyone to download, as part of MAPS’ policy to try to disseminate valuable information for free. This book is a gold mine of fascinating and vital information about the dissociative anesthetic ketamine, which is known to produce short-lived psychedelic experiences in sub-anesthetic doses, and may have important therapeutic value. This is by far the most comprehensive book on the subject. We anticipate that making the text available on the internet will provide access to this information to a larger number of people without reducing sales of the paper book edition
Probably the three most important recent books on research into the mysteries of psychedelics would be Rick Strassman’s DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Amazon US and UK), Benny Shanon’s ayahuasca classic The Antipodes of the Mind (Amazon US and UK), and Karl Jansen’s Ketamine: Dreams and Realities (Amazon US). Jansen looks at some of the subjective experiences of ‘Special K’ – including many similarities with the Near Death Experience – and also the dangers of the drug. If this subject area is of interest to you, make sure you take a look at it (and if you like it, support the author by buying a hard copy!).
