Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience Book

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction	1
	Images of Women and Drugs in Myth and History	4
	Greece and Crete
	The Pleiades
	Mycenaean Poppy Goddess
	Helen of Troy
	Circe
	Pythia: The Delphic Oracle
	Demeter and Persephone
	Sappho
	Egypt
	Hathor
	Isis
	Nefertiti
	Cleopatra
	Asia Minor and India
	Eve
	Apsarasas
	Scheherazade
	Houris
	Europe
	Alchemists
	Witches
	Nonwestern Cultures
	Seven Sisters of Sleep
	Mama Coca
	Harvesting Opium
	Kavakava Ceremony
	Iboga Initiation
	Visionary Vine
	Peyote Woman
	Sacred Plants of Mexico
	Opium and the Victorian Imagination	19
	From "The Maniac"
	"The Development of Genius"
	"A True Dream"
	From Valentine
	From At Home and Abroad
	"An Opium Fantasy"
	From Villette
	Untitled poem
	"Perilous Play"
	The Hookah, 1770-1885
	From Twenty Years at Hull-House
	From Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
	"An Opium Dream"
	The Pipe and the Needle, 1880-90
	"An Overdose of Hasheesh"
	From A Mad Tour, Or a Journey Undertaken in an Insane Moment Through Central Europe on Foot
	Patent Medicines
	Coca Wine and Cocaine, 1880-1900
	Expatriates and Vagabonds	70
	"The Oblivion Seekers"
	From Chicago May: Her Story
	From The House of Mirth
	From The Ashes of My Heart
	From Movers and Shakers and Edge of Taos Desert
	Hopheads, Snowbirds, and Vipers in Song
	"The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band"
	"Cocaine Lil"
	"If You're a Viper"
	White Lady
	"Lunar Baedeker"
	"Appalling Heart"
	"Cocaine (Snow Poem)"
	From The Passionate Years
	From No Bed of Roses: The Diary of a Lost Soul
	The War on Drugs
	From Sister of the Road
	From "The Big Smoke"
	Mainline Ladies	115
	From The Lonely Trip Back
	From Lady Sings the Blues
	From The Fantastic Lodge: The Autobiography of a Girl Drug Addict
	From Cookie
	From Piaf: A Biography
	From Toxique
	From Gather Together In My Name
	"Julia and the Bazooka"
	Psychedelic Pioneers	151
	Mazatec Magic Mushroom Ritual Chant
	"I Ate the Sacred Mushrooms"
	From "My Life with Gordon Wasson"
	"Hashish Fudge"
	From Enid Blyton: A Biography
	From The Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955
	From This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley
	"LSD: Journals of an Artist's Trip"
	From Myself and I
	"Psychedelics and Western Religious Experience"
	Beats and Hippies	183
	From Troia: Mexican Memoirs
	From Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties
	From "LSD-748"
	From Memoirs of a Beatnik
	"The Holidays at Millbrook--1966"
	"Revolutionary Letter #39" [1969]
	"Peyote Walk"
	"Blues for Sister Sally"
	"the pot bird story"
	From "Marijuana Witchhunt"
	From Talk
	From Acid Temple Ball
	From Trashing
	"I Was Born on LSD"
	"Peyote Equinox"
	"The Mole People"
	Underground Comics
	Choosers and Abusers	236
	From "Fast Speaking Woman"
	"Billy Work Peyote"
	"13 Tanka: In Praise of Smoking Dope"
	From Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon
	From Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians
	From Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties
	From The Butterfly Convention
	"Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Ceremony"
	From Journeys into the Bright World
	On Writers and Stimulants
	From Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal
	From Postcards from the Edge
	Shaman Women at the End of the Millennium	265
	"On Hennepin Avenue"
	"The Pattern That Connects"
	"Nature, She's the Law"
	"Visible Language"
	"The Intensive"
	"The Ecstatic Rite"
	"Erich and Nina in Ecstasy"
	"The Key"
	"The Story of a Psychedelic Socialite and Ecstatic Dancer"
	"The Brain vs. the Coochie"
	"Women and Pot"
	"The Best Time I've Ever Had on Acid"
	"Balloons"
	"We put this piece of paper on our tongues"
	"Telephone Talk"
	"56 Reasons To Go Downtown"
	"The Leaves of the Shepherdess"
	"Four Score and LSD"
	"To the Source"