The Center of the Universe

This book is written from a deep need to understand the actual psychedelic experience. The author is, in my opinion, a true "general scientist" as defined by Dr. John Lilly in The Human BioComputer. In terms of this definition (given on page xvi of the preface to the Second Edition), William Moxley "is a person trained in the scientific method and trained in watching his own mind operate and correcting his scientific as well as philosophical and pragmatic errors. He is a scientist who is willing to study more than just one narrow speciality in an attempt to grasp as much knowledge as he can under the circumstances from other fields than his own. He has a grasp of symbolic logic . . . which he can apply to problems other than his own speciality."

This book opened avenues in my thinking for which I am grateful and I recommend it to all who ponder the nature of thought and thinking in general and what happens to these processes when psychedelics are present in particular.