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4. In classical Greek and neo-Platonic philosophy, the Logos is the cosmic reason giving order, purpose, and intelligence to the world. 5. Carlos Castaneda performed anthropology fieldwork in the Mexican desert, spending years with an Indian shaman, Don Juan Matus. Many of the scenes Castaneda describes begin as simple encounters with Don Juan and his friends, in settings similar to that which Sean described. See, for example, Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings ofDon Juan: A Yaqui Way ofKnowledge (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1998). Chapter 13 1. Z. Boszormenyi and Stephen I. Sz£ra, "Dimethyltryptamine Experiments with Psychotics," Journal ofMental Science 104 (1958): 445-53. 3. Gumby is a character from an American children's television show from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Gumby was composed of a claylike substance molded over metal wire. This made it possible to bend him into all sorts of shapes, something kids loved doing with their own twelve-inch-tall Gumby. Gumby's trusty sidekick was Pokey the horse. The animators bent and moved Gumby's and Pokey's clay bodies, then filmed them using time-lapse photography, thus giving the impression of movement. 1. John E. Mack, Abduction (New York: Ballantine, 1994) and Passport to the Cosmos (New York: Crown, 1999). Chapter 15 1. Raymond A. Moody, Life After Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1988); and Kenneth Ring, Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1980). 3. Rinpoche Sogyal, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). This is a modern rendition of The Tibetan Book ofthe Dead. 4. Dannion Brinkley, Saved by the Light (New York: Harper, 1995); and Betty J. Eade, Em- braced by the Light (New York: Bantam, 1994). 5. Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 1972); and Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990). 1. Robert Master and Jean Houston, The Varieties ofthe Psychedelic Experience (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2000); William James, The Varieties ofReligious Experience (New York: Macmillan, 1997); and Robert Forte, ed., Entheogens and the Future of Religion (San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997). NOTES + 355 2. Turner and Merlis (1959). Chapter 14 2. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Book ofthe Dead (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974). Chapter 16