Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.

How both the drugs and the music have evolved together.

How a musical subculture evolved alongside a technological subculture:

Rave's rise mirrors the Web's in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery. Both were future-forward "free spaces" with special appeal to geeks and wonks.

Sasha Shulgin, a former DOW chemist who now lives a quiet life as a pensioner outside the Bay Area, is responsible for the discovery of the majority of psychedelic compounds currently known.