This first American psychedelic movement began with an anonymous article published in 1874 in The Atlantic Monthly. The psychedelia of the 1960s was foreshadowed by events in the waning years of the nineteenth century. And for the first time he feels that he is understanding religious mysticism. He is William James, the American psychologist and philosopher. Under one hand is a piece of paper, on which he has written, "That sounds like nonsense but it is pure on sense!" He giggles a little more. Pushed to one side is an apparatus out of a junior-high science experiment: a beaker containing some ammonium nitrate, a few inches of tubing, a cloth bag.
One imagines him slumped over his desk, giggling helplessly. HE has short hair and a long brown beard.
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