Discusses the use of psychedelic drugs and their ramifications for exploration of the mind, with emphasis on the connection of ESP to psychedelics and our transpersonal nature.
Dr. Robert Cavanna was an Italian biochemist with a Ph.D. from the University of Rome who was interested in general extrasensory perception. He engaged in research on the relationship between states of consciousness, as affected by psychopharmaceuticals, with the occurrence of psi phenomena in volunteers, both "normal" and "sensitive" Dr. Emilio Servadio, psychoanalyst, prolific author, cofounder of the Italian Society for Parapsychology, was interested in telepathy and ESP from the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic points of view. Long-time president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Center of Rome, he was particularly interested in telepathy and ESP, and investigated mediums and miraculous healers.