 Certain representative works and artists are selected for detailed analysis, such as William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", William Blake, Eden Ahbez, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Mel Lyman Family, Terence McKenna, Grateful Dead, Philip K Dick, Father Yod & The Source Family, and several more.Broader cultural developments given close scrutiny include the ayahuasca religions of Amazonia, the rich hallucinogenic culture of the Aztec, the 1960s Haight-Ashbury scene, the 1970s interest in homegrowing psilocybin mushrooms, the Electronic Dance Music scenes of acid house, Goa PsyTrance and Psybient, and several more.A psychedelic philosophy drawn from classic Platonism and the modern phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty is presented as a foundation for a modern psychedelic lifestyle.