Thomas B. Roberts (Ph.D. Stanford) investigates psychedelic mindbody states for the leads they provide for learning, cognition, intelligence, creativity, mental health, and abilities that reside in them: in Psychedelic Horizons: Snow White, Immune System, Multistate Mind, and Enlarging Education he presents Multistate Mind Theory. He specializes in psychedelics' entheogenic (spiritual) uses: as in Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion and the online archive Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy. He co-edited Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments. He has taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies at Northern Illinois Univesity since 1981; this is the world's first catalog-listed psychedelics course at a university. He has lectured on psychedelics internationally, published many articles, chapters, and book reviews. He originated the celebration Bicycle Day.

Course Syllabi:

• Foundations of Psychedelic Studies
• Entheogens - Sacramentals or Sacrilege?

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Major Publications:

• (2009 forthcoming). Entheogenic Contributions to Self-Transcendence, Healing, Pastoral Counseling, and Evangelism. In Vol. 3 of Ellens, Harold (Ed.). The Healing Power of Spirituality and Religion. Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood.
• (2008). Multistate and Entheogenic Contributions to the Study of Miracles and Experimental Religious Studies. Chapter 3, Vol. 3, in Ellens, Harold (Ed.). Miracles: God, Psychology, and Science in the Paranormal. Westport: CT: Praeger/Greenwood.
• Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
• Psychedelic Horizons: Snow White, Immune System, Multistate Mind, Enlarging Learning
• Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion
• Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy
• (2006) Chemical Input, Religious Output — Entheogens: A Pharmatheology Sampler. Chapter in Partick McNamara (Editor) The Psychology of Religion, Vol. III of the Religion and Brain Series. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.
• (2005) From Armchair Theology to Experimental Science: Entheogenic Keys to the Doors of Experimentation. Anthropology of Consciousness, 16(1), 51-55.
• (2004) The New Gutenberg Reformation : From Ritual to Text to Primary Religious Experience. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Oct 22-24, Kansas City Missouri.
• (2003) Roberts, T.B. A New Relationship with our Minds - Multistate Mind, Thresholds in Education, 29(3), 36-40
• Roberts, T. B. (2000). Academic and religious freedom in the study of the mind. In R. Forte (Ed.), Entheogens and the future of religion. San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices.
• Roberts, T.B. (1999). Do enthogen-induced mystical experiences boost the immune system? Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, 15(2), 139-147.
• Roberts, T. B. (1994). Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Grofian interpretation. In T. Little (Ed.), Psychedelics. New York: Barricade Books.