The Pacific Northwest is green to the extreme. Yet a day trip can go from pristine wilderness to downtown Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver. How are these commercial and cultural hot spots keeping nature and growth in balance - and what's coming next? Trace the path from forests and fish to bikes and brews as Planning the Pacific Northwest continues the APA Planners Press series on how planning shapes major American cities.

The Pacific Northwest is green to the extreme. Yet a day trip can go from pristine wilderness to downtown Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver. How are these commercial and cultural hot spots keeping nature and growth in balance - and what's coming next? Trace the path from forests and fish to bikes and brews as Planning the Pacific Northwest continues the APA Planners Press series on how planning shapes major American cities.

In the summer of 1975, near downtown Richmond, Virginia, Norman Baker's perception of reality became permanently altered. He never expected to ingest thousands of times the amount of one hit of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) during a drug bust, at the climax of his career as a narcotics cop. Before the accident, Norman was the description of an ideal citizen. He is going on two years now as a fulltime patient at The Richmond Institute of Mental Health where he spends his days subjected to randomly triggered psychedelic hallucinations. Throughout Axiom of Mind, you will experience just a dose of Norman Backer's reality.