BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Covering topics including the science and history of psychedelics, micro-dosing, mystical and religious experiences, personal accounts of psychedelics experiences and plant medicines.
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.
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The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys
James Fadiman, Ph.D.
Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide.
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Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
Dr. Richard Louis Miller
Explores the potential of psychedelics as medicine and the intersections of politics, science, and psychedelics
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna
For the first time in paperback, the counterculture manifesto on mind-altering drugs & hallucinogens. Illustrated.
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.
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The Science of Microdosing Psychedelics
Torsten Passie
At a time when media coverage frequently presents microdosing as a potential panacea, this carefully researched and scientifically presented work provides an objective and clear perspective, covering key areas such as tolerance, toxicity, and placebo.
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Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences
William A. Richards
Sacred Knowledge enriches humanities and scientific scholarship, expanding work in philosophy, anthropology, theology, and religious studies, as well as in mental health, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology.
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The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Alan W. Watts
Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline & psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.
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The Museum Dose: 12 Experiments in Pharmacologically Mediated Aesthetics
Daniel Tumbleweed
In this collection of true tales, akin to prose poems, a mild-mannered bookkeeper recounts a series of experiments he undertook over a two-year period that combined his aesthetic and consciousness-modulation interests.
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The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline.
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The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms
K. Mandrake
The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible details every step of the complex mushroom cultivation process, making it hands down the largest and most comprehensive book ever written on the subject.
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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine
Joseph Tafur
Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why.
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Psychedelic Psychotherapy: A User Friendly Guide to Psychedelic Drug-Assisted Psychotherapy
R. Coleman
Psychedelic Psychotherapy is a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource for therapists and laypeople who need practical guidelines for psychedelic drug-assisted psychotherapy.