Best Books on Psychedelics

A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day.

Microdosing Psychedelics: A Practical Guide to Upgrade Your Life by Paul Austin is a comprehensive guide to all the necessary information on the practice of microdosing ? including protocols, benefits, drawbacks, and sourcing.

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expos, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelistsThe Electric KoolAid Acid Test for a new generation.

This manual uses material from The Tibetan Book of the Dead for this preparation. The authors also make an important contribution to the interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. They show that it is concerned not with the dead, but with the living.

From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybincontaining mushrooms.

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr.

When National Geographic Adventure published an article in 2006 about the powerful antidepressant effects of ayahuasca, the piece received a phenomenal reader response.

The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 60s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research.

A pioneering and revolutionary book that lays the foundation for a radical new psychology, based on an expanded cartography of the human unconsciousness. Famous for his lifelong research into psychedelic drugs, Dr.

In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanishspeaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages.

A psychiatrist and psychedelic researcher explores the science of connectionwhy we need it, how we've lost it, and how we might find it again.We are suffering from an epidemic of disconnection that antidepressants and social media can't fix.

This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. We follow Dr.

Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into nonordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche.

In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort, however, quickly turned into a discredited enterprise involving recreational drug use. But what if a study of psychedelics was undertaken with trusted scientific rigor William A.

Conversations with Leo Zeff, pioneer in the underground psychedelic therapy movement.

Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the Amazon Basin. Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time & mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of…

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience.

Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity ?

Explores the potential of psychedelics as medicine and the intersections of politics, science, and psychedelics ? Explores the tumultuous history of psychedelic research, the efforts to restore psychedelic therapies, and the links between psychiatric drugs and mental illness ?

This is a novel about a small band of friends who are part of a world wide psychedelic community loosely calling itself "the Tribe." Like many other forwardthinking people today, they are struggling to make the transition from cubicleworking consumers into beings who are more…

A thoroughly revised edition of the muchsoughtafter early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.

More and more Ayahuasca has come to the attention of the Western media. Used by the shamans of Peru , the rituals and practices around this psychoactive plantbased brew date back 5070,000 years as evidenced by rock and cave paintings found the world over.