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Psychedelic Books?
#3094237 - 09/05/04 06:09 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I want to put together a small collection of the best books available on psychedelics. Only 2 or 3 to get me started. What would people recommend as the best books or authors? I'm thinking one Terence McKenna would be a good idea. Any suggestions would be great thanks
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094258 - 09/05/04 06:34 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman Ketamine: Dreams and Realites by Karl Jansen Drugs and the Brain by Solomon Snyder Tripping: A True Life Anthology of Psychedelic Adventures by various authors Trips: How Hallucingens Work In Your Brain by Cheryl Pallerin Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA,the Sixties,And Beyond by Lee and Shlain
Just to name a few....all highly recommended. Look at the library section in Erowid for a lot of good books (several of them available to read online).
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: monoamine]
#3094281 - 09/05/04 06:52 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'm looking at Plants Of The Gods at the moment. Would the Psychedelic Encyclopedia be a better alternative?
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094293 - 09/05/04 07:01 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think the Psychedelic Encyclopedia is a better alternative, but it's a little old... mmmm...'
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094303 - 09/05/04 07:14 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'm looking at Plants Of The Gods at the moment. Would the Psychedelic Encyclopedia be a better alternative?
Well,they're totally different. Psychedelics Encyclopedia,like its name implies,is a reference pertaining to many aspects of of psychedelics. Plants Of The Gods is more along the lines of spiritual and sociological opinions pertaining to the use of psychedelics.
I do like McKenna's writings,but I'm not really into his whole "hippy,tree hugger,earth mother" religous views. I'm more into the scientific and philosophical aspects instead of the spirtual/relgious,but that's just me.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: monoamine]
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I do like McKenna's writings,but I'm not really into his whole "hippy,tree hugger,earth mother" religous views. I'm more into the scientific and philosophical aspects instead of the spirtual/relgious,but that's just me.
Yes! Same for me. That's why I was a bit disappointed about TIHKAL. I hoped for something more scientific.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094490 - 09/05/04 09:42 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you're interested in cacti then "Sacred Cacti" by K Trout is the complete reference work.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094584 - 09/05/04 10:07 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for the suggestions. I can't quite decide whether I prefer the philosophical or spiritual investigation of entheogens so I guess I'd better figure that one out before buying books I'm not rich enough to buy a load of books just because, not would I be so careless if I were :P
What about classic texts like the Doors of Perception? Worth buying?
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094645 - 09/05/04 10:29 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've ordered the Psychedelics Encyclopaedia because I am really more scientific than spiritual even though sometimes I wish I weren't. Should get it later in the week. One down side is that its a shame it hasn't been updated since the 1980s
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3094766 - 09/05/04 11:29 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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there is always TiKaL and PiKaL
also the golden guide to halucenogenic plants, but good luck finding that as a hard copy
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: gdman]
#3094804 - 09/05/04 11:39 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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He has a new book now also...
-FF
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3095016 - 09/05/04 12:44 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I like the food of the gods. There's plenty of scientific stuff in it, but it's more history than chemistry. Over all, if you want to open up you mind to wild ideas, it's great. Breaking open the head is good too. It's more for the begener, but it will take you in the right dirrection. The tale of a guy inspired by mushrooms and acid to go on a deeper journey that takes him to the tribal use of psychedelics and eventually widely expands his worldview. Both of these are great in that they encourage spiritual doses of mushrooms and ayahuasca.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3098128 - 09/06/04 07:18 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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jonathan ott's _pharmacotheon_
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
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PSYCHEDELIC SHAMANISM by,JIM DEKORNE this is a great book with cultivation info,extraction teks and very little to do with shamanism.a must have!
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cheers, i've been looking around for psychedelic shamanism...its a hard bugger to find, at least in the uk :P
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
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i'm sure you can find a place on the net to buy it!
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even amazon don't seem to have it! i'll keep my eye out for it
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3100408 - 09/06/04 07:22 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Plants of the Gods
by Shultes, Hoffman and Ratsch.
If you're into the plant psychedelics of course. I find it to be the best book on mind altering plants. Some of the bset photos I've seen in a book on this topic.
Highly recommended.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3102602 - 09/07/04 09:50 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here are a few from my cd-rom, Teonan?catl: A bibliography of Entheogenic mushrooms co-authored by J. Gartz..
Also ERonin Publishers is discontiuing the "Psychedelic Encyclopedia" by Perter stafford. It is being republished as six individual books. The first two, "Psychedelics" and "Magic Mushrooms" are already on the market and udated from the original "Psychedelic Encyclopedia."
The latter book by Stafford has a batik cover from my design made in Bali and also about 20 of my images in the book of shrooms and me.
mj
Here is a list of some books on the shroom related side of the discussion. Includes the book "One River" by Wade Davis,
Wade Davis is also the author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow," A book he wrote of which a bad movie by WEs Craven was made, a movie Wade Davis disassociated himself from.
One River is the story of Richard Evans Schultes' 13 years in the Columbian Amazonian jungle where he identified more than 20,000 plants new to science including over 80 hallucinogenic plants. chewed coca leaves for 8 years to combat malaria and has a 2,000,000 acre land track in the Amazon named in his honore. He most assuredly was the greatest explorer since Richard Spruce and maybe even greater than Stanley and Livingston.
Here is a list of similar books.
While LaBarre's Peyote Cult is the focal point for all Indians who use it in conjunction with ceremonial setups for new charters of the cult, La Barre and Schultes first ate peyote in 1930s while students at harvard who took a class on botany and the sudy of medical plants was one of the topics in his botany class in pre-med school and that trip to the native American Church peyuote ceremony in Oklahoma int he early 1930s is what eventually led Schultes to Mexico in the mid 1960s where he abnd Blas Pablo Reko collected the first known specimens of the magic m shrooms. IT then led, througuh the US aermy's war office to the Amazon to study rubber for the army's war effort, arrow poisons to be use in heart medications and his following plant discoveries also came about becasue of his Amazon jungle adventure. There is also a good bio of Schulties in a past issue of the New Yorker magazine, a rather lengthy bio ver4y well written.
Kahn, E. J. 1992. (Mag.) Profiles: Jungle Botanist. New Yorker:35-58. June 1. This biography traces the footsteps of the renown ethnobotanist Dr. Richard Evans Schultes from Harvard to his exploration of the Colombian Amazon and then back to Harvard. An amazing adventure in life. See Davis for a complete biography of Richard Evans Schultes and his adventures in the Amazon.
R. E. also has a cockroach named in his honor and many more books and dozens of articles in the Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets. and other journals.
However Weston LaBarre also wrote the "The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion."
This is one of the best books on the history of the hallucinogens.
I have also posted some of LaBarres papers at http://www.thenook.org in the journals forums section under my forum called Tales of the Shroom.
In the meantime, Here is a great list of Mushroom related literature covering the book field for magic shroom histories, Minus the cultivation books on magic shrooms From Teonanacatl: A Bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi co-authored by Jochen Gartz of the University fo Leipzig, Germany..
Allen, J. W. 1997. Magic Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks, Seattle, Washington. 12 color photos.
Allen, J. W. 1998. Magic Mushrooms of the Hawaiian Islands. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington. Color Photos.
Allen, J. W. 1997. Mar?a Sabina: Saint Mother of the Mushrooms. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington. Out of print.
Allen, J. W. 1997. Teonan?catl: Ancient and Shamanic Mushroom Names of Mesoamerica and Other Regions of the World. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington. Out of Print.
Allen, J. W. 1999. Magic Mushrooms of Australia and New Zealand. www.erowid.org/library/books_online/magic_mushrooms_aunz.shtml. Copyright 1999 by John W. Allen and Erowid. (Online Hard Copy at http://www.erowid.org)
Allen, J. W. 2000 [1979-1981]. Safe-Pik Mushroom Identification Guide. Publishers: Frank and Cheeri Rinaldo. Reprinted 2000 by John W. Allen and Erowid. Introduction by Andrew Weil. 80 Colored photographs. (Online hard copy at http://www.erowid.org).
Allen, J. W. 2000. Mushroom Pioneers: R. Gordon Wasson, Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Timothy Francis Leary and Others. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington. Over 90 Photographs. 188 pages CD-ROM).
Allen, J. W. and James Arthur. 2004. In: (Editor, Ralph Metzner's) Teonan?catl: Sacred Mushrooms of Visions. Four Trees Press, Green Earth Foundations, California.
Allen, J. W. and J. Gartz. 1997. Magic Mushrooms in Some Third World Countries. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington.
Allen, J. W. and J. Gartz. 2000. Psilocybian Mushroom Cultivation: A Brief History Regarding the Contemporary Cultivation, Marketing and Use of Psilocybian Fungi. Psilly Publications and RaverBooks. Seattle, Washington. With 1 photographs. Winter-Spring year 2000-2001. 188 photos. 200 pages. CD-ROM.
Allen, J. W. and J. Gartz. 2000. Teonanac?tl: A Bibliography of Entheogenic Mushrooms. Forward by Jonathan Ott. 300 pages, 2400 references, 1700 annotations, and more than 8600 cross-references. 700 large color photographs with Thumbnails. CD-ROM.
Enos, L. 1973. A Key to the North American Psilocybe Mushroom. Youniverse Press. Lemon Grove California.
Estrada, A. 1976. Maria Sabina: Her Life, Her Chants. An Autobiography. Ross-Erikson. California.
Friedman, S. A. 1987. Celebrating the Wild Mushroom. Dodd, Mead and Co. New York.
Furst, P. T. 1986. Psychedelic Fungi. Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Chelsea House Publishing. New York.
Gartz, J. 1997-98. Magic Mushrooms Around the World: A Scientific Journey Across Cultures and Time. The case for Challenging Research and Value Systems. Translated from the German language masterpiece "Narremschwammer" by C. Taake.
Guzm?n, G., Allen, J. W. and J. Gartz. 2000. A Worldwide Geographical Distribution of the Neurotropic Fungi, An Analysis and Discussion. And. Civ. Musei. Di, Rovereto, Italy. (In press).
Hofmann, A. 1980. LSD My Problem Child. McGraw-Hill. New York.
Leary, T. 1968 High Priest. University Press. World. New York.
Leary, T. 1983. Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era. J. P. Tarcher Inc. Los Angeles.
Lincoff, G. and D. H. Mitchell (Eds.). 1980. Toxic and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York.
McKenna, T. 1993. Food of the Gods: The Search for The Original Tree of Life. Bantam Books. New York.
Menser, G. 1977 [1991]. Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide. And/or Press. Berkeley, California. Re-issued as Magikal Mushroom Handbook. Homestead Book Co. Seattle, Washington.
Ott, J. 1976 [1979]. Hallucinogenic Plants of North America. Wingbow press. Berkeley, California.
Ott, J. 1993. Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History. (see pp273-319. Natural Products Co. Kennewick, Washington.
Ott, J. and J. Bigwood (Eds.). 1978. Teonanacatl: Hallucinogenic Mushrooms of North America. Madrona Press. Seattle, Washington.
Reidlinger, T. J. (ed.). 1990. The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson. Dioscorides Press. Portland, Oregon. A few dozen chapters on the life and memory of R. Gordon Wasson by those who knew him.
Rumack, B. and E. Saltzman (Eds.). 1978. Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment. CRC Press. West Palm Beach, Florida.
Sanford, J. 1966. In Search of the Magic Mushroom. Clarkson N. Porter. New York.
Schultes, R. E. 1978. Hallucinogenic Plants. A Golden Garden Guide. Golden Press. New York.
Schultes, R. E. and A. Hofmann. Plants of the Gods. McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York.
Stafford, P. 1992. Psychedelic Encyclopedia. J. P. Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles.
Stafford,Peter. 2003. Magic Mushrooms. Ronin Publishing. Berkeley, California.
Stamets, P. 1978. Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies. Homestead Book Co. Seattle, Washington.
Stamets, P. 1996. A Field Guide to Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Ten Speed Press. Berkeley, California.
Wasson, R. G. May 13, 1957. Life magazine. Seeking the Magic Mushroom or Mushrooms that ause strange visions.
Wasson, R. G. 1980. The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York.
Weil, A. 1972. The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness. Houghton Mifflin. Boston, Ma.
Weil, A. 1980. Marriage of the Sun and Moon. Houghton Mifflin. Boston, Ma.
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Dick Schultes also wrote, The healing Forest, Where the Gods Reign and Vine of the Soul.
He was also the worlds leading expert in orchides.
mj
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: mjshroomer]
#3102748 - 09/07/04 10:32 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow! thanks mj 
thats a pretty big bibliography for me to delve in to. i got the Psychedelics Encyclopedia in the post today through Amazon UK and it seems amazing so far.
i think a book on the amazon would be great. the Shultzes one probably.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3102796 - 09/07/04 10:43 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Of course, those are only the ones on Shrooms. Not sure if I included Pharmacotheon. Buit that too is a great Book.
mj
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: mjshroomer]
#3102804 - 09/07/04 10:45 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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at the moment i've only done shrooms and i plan to have a lot more shroom trips under my belt before i try cacti or ayahuasca...and i will try them 
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3102970 - 09/07/04 11:31 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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here are some from my library that haven't been mentioned (i think)!
Grinspoon & Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered. The Lindesmith Centre, 1998.
a reprint of the 1979 edition, covers definition, action and societal/medical consequences of psychedelic drugs. lots of thought provoking discussion on the use and abuse of entheogens and other psycho active substances. all in all a great book and a progressive stance is taken by the authors.
Schultes & Hofmann, Plants of the Gods. The Healing Arts Press, 1992.
a general overview of entheogens and their use in history. nice full colour photos of plants and fungi, and useful chart of enthoegens and their actions on human perception. if this has been already listed, it deserves another mention. very useful for the study of entheogen use.
Heinrich, Clark; Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy. Park Street Press, 2002.
despite the title this book investigates the theory that the a. muscuria mushroom was the main sacrement of ancient judaeism and early christianity. rather good, but more for those studying religion and bible text than entheogens. shades of The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by (can't remember). Nice glossy photos and interesting side bars. some fascinating ideas about how christ is actually a metaphor for the fly argaric!
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cheers, i was initially considering plants of teh gods. i might buy it if i get a hunk of money anytime soon... anything's possible!
as for the last book you listed, if you like that then you should watch this 2 hour documentary... assuming you have real player (i kno the media sucks but its a 2 hour lecture)
http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/nontesters/pharmacratic/index.html
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3103082 - 09/07/04 12:10 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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definitely get this book if you can. it is a great overview of entheogen use and history. i checked out the web documentary and it is rather interesting. one of my main areas of study at university was comparative mythology, and since i had a rather cool patron for my MA i was able to study the religious use of psychedelics as a side line. you may want to check out some books on shamanism as well. i can find a list of those that mention the use of psychoactive substances (although this list will contain books with small sections or articles rather than being completely devoted to the subject at hand). also, just found another:
Merkur, Dan. The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible. Park Street Press, 2000.
this investigates the idea that ergot use was prevalent in the formation of the mystery religions of the middle east, in particular judaeism. not a bad book, but somewhat flakey when you push the argument too far. worth the read though.
inner traditions - bear & company (who support healing arts press) have a rather good selection of books on the subject of entheogens. you can write for a catalogue of their books at:
Inner Traditions - Bear & Company P.O. Box 388 Rochester, VT 05767-0388 USA
tke
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Thanks again. I'm doing philosophy and history at university at the moment and I'm thinking about doing my third year dissertation on psychedelics.
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: rdnp2035]
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Breaking Open the Head? I am not familiar with that one. Author? Publisher? Sites where I might be able to find?
tke
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3112886 - 09/09/04 10:03 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are most welcome. good luck with the dissertation if you can get away with such a thing. if i come across any more books, i'll let you know. happy reading.
tke
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"Breaking Open the Head? I am not familiar with that one. Author? Publisher? Sites where I might be able to find?"
Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
www.breakingopenthehead.com
I found my copy at a local Barnes and Noble, shouldn't be hard to find at all.
I highly recommend it.
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thanks for the link mckenna very useful
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#3125102 - 09/12/04 03:21 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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mckenna's "food of the gods" is a very good book that im reading at the moment, i highly recomend it
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
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there are a number of books of interest to the psychedelic enthusiast reviewed at places like www.erowid.org & www.lycaeum.org & www.entheogen.com & www.spiritplants.com & www.ayahuasca.com (& many of these websites have nice links, & will also have suggested reading lists etc... also, several of these nice sites also have had book suggestion threads as well, poke around here & there for lotsa good titles... there have been several pervious threads here at the shroomery, with some excellent suggestions as well... some websites have full texts available, or excerpts --- places like www.psychedelic-library.org & www.csp.org
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another really good (essential?) read ---> alan watts _the joyous cosmology_ (the texts is available online at a couple sites, but the book has the amazing b&w photos that just like illuminate the flow of the text, hehheh - i mean some very nice pics, whew)...
anyways, check out other threads here & some of theose other sites, and you will have enough books to fill a library (& empty a pocketbook)
oftentimes, public libraries (& uni libraries) will have some useful books to borrow... please treat borrowed books gently & get them back on time... (cleveland library doesn't have any copies available to loan anymore of dr hoffman's _lsd: my problem child_ (tho' i think they may have his _insight, outlook_ (tr. by j. ott) ...)
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#26696650 - 05/26/20 10:05 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thank You!
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#26696699 - 05/26/20 10:29 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Zoso_UK said: What about classic texts like the Doors of Perception? Worth buying?
DoP is an essential read
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Terrence recommended Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung to his brother Dennis before he tripped for the first time. Dennis recalled later that he hadn't read it until after a few trips at which point he understood why Terrence had told him to read it.
I haven't yet finished it and it isn't technically about psychedelics but i recommend it as the insight into dreams and symbolism is invaluable to the psychedelic experience.
Otherwise, I'd recommend
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys by James Fadiman.
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I've got to second the James Fadiman suggestion. Food of the Gods is fundamental as mentioned over and over. Check out "The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments".
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Re: Psychedelic Books? [Re: Zoso_UK]
#28085637 - 12/06/22 04:38 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Old one but Aldous Huxley's Doors of perception. Very good read form a very good author. Also Timothy Leary's psychedelic experience is interesting. Both a little old, but classics in they're own right.
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