15 best-selling nonfiction books like Tihkal: The Continuation by Alexander Shulgin

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Tihkal: The Continuation

By: Alexander Shulgin

4.41

Format: 804 pages, Paperback

A continuation of the classic PIHKAL, TIHKAL focuses on the family of psychoactive drugs in the try…

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Cover of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck

1. The Red Book: Liber Novus

By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

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2. The Perennial Philosophy

By: Aldous Huxley

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reali… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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3. Island

By: Aldous Huxley

3.85

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal … read more

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  • philosophy
"I fell,"

-Aldous Huxley, Island

"I’m not denying their kindness,"

-Aldous Huxley, Island

"A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms."

-Aldous Huxley, Island

"La teología de un pueblo refleja el estado de las nalgas de sus niños."

-Aldous Huxley, Island

Cover of Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffé, Joseph L. Henderson, John    Freeman

4. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • reference
  • science
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

Cover of Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies by Slawek Wojtowicz, Rick Strassman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Rick Strassman MD

5. Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies

By: Slawek Wojtowicz , Rick Strassman , Luis Eduardo Luna , Rick Strassman MD

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

An investigation into experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science

6. LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

By: Albert Hofmann

3.72

Format: 374 pages,

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  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
Cover of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby

7. The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

By: Jeremy Narby

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribunesaid might herald "a Copernican… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science

8. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

3.93

Format: None pages,

A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring explor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Out of Your Mind

By: Alan W. Watts

3.75

Format: None pages, Audio CD

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology

10. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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11. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more

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12. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

By: Michael Newton

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This remarkable book uncovers--for the first time--the mystery of life in the spirit world after de… read more

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13. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

By: Carlos Castaneda

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more

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14. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

By: Terence McKenna

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

s/t: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human Evolution For the first time in paperback, the crit… read more

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15. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more

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16. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

By: Richard Evans Schultes , Albert Hofmann , None

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientif… read more

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17. DMT: The Spirit Molecule

By: Rick Strassman

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences. A clinical… read more

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18. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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19. No Exit

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more

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20. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

21. Summa technologiae

By: Stanisław Lem , Friedrich Griese

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Summa technologiaefasst die zur Zeit greifbaren Ergebnisse der futurologischen Wissenschaft zusamme… read more

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22. True Hallucinations

By: Terence McKenna

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the … read more

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23. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

By: Deepak Chopra

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within is pages are the secrets of making all y… read more

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24. This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • science
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

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25. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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26. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Cover of Tihkal: The Continuation by Alexander Shulgin

27. Tihkal: The Continuation

By: Alexander Shulgin

4.41

Format: 804 pages, Paperback

A continuation of the classic PIHKAL, TIHKAL focuses on the family of psychoactive drugs in the try… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • chemistry
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • reference
  • science
Cover of Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Carl L. Hart

28. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

By: Carl L. Hart

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"

-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

Cover of I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World by Rachel Nuwer

29. I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

By: Rachel Nuwer

4.44

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments by William Leonard Pickard

30. The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments

By: William Leonard Pickard

4.40

Format: 654 pages, Paperback

A Harvard graduate student and researcher explores a global entheogen system, discovering their pra… read more

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  • philosophy
  • spirituality
Cover of Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds by Andrew R Gallimore

31. Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds

By: Andrew R Gallimore

4.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

You are in possession of an exquisite machine motionlessly buoyant in the softly circulating fluids… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
  • science

12 must-read philosophy books like Tihkal: The Continuation by Alexander Shulgin

Transform Your Habits

The Red Book: Liber Novus

C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Island

Aldous Huxley

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

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7 best-selling audiobook books like Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Carl L. Hart

Transform Your Habits

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Suzanne Scanlon

4.22

Transform Your Habits

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

Maia Szalavitz

4.54

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