The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
By: Alexander Beiner
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultu…
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1. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
By: Chögyam Trungpa
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more
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"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
2. Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences
By: William A. Richards
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort,… read more
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3. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
4. The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine
By: Gabor Maté , Joseph Tafur
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like… read more
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- spirituality
- psychology
5. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more
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6. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
By: Mason Currey
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more
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- nonfiction
7. 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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8. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
By: Adyashanti
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Audio CD
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more
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9. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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10. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
By: Albert Hofmann , Huston Smith , Carl A.P. Ruck , R. Gordon Wasson , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled s… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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14. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
By: Mahatma Gandhi
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more
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15. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- psychology
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
16. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.54
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate … read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- psychology
"Only nothing is true."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"Past and future are myths: stories in the mind."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
17. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- psychology
18. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
19. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more
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- spirituality
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20. Laziness Does Not Exist
By: Devon Price
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more
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- psychology
"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
21. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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- spirituality
- psychology
22. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
By: Brian C. Muraresku
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more
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- spirituality
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"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
23. The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
By: Alexander Beiner
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultu… read more
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- spirituality
- psychology
24. 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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- psychology
"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
25. The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential
By: David R. Hawkins
4.39
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
A simple and accessible exploration of the best-selling author of Letting Go and Power vs. Force Da… read more
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26. LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven
By: Christopher M. Bache
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions… read more
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27. In Light-Years There's No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life
By: Marjolijn van Heemstra
3.67
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our plan… read more
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28. 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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- psychology
29. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
By: Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book … read more
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30. Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game
By: Andrew R Gallimore
4.34
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Since prehistory, humans have used a range of psychedelic drugs for communion with the gods, connec… read more
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31. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
By: Christof Koch
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more
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