5 Top spirituality books like Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin

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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

By: Tao Lin

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expos�, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literatur…

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1. Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more

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  • contemporary
"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

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2. A Separate Reality

By: Carlos Castaneda

4.05

Format: 240 pages,

"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only… read more

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  • philosophy
  • spirituality
  • psychology
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3. Against Everything: Essays

By: Mark Greif

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

In Against Everything, Mark Greif makes us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, ex… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

By: James Fadiman

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use - Presents practices for safe and … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science

5. 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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6. Too Much and Not the Mood

By: None

3.89

Format: 266 pages,

An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice… read more

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7. The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

By: Timothy Leary , Ralph Metzner

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

This manual uses material from The Tibetan Book of the Deadfor this preparation. The authors also m… read more

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8. Among the Thugs

By: Bill Buford

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more

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9. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

By: Chris Hedges , Joe Sacco

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe S… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

By: Carl L. Hart

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods… read more

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13. 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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14. 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
"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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15. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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16. Everybody: A Book About Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

 The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
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17. 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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  • history
  • 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

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18. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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19. White

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"[I]t seems that everyone has fallen under the thrall of this idea that we’re all writers and dramatists now, that each of us has a special voice and something very important to say, usually about a f…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, White

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20. Fuccboi

By: Sean Thor Conroe

3.07

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more

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  • contemporary
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21. The Novelist

By: Jordan Castro

3.41

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more

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  • contemporary
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22. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. Mobility

By: Lydia Kiesling

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more

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  • contemporary
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25. Antkind

By: Charlie Kaufman

3.71

Format: 720 pages, Kindle Edition

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Being John Mal… read more

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  • contemporary
"Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"I have often felt that I am being watched. That my life is being witnessed by unseen forces, that adjustments are made as these forces see fit, to thwart me, to humiliate me."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"Not much of note in my waking life. People get sick, or don’t. People die, or don’t. I watch TV, or don’t. Sometimes I smoke without remembering lighting up. I continue to go to a deranged hypnotist …"

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

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26. 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
  • history
  • 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

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27. LIVEBLOG

By: Megan Boyle

4.33

Format: 707 pages, Paperback

In 2013, Megan Boyle was unhappy with the life she was living and wanted to document it on the inte… read more

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28. Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

By: Tao Lin

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expos�, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literatur… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • contemporary
  • journalism
  • science
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29. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

By: Henry Threadgill

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. SILLYBOY

By: Peter Vack

3.72

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic love story between a meme-lord edgeboy and a tattoo artist e-girl. read more

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31. Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh (1996-08-17)

By: Irvine Welsh

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

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Mark Greif

3.50

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Honor Levy

3.27

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Olivia Laing

4.01

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3.94

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3.33

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