Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic
By: Mike Jay
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley’s The Doors…
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more
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3. Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
By: Tom Shroder
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
It's no secret that psychedelic drugs have the ability to cast light on the miraculous reality hidd… read more
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4. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomen… read more
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5. The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
By: Stanislav Grof
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Cosmic Game discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual insights gleaned i… read more
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6. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Out of Africa
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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"[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
13. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
By: Christopher M. Palmer
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you … read more
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"Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages…"-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
"The specific psychiatric disorders in which mitochrondrial dysfunction has been identified include the following: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, autism, …"-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
14. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By: Mike Jay
3.94
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more
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15. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. Secrets of the Occult
By: Richard B. Spence
3.91
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From spirituality to politics and science, the occult has had an astonishing influence on the human… read more
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18. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
By: Graham Hancock
4.14
Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition
***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative versio… read more
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"...as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts."-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
"Massive wildfires occurred at the onset of the Younger Dryas, representing the most anomalous episode of biomass burning in at least 120,000 years and possibly in the past ~386,000 years."-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
"A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record."-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
"We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand…"-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
19. 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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20. Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic
By: Mike Jay
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley’s The Doors… read more
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21. Letters from Guantánamo
By: Mansoor Adayfi
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia… read more
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