15 best-selling nonfiction books like Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground by Rachel Harris

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Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground

By: Rachel Harris

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

WISDOM FROM THE WOMEN HEALERS OF THE PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND The use of entheogens, or psychedelic…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground by Rachel Harris , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. 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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2. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

By: Laura Lynne Jackson

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"We are all leaves on different branches of the same tree."

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

"Sometimes, the sign is the whisper in our heart, the deep and undeniable pull, the inherent knowing that the answer is already there.... If we are open to this, it will truly enrich our lives. Becaus…"

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

"Souls have deep connections and unique contracts that span centuries, exist back and forth in time, and bind us in ways we can't really understand.... These connections are ancient and everlasting, a…"

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

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3. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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4. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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5. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

By: Kelly McDaniel

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

By: Carolyn Elliott

3.86

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves so… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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10. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy

By: Stanislav Grof

3.89

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork. In this long-awaited book, Stanislav … read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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13. Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

By: Damien Lewis

3.78

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Si… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Search

By: Michelle Huneven

3.87

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes Dana… read more

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  • spirituality
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15. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Power of Attachment

By: Diane Poole Heller

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How traumatic events can break our vital connections―and how to restore love, wholeness, and resili… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

By: Fariha Róisín

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commod… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I think her precocious intellectual development is what happens to bright and sensitive kids when the emotional environment isn't able to hold them. They develop this very powerful intellect that hol…"

-Fariha Róisín, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

"I have a lot of grief over being robbed of my early life and so I have a lot of anger towards people who have had good childhoods, it’s a privilege. I’m not sure why we don’t understand this. Especia…"

-Fariha Róisín, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

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18. Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground

By: Rachel Harris

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

WISDOM FROM THE WOMEN HEALERS OF THE PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND The use of entheogens, or psychedelic… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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19. Healing Space

By: Matt Licata

4.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A gifted teacher explores how both hardship and joy can lead us back to the sacredness of ordinary … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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20. Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming

By: Maia Toll

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the  Wild Wisdom  series and  The Night School,  comes t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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21. Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism

By: Kittisaro and Thanissara

4.27

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband and wife share stories of struggle and triumph along the path of the Buddha, distilling h… read more

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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Laura Lynne Jackson

4.16

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3.86

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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

4.27

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Stanislav Grof

3.89

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Mark Wolynn

3.55

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Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Richard C. Schwartz

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Stephanie Foo

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