19 best-selling nonfiction books like Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds by Andrew R Gallimore

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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…

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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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2. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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5. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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6. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

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"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

7. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

By: Philip K. Dick

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more

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8. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

9. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

By: None , Alexander Shulgin

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

phen-ethyl-amine \fen-'eth-al-a-,men\ n. [phenyl fr. F. phene, fr. Gk. phainein, to show (from its … read more

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10. 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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11. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

By: António Damásio

4.23

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more

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12. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

By: Lisa Feldman Barrett

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more

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13. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more

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18. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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19. 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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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"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

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20. 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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  • 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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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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22. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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23. Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

By: Michael A. Singer

4.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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24. 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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  • spirituality
  • psychology
  • 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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25. 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
  • psychology
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26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
  • science
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27. The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies

By: Keith Seifert

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating account of the “in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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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

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29. Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

By: Exurb1a

4.29

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

exurb1a presents his all-new collection of self-indulgent poetry. An unlikely bestseller, so unlike… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't mind living a brief life as a stupid animal when I get to see your face in the morning."

-Exurb1a, Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

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30. 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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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
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31. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

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6 Top spirituality books like Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds by Andrew R Gallimore

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Michael A. Singer

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self

Jay L. Garfield

4.06

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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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