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,…
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1. Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Francisco J. Varela
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This is an absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost repr… read more
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"It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to realize that the spiritual factor is important. I say '…"-Dalai Lama XIV, Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness
2. 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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3. 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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4. The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
By: Jeremy Narby
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribunesaid might herald "a Copernican… read more
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5. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more
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6. 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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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 Doors of Perception
By: Aldous Huxley
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First publi… read more
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9. The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
By: Don Lattin
4.30
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
"[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read." --Dennis McNally, author o… read more
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10. 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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11. Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
By: Daniel Pinchbeck , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
16. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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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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"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
18. Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
By: Scott Barry Kaufman
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full … read more
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19. 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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"...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
20. 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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21. Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research
By: Stanislav Grof
4.31
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
A pioneering and revolutionary book that lays the foundation for a radical new psychology, based on… read more
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