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
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1. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
4.28
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more
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"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
2. The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook: The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying
By: Chris Kilham
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbookprovides a practical guide to ayahuasca use, aiding seekers in ma… read more
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3. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
4. Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge
By: Jeremy Narby
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
Continuing the journey begun in his acclaimed book The Cosmic Serpent, the noted anthropologist ven… read more
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
By: Robert A. Johnson
4.29
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve persona… read more
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"You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience."-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
"People were startled to hear that if we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time."-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
8. 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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9. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
By: Adyashanti
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Audio CD
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more
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10. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
By: Anthony de Mello , J. Francis Stroud
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
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11. Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
By: Graham Hancock
4.32
Format: 224 pages,
Less than 50,000 years ago humans had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovativ… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… 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. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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18. UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe
By: Chris Bledsoe
4.40
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
* * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * *Are the biblical stories of angels in the Old Testament be… read more
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19. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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20. 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
21. Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
By: Jeremy Narby
4.16
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science… read more
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