Psychedelics

“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.

Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated.The book is divided into four sections:Journey: The Transformation: Dr Richard Alpert, PhD into Baba Ram DassFrom Bindu to Ojas: The Core BookCookbook for a Sacred Life: A...

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their DayGlo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. B...

Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problemsolving use Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and selfdiscovery as well as how LSD has facilitated scientific and technical problemsolving Reveals how...

A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of NearDeath & Mystical Experiences.A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT: A behindthescenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted US DEAapproved clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected 60 vol...

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took fourtenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. Huxley described his experience in 'The Doors of Perception' and its sequel 'Heaven and Hell'....

?A book that should start a longoverdue national conversation.? ?Dave Barry Despite their illegality, many Americans are already familiar with the effects of psychedelic drugs. Yet while LSD and MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) have proven extraordinarily effective in treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD, they remain offlimits to the millions wh...

"FRANÇOISE BOURZAT HAS WRITTEN AN AUTHORITATIVE BOOK ON GUIDED PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY WITH IMPORTANT LESSONS FOR ANYONE THINKING OF EITHER GUIDING OR BEING GUIDED." (MICHAEL POLLAN VIA TWITTER)A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE SAFE AND ETHICAL APPLICATION OF EXPANDED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR THERAPISTS, HEALING PRACTITIONERS, AND SINCERE EXPLORERS.Psych...

A journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field that suggest how 5MeODMT triggers the human capacity for higher knowledge through direct contact with the zeropoint field ? Examines Bufo alvarius toad venom, which contains the potent natural psychedelic 5MeODMT, and explores its entheogenic use ? Proposes a new connection between the findings o...

Worldrenowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers. ? Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text. ? Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout...

In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxley?s The Doors of Perception literally opened a door. Watts walked through it with this classic account of the levels of insight consciousnesschanging drugs can facilitate when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.? W...

A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human EvolutionFor the first time in paperback, the counterculture manifesto on mindaltering drugs & hallucinogens. Illustrated. A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human EvolutionFor the first time in paperback, the counterculture manifesto on mindaltering drugs & hallucinogens. Illustrated. ...more...

A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her m...

Microdosing Psychedelics: A Practical Guide to Upgrade Your Life by Paul Austin is a comprehensive guide to all the necessary information on the practice of microdosing ? including protocols, benefits, drawbacks, and sourcing. Weaving together anecdotal narratives and preliminary research on the use of small amounts of psychedelics, Microdosing Psy...

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expos, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelistsThe Electric KoolAid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.While reeling from one of the most creativebut at times selfdestructiveoutpourings of his...

This manual uses material from The Tibetan Book of the Dead for this preparation. The authors also make an important contribution to the interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. They show that it is concerned not with the dead, but with the living. The last section of the manual provides instructions for an actual psychedelic session, under ...

Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecylike states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology and religious experience ? Reveals the striking similarities between the visions of the Hebrew prophets and the DMT state described by Strassman?s research volunteers ? Explains how prophetic and psychedelic states may share biologi...

A new collection of neverbeforepublished paintings by renowned artist Pablo Amaringo ? With written contributions by Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Robert Venosa, Dennis McKenna, Stephan Beyer, and Jan Kounen ? Contains 47 color plates of Amaringo?s latest works, with detailed narratives of the rich Amazonian mythology underlying each painting ? S...

From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybincontaining mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their longstanding (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and their cont...

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why.I have watched people spend years in frustration and thousands of dollars consulting an army of specialists, without getting real relief from thei...

Learn. Prepare. Trip. Transform!With so much misinformation surrounding magic mushrooms out there, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. This is where Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion comes in to help. In this book, you?ll find a comprehensive yet friendly guide to everything there is to know about magic mushrooms.Learn how to plan safe, ...

When National Geographic Adventure published an article in 2006 about the powerful antidepressant effects of ayahuasca, the piece received a phenomenal reader response. That article struck a chord with psychotherapist Rachel Harris, who had encountered many clients unresponsive to traditional therapy and antidepressant protocols. Used for more than...

The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 60s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research. Much of what had been learned over thirty years of scientific medical study was so distorted or suppressed that no objective overview was available to the general reader except for this b...

A pioneering and revolutionary book that lays the foundation for a radical new psychology, based on an expanded cartography of the human unconsciousness. Famous for his lifelong research into psychedelic drugs, Dr. Grof constructs a comprehensive and helpful framework out of the bewildering welter of experiences triggered by LSD in patients and res...

In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanishspeaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorpo...

A psychiatrist and psychedelic researcher explores the science of connectionwhy we need it, how we've lost it, and how we might find it again.We are suffering from an epidemic of disconnection that antidepressants and social media can't fix. This state of isolation puts us in "fight or flight mode," deranging sleep, metabolism and libido. What's ...

This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. We follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other...

Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into nonordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of the unconscious, including two new realms still unacknowledged by official academic circlesthe pe...

In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort, however, quickly turned into a discredited enterprise involving recreational drug use. But what if a study of psychedelics was undertaken with trusted scientific rigor William A. Richards does just that in Sacred Knowledge, the first welldocumented...

Conversations with Leo Zeff, pioneer in the underground psychedelic therapy movement....

Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the Amazon Basin. Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time & mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of downtoearth reasons for preserving the planet.Preface1 The Call of the Secre...

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account?part of it gleaned from secret government files?tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and launched a massive cov...

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world....

Psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts for emotional and spiritual transformation ? Explores the latest medical research on the healing powers of entheogens ? Reveals the crucial role of tribal and shamanic wisdom in psychedelic medicine ? Provides guidelines for working with psychedelics, including the author?s personal healing and recommendations ...

Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity ? Outlines a future that embraces psychedelics as tools for cognitive development, personal growth, business, and an experiencebased religious reformation ? Presents research on the use of psychedelics to enhance probl...

Explores the potential of psychedelics as medicine and the intersections of politics, science, and psychedelics ? Explores the tumultuous history of psychedelic research, the efforts to restore psychedelic therapies, and the links between psychiatric drugs and mental illness ? Offers nontechnical summaries of the most recent, doubleblind, placebo...

This is a novel about a small band of friends who are part of a world wide psychedelic community loosely calling itself "the Tribe." Like many other forwardthinking people today, they are struggling to make the transition from cubicleworking consumers into beings who are more truly human. The story that Lorenzo weaves is the tale of a young man c...

A thoroughly revised edition of the muchsoughtafter early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching....

More and more Ayahuasca has come to the attention of the Western media. Used by the shamans of Peru , the rituals and practices around this psychoactive plantbased brew date back 5070,000 years as evidenced by rock and cave paintings found the world over. Through their use of Ayahuasca, Shamans establish contact with the spirit world which they c...