Psychedelic literature

This is a list of psychedelic literature, works related to psychedelic drugs and the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic literature has also been defined as textual works that arose from the proliferation of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic research with hallucinogens during the 1950s and early 1960s in North America and Europe.^[1]

The science of psychedelic drugs

• Psychedelics, Peter Stafford. Ronin Publishing (2003) ISBN 0-914171-18-6
• Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story (PiHKAL) by Alexander Shulgin and wife Ann Shulgin
• Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation (TiHKAL) by Alexander Shulgin and wife Ann Shulgin
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
• Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History by Jonathan Ott
• LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
• Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness (1981)by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science (1984) Edited by Stanislav Grof
• Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy (1985)by Stanislav Grof
• Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution (1988) Edited by Stanislav Grof with Marjorie L. Valier
• The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy (1988)by Stanislav Grof
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (1989) Edited by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformative Crisis (1990)by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives (1992) by Stanislav Grof with Hal Zina Bennet
• Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying (1993) by Stanislav Grof
• The Thirst for Wholeness: Attachment, Addiction and the Spiritual Path (1994) by Christina Grof
• The Transpersonal Vision (1998) book and audio by Stanislav Grof
• Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research (1975) by Stanislav Grof
• The Human Encounter With Death (1977) with Joan Halifax
• The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (1998) by Stanislav Grof
• The Consciousness Revolution: A Transatlantic Dialogue (1999) by Stanislav Grof with Peter Russell and Ervin Laszlo. Foreword by Ken Wilber
• Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (2000)by Stanislav Grof
• Caterpillar Dreams (2004) by Stanislav Grof with Melody Sullivan
• When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (2006) by Stanislav Grof
• The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death (2006) by Stanislav Grof
• The Secret Chief by Myron Stolaroff
• The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
• Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
• Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford

The anthropology of psychedelic drugs

• The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
• Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
• Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use by Richard Evans Schultes
• Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. by Richard Evans Schultes
• The Art of Shamanic Healing by Wade Davis

Subjective effects of psychedelic drugs

• Harris, Joel R. Into the heart of the Amazon in search of Truth.2008 ISBN 978-1-4404-1848-8
• The Journeybook: Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness edited by Rak Razam
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
• The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly
• The Scientist: a novel autobiography by John C. Lilly
• Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments by John C. Lilly
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Shivviti by Ka-Tzetnik aka Yehiel De-Nur
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
• Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts
• aya: a shamanic odyssey by Rak Razam
• The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
• The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin
• True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna

Political Possibilities of psychedelic drugs

• Island by Aldous Huxley
• Wisdom's Maw by Todd Brendan Fahey
• Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin A. Lee
• Beyond the Basin by Alexander Beiner

Direct inspiration of the psychedelic experience

• The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert; based on Karma-Glin-Pa Bar Do Thos Grol
• Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
• Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil
• The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (1971) by Thaddeus Golas
• Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert)
• Eyelid Lick by Donald Dunbar^[2]
• Orange Sunshine and the Psychedelic Sunrise by Christopher Carpenter

Psychedelic magazines

• Psychozoic Press
• High Frontiers
• Psychedelic Monographs and Essays
• The Entheogen Review
• Dragibus Magazine
• PsypressUK: Anthology of Pharmacography
• The Psychedelic Review
• Thought Nachos

References

1. ↑ https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/4207/DickinsR.pdf?sequence=4
2. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/november-2012-contemporar_b_2214445.html

See also

• Erowid