2013-06-18

Psychedelic books have always constituted a large percentage of my reading time.

From my teenage days when I  traveled far to the city in search of  bookstores stocking anything to do with psychedelia to today where I can have my next book delivered to my ebook reader within seconds. Psychedelic literature of all forms has shaped my understanding of life and continues to inform my decisions.

So in an effort to collate all the psychedelic books I have read and would like to read I have put all the books in a long list of noteworthy titles. 

That done, I was wondering if you guys have any others you would like to recommend ? 



This list is a work in progress so please help me build up a solid collection of psychedelic books that we can share as a resource for people everywhere. I have included all kinds of trippy literature here from drugs, spiritualism, art, music and the science behind the psychedelic experience. 

So if you have any of your own favorites to add please comment in the form below, send me an email or contact me via the Facebook link on the right-side of this blog.

Happy reading !

LSD My Problem Child - Albert Hofmann

Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story - Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

LSD - Otto Snow

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe 

Sacred Mushroom of Visions  - Ralph Metzner

Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations - Timothy Leary

Your Brain Is God - Timothy Leary

High Priest - Timothy Leary

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Timothy Leary

The Invisible Landscape  - Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna

Thr Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna

True Hallucinations  - Terence McKenna

Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley  

Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture - Uncle Fester

Adventures Beyond the Body - William Buhlman

Animals and Psychedelics - Rob Montgomery , Giorgio Samorini

The Shaman & Ayahuasca - Don Jose Campos, Geraldine Overton, Alberto Roman, Charles Grob 

Ayahuasca Visions - Pablo Amaringo, Luis Luna

Sacred Vine of Spirits : Ayahuasca - Ralph Metzner

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Jeremy Narby

DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman

Shedding the Layers - Mark Flaherty

The Ayahuasca Diaries - Caspar Greeff

Fishers of Men - Adam Elenbaas

Heavenly Highs - Peter Stafford

Pineal Gland & Third Eye - Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler

Supernatural - Graham Hancock

Inner Paths to Outer Space - Rick Strassman

The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - James Fadiman

Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing - Michael Muhammad Knight

Hallucinogens: A Reader - Charles S. Grob   

The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia - Paul Devereux

One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck

The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs - Daniel M. Perrine

Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti - Adam Gottlieb

Peyote : The Divine Cactus - Edward F. Anderson

The Hummingbird's Journey to God: Perspectives on San Pedro - Ross Heaven

Plant Spirit Shamanism - Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing

Plants of the Gods - Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch

Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook - L. G Nicholas, Kerry Ogame

Psychedelic Monographs & Essays - Thomas Lyttle

The Psychedelic Sacrament - Dan Merkur

Off the Wall: Psychedelic Rock Posters from San Francisco - Jean Pierre Criqui 

Mushrooms and Mankind - James Arthur

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind - Thomas B. Roberts

The Psychedelic Renaissance - Dr Ben Sessa

The New Science of Psychedelics - David Jay Brown

Brotherhood of the screaming abyss - Dennis McKenna

Psychedelic Shamanism - Jim DeKorne     

Psychedelic Trips for the Mind - Paul Krassner

Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford

Sacred Plant Medicine : The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism - Stephen Harrod Buhner

Soma : Divine Mushroom of Immortality - R. Gordon Wasson

Persephone's Quest - R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, Jonathan Ott

The Great Shark Hunt : Strange Tales from a Strange Time  - Hunter S. Thompson

Sisters of the Extreme - Various

Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati - Robert Anton Wilson

What the Dormouse Said - John Markoff

The Road of Excess : A History of Writers on Drugs - Marcus Boon

The Joyous Cosmology : Adventures in the Chemistry of Conciousness - Alan Watts

The Road to Eleusis - R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann

Are You Experienced ? - Ken Johnson

The Secret Chief - Myron J. Stolaroff

The Natural Mind - Andrew T. Weil M.D.

Earth Ascending - Ph.D. Jose Arguelles

States of Consciousness - Charles Tart

The Private Sea : LSD & the Search for God - William Braden

Transfiguration - Alex Grey

Storming Heaven : LSD and the American Dream - Jay Stevens

The Teachings of Don Juan ( series ) - Carlos Castaneda

Psychedelic : Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s - David Rubin

Tryptamine Palace : 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad - James Oroc 

Electrical Banana : Masters of Psychedelic Art - Norman Hathaway, Daniel Nadel

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes : The Art of Alan Aldridge - Alan Aldridge

Art of the Dead - Phil Cushway

High Art : A History of the Psychedelic Poster - Ted Owen

Sex, Rock 'n' Roll & Op. Illusions - Victor Moscoso

Visionary Plant Consciousness - J. P. Harpignies

Yellow Submarine.. the Beatles (hardcover) - Charlie Gardner

Hallucinogenic Plants (A Golden Guide) - Richard Evans Schultes, Elmer W. Smith

Ecstasy : The MDMA Story - Bruce Eisner, Peter Stafford, Stanley Krippner

Codex Seraphinianus - Luigi Serafini

Art Forms in Nature - Ernst Haeckel

Salvia Divinorum : Doorway to Thought Free Awareness - J. D. Arthur

Mushroom Wisdom : How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness - Martin W. Ball

Ayahuasca in My Blood : 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming - Peter Gorman

Ayahuasca Reader -  Luis Eduardo Luna, Steven F. White

Cleansing the Doors of Perception - Huston Smith

Sacred Mushrooms : Secrets of Eleusis - Carl A. P. Ruck

Etidorpha The End of Earth - John Uri Lloyd

Psychedelic Healing - Neal M. Goldsmith

Decoding Eternal Tales : Psychedelic Art of John Thompson - John Thompson

Global Tribe : Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance - Graham St. John

Orange Sunshine - Nicholas Schou

The Art of Peter Max - Charles A. Riley, Peter Max

Illuminatus - Robert Venosa

LSD Psychotherapy - Stanislav Grof

The Futurological Congress : From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem

Grudge Punk - John McNee

Vurt / Pollen - Jeff Noon

Visions of a Huichol Shaman - Peter T. Furst

The Shaman's Mirror : Visionary Art of the Huichol

Trout's Notes on San Pedro & Related Trichocereus Species - Keeper of the Trout

Left in the Dark - Tony Wright, Graham Gynn   

Entangled - Graham Hancock

Enter Through the Image - L. Caruana

The Art of the Fillmore : 1966-1971 - Gayle Lemke, Bill Graham

Memoirs of an ExHippie : Seven Years in the Counterculture - Robert A. Roskind   

  

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