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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]
| Author | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Rouhier | Le Peyotl: La Plante Qui Fait les Yeux Émerveillés | 1927 |
| Stanislav Grof | LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine | 1975 |
| O. T. Oss and O. N. Oeric (Terence and Dennis McKenna) | Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide | 1976 |
| Joan Halifax | The Human Encounter With Death | 1977 |
| Peter Stafford | Psychedelics Encyclopedia | 1977, 1983, 1992 |
| Edward F. Anderson | Peyote: The Divine Cactus | 1980 |
| Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof | Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness | 1981 |
| Albert Most (Ken Nelson) | Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert | 1984 |
| Stanislav Grof | Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy | 1985 |
| Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin | PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story) | 1990 |
| Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennet | The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives | 1992 |
| Jonathan Ott | Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History | 1993 |
| Nicholas Saunders | E for Ecstasy | 1993 |
| Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin | TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation) | 1997 |
| Myron Stolaroff | The Secret Chief | 1997 |
| Stanislav Grof | The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness | 1998 |
| Rick Strassman | DMT: The Spirit Molecule | 2000 |
| Daniel Pinchbeck | Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism | 2003 |
| Peter Stafford | Psychedelics | 2003 |
| Stanislav Grof | When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities | 2006 |
| Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, and Paul F. Daley | The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds | 2011 |
| James Fadiman | The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys | 2011 |
| Michael Pollan | How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence | 2018 |
| Mike Jay | Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic | 2019 |
| Rachel Nuwer | I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World | 2023 |
| Author | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Peter T. Furst | Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens | 1972 |
| Peter T. Furst | Hallucinogens and Culture | 1976 |
| Allan D. Coult | Psychedelic Anthropology: The Study of Man Through the Manifestation of the Mind | 1977 |
| Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann | The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens | 1973/1980 |
| Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann | Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use (subsequently retitled Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers) | 1979/2001 |
| Richard Evans Schultes | Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia | 1984 |
| Jeremy Narby | The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge | 1988 |
| Christian Rätsch | The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Enzyklopädie der Psychoaktiven Pflanzen: Botanik, Ethnopharmakologie und Anwendung) | 1998/2005 |
| Dale Pendell | Pharmako/Gnosis | 2005 |
| John A. Rush | Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience | 2013 |
| Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar | Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science: Cultural Perspectives | 2018 |
| Mike Marinacci | Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches | 2023 |
| Author | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Kurt Beringer | Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise (Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation) | 1927 |
| Heinrich Klüver | Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects | 1928 |
| Aldous Huxley | The Doors of Perception | 1954 |
| Aldous Huxley | Heaven and Hell | 1956 |
| Alan Watts | Joyous Cosmology | 1962 |
| William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg | The Yage Letters | 1963 |
| Carlos Castaneda | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge | 1968 |
| John C. Lilly | Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer | 1968 |
| John C. Lilly | The Center of the Cyclone | 1972 |
| Aldous Huxley | Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience | 1977 |
| Albert Hofmann | LSD: My Problem Child (LSD – Mein Sorgenkind) | 1979/1980 |
| Terence McKenna | True Hallucinations | 1993 |
| John C. Lilly | The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography | 1996 |
| Don Lattin | The Harvard Psychedelic Club | 2010 |
| Tao Lin | Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change | 2018 |
| Author | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Martin A. Lee | Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond) | 1985 |
| Ben Sessa | To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic | 2015 |
| Author | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst Jünger | Visit to Godenholm | 1952 |
| Aldous Huxley | Island | 1962 |
| Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert | The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead | 1964 |
| Philip K. Dick | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | 1965 |
| Tom Wolfe | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | 1968 |
| Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) | Be Here Now | 1971 |
| Thaddeus Golas | The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment | 1971 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1971 |
| Duncan Fallowell | Satyrday | 1986 |
| Terence McKenna | Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge | 1992 |
| Donald Dunbar | Eyelid Lick | 2012 |
| William Leonard Pickard | The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments | 2015 |
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