List of psychedelic literature

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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]

Contents

Science

AuthorTitlePublished
Stanislav Grof LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine1975
Joan Halifax The Human Encounter With Death1977
Peter Stafford Psychedelics Encyclopedia1977
Stanislav Grof, Christina GrofBeyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness1981
Albert Most (Ken Nelson) Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert 1984
Stanislav GrofBeyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy1985
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story)1990
Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina BennetThe Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives1992
Jonathan Ott Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History1993
Nicholas Saunders E for Ecstasy 1993
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation)1997
Myron Stolaroff The Secret Chief1997
Stanislav GrofThe Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness1998
Rick Strassman DMT: The Spirit Molecule2000
Daniel Pinchbeck Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism 2003
Peter StaffordPsychedelics2003
Stanislav GrofWhen the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities2006
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 Journeys2011
Michael Pollan How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 2018
Mike JayMescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic2019
Rachel Nuwer I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World 2023

Anthropology

AuthorTitlePublished
Peter T. FurstFlesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens1972
Peter T. FurstHallucinogens and Culture1976
Allan D. CoultPsychedelic Anthropology: The Study of Man Through the Manifestation of the Mind1977
Richard Evans Schultes Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use1979
Richard Evans SchultesVine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia1984
Jeremy Narby The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge 1988
Dale Pendell Pharmako/Gnosis2005
John A. RushEntheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience2013
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy CavnarPlant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science: Cultural Perspectives2018

Subjective effects

AuthorTitlePublished
Kurt Beringer Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise (Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation)1927
Heinrich Klüver Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects1928
Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception 1954
Aldous Huxley Heaven and Hell 1956
Alan Watts Joyous Cosmology1962
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 HuxleyMoksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience1977
Albert Hofmann LSD: My Problem Child1983
Terence McKenna True Hallucinations1993
John C. LillyThe Scientist: A Novel Autobiography1996
Don Lattin The Harvard Psychedelic Club2010
Tao Lin Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change2018

Political possibilities

AuthorTitlePublished
Martin A. Lee Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion1985
Ben Sessa To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic2015

Inspired by psychedelic experience

AuthorTitlePublished
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 Enlightenment1971
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1971
Duncan Fallowell Satyrday1986
Terence McKenna Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge1992
Donald Dunbar Eyelid Lick2012
William Leonard Pickard The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments 2015

Periodicals

Psychedelic magazines

Academic journals

Publishers

See also

References

  1. Dickins, Robert John (September 2012). The Birth of Psychedelic Literature: Drug Writing and the rise of LSD Therapy 1954 – 1964 (PDF) (Master's thesis). University of Exeter . Retrieved 8 July 2020.

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