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Ego Death and Psychedelics

By John Harrison

Most of us involved in consciousness research and exploration have had both personal and/or professional episodes that resemble or emulate a temporary ego death (loss of the separate self) or, in the affirmative, have experienced a deep and profound merging with the transcendent other.

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

More than fifty years after the Summer of Love, the promise of the psychoactive ’60s—that deeper self-awareness and greater harmony can be achieved through reality-bending substances and practices—is close to becoming a mainstream phenomenon.

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Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Daniel Pinchbeck (introduction)
2017
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Taking Mushrooms with a Shaman

Our time with a curendera in the small town of Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Mushroom healer from the Mazatec tradition. We also visit the home and family of Maria Sabina.

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2020
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18:17

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

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Jonathan Haidt
2012
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TIHKAL: The Continuation

TiHKAL: The Continuation is the sequel to PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. TiHKAL is written about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines with TiHKAL being an acronym for "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved”. Like its predecessor, it is divided into two parts.

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Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
2025
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PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story

An acronym for “Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved”, the book spans autobiography, organic chemistry, politics, ethnobotany, and psychopharmacology. PiHKAL is divided into two parts, the first of which is a fictionalized autobiographical 'novel', The Love Story.

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Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
1990
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56:37

18. Bodyfulness for Deeper Mindfulness

Christine Caldwell talks about her new book, Bodyfulness, which is a practice that challenges us to take mindfulness one step further by using our body's knowledge and intuition to make more empowered and informed choices in everyday life.

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Christine Caldwell
2017
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Bodyfulness talk

A presentation on Bodyfulness - the theory and methods of body-centered practices that can be applied to psychotherapy, the arts, education, and activism

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Christine Caldwell
2021
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Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in.

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Christine Caldwell
2025
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Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies

More and more people are turning to new mind-body therapies to address physical and emotional ills.

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Christine Caldwell
1997
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The Doors of Perception

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley
2025
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Ego Dissolution