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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 Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.

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Alan Watts
2013
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A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience

Journeying into the invisible world revealed by his use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM (dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found that what he experienced was not simply subjective sensations and psychological states but an objective world of familiar, if inordinately odd, landmarks and...

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Dan Carpenter, Daniel Pinchbeck (foreword)
2006
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The Discovery Of Love: A Psychedelic Experience With LSD-25

The Discovery of Love, first published in 1963, is one man's experience with the hallucinogenic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), administered in a clinical setting.

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Malden Grange Bishop
2013
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The Ecstatic Imagination: Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of

Presents the first comprehensive survey of the varieties of psychedelic experience since 1975.

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Daniel Merkur
1998
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Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience

Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research in this comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences.

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David Luke
2019
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The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience was published in 1966, just as the first legal restrictions on the use of psychedelic substances were being enacted.

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Robert Masters, Jean Houston
2000
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Live LSD Simulation: “An Interactive Trip” (Educational Content)

Take a visual journey through the potential stages of an Acid Trip’s “Come Up” - all in the name of Education and Harm Reduction.

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2019
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Joe Rogan - Psychedelics May Show You Things You Don't Want to See

Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1179:

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2018
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Rob Lowe and Joe Rogan Discuss Psychedelic Experiences

Taken from JRE #1522 w/Rob Lowe

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2020
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Psychedelics Are Fueling a Mental Health Revolution

Once deemed dangerous and illegal, psychedelic compounds have been rediscovered by the scientific, medical and psychiatric communities as research reveals their capacity to help patients with a range of maladies.

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2020
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