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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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Aldous Huxley on Acid

This is a recording of Aldous Huxley on 100 ug of LSD, made on December 23 1962. The trip sitter is his wife, Laura Archera Huxley. He discusses the secret of life - to be oneself and at the same time 'identical with the divine'.

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Aldous Huxley
2019
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The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics | High Society

The UK is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance.

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Robin Carhart-Harris
2020
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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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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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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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Ralph Metzner Talks About LSD at Millbrook

Ralph Metzner, circa 1966, discussing the use of yoga to integrate the LSD experience into normal life.

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Ralph Metzner
2013
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Jason Silva's Thoughts on LSD Microdosing

Jason Silva explains what exactly happens when people microdose LSD and whether or not it can be beneficial.

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2017
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Rick Doblin, Ph.D. Shares His Ibogaine Experience

Interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D. Founder of psychedelic research group MAPS, as he talks about his experience with Ibogaine and LSD, in order to confront his own shadows and be more effective as a political activist.

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Rick Doblin
2012
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