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What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness

By Iris Kulbatski — 2020

Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.

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The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History

Cited by the L.A. Weekly as "the culture's foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, and expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants.

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Terence McKenna
1992
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The Politics of Ecstasy

Originally published in 1970, this is Leary’s most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness. It includes his early pronouncements on the psychedelic movement, and his views on the social and political ramifications of the related mystical experience.

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Timothy Leary
1990
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Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

In May 1953, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind.

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Aldous Huxley
1999
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Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Etheogenic Plants and Chemicals

Huston Smith, internationally recognized philosopher, scholar of religion, and author of the long-acclaimed classic The World's Religions, now offers Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals.

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Huston Smith
2009
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