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Your Brain Is God

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By Timothy Leary — 2001

This collection of essays, written by the poster boy of 1960s counterculture, describes the psychological journey Timothy Leary made in the years following his dismissal from Harvard, as his psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious arena. See more...

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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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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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The Doors of Perception

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary.

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Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain

When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way.

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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

While isolating himself to work on his novel Taipei, Tao Lin discovered the prolific work of Terence McKenna--the leading advocate of psychotropic drugs since Timothy Leary.

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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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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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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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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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Psychedelic Journey