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Visions and Hallucinations books

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Visions and hallucinations are a recognized type of spiritual experience across many traditions. One one hand, they can be eye-opening moments of transcendence, revelation, and bliss, while on the other hand, they can be terrifying experiences of loss or warning. Whether these experiences come intentionally through practice and the consumption of medicines or psychedelics or spontaneously through a physical or medical condition, the significance and interpretation of these events can leave a deep and lasting impact on the experiencer. Even positive visions may leave someone experiencing depression, pain, or confusion once they “return to reality.” While many mystic traditions were started through practitioners having visions or out-of-consciousness experiences, many traditions also warn against seeking out these experiences or trying to force them to happen, as it can lead to spiritually and physically dangerous results.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.

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The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

In The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys, Fadiman reviews the newest as well as the neglected research into the psychotherapeutic value of visionary drug use for increased personal awareness and a host of serious medical conditions, including the study of the...

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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness.

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Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years.

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The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings.

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The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication

This reference explores Qabbalah, Sibyls, Fairies, Poltergeists; phenomena such as intuition and karma; objects useful in the attempt to cross the divide, including tarot cards, flower reading, and runes; and related practices such as Shamanism, transfiguration, meditation, and mesmerism.

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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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When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry.

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True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise

This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry.

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Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness: Conversations with Albert Hofmann, Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, Jeremy Narby, Simon Posford, and Others

David Jay Brown explores the future of mind-altering drugs, hallucinogenic plants, and the evolution of human consciousness through interviews with LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, psychologist Stanislav Grof, DMT researcher Rick Strassman, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, MAPS founder Rick Doblin,...

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