List of psychedelic literature

This is a list of psychedelic literature, works related to psychedelic drugs and the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic literature has also been defined as textual works that arose from the proliferation of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic research with hallucinogens during the 1950s and early 1960s in North America and Europe.[1]

Science

Author Title Published
Stanislav Grof LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine 1975
Joan Halifax The Human Encounter With Death 1977
Peter Stafford Psychedelics Encyclopedia 1977
Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness 1981
Stanislav Grof Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy 1985
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story) 1990
Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennet The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives 1992
Jonathan Ott Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History 1993
Nicholas Saunders E for Ecstasy 1993
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation) 1997
Myron Stolaroff The Secret Chief 1997
Stanislav Grof The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness 1998
Rick Strassman DMT: The Spirit Molecule 2000
Daniel Pinchbeck Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism 2003
Peter Stafford Psychedelics 2003
Stanislav Grof When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities 2006
James Fadiman The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys 2011
Michael Pollan How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 2018

Anthropology

Author Title Published
Peter T. Furst Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens 1972
Peter T. Furst Hallucinogens and Culture 1976
Allan D. Coult Psychedelic Anthropology: The Study of Man Through the Manifestation of the Mind 1977
Richard Evans Schultes Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use 1979
Richard Evans Schultes Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia 1984
Jeremy Narby The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge 1988
Dale Pendell Pharmako/Gnosis 2005
John A. Rush Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience 2013
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science: Cultural Perspectives 2018

Subjective effects

Author Title Published
Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception 1954
Aldous Huxley Heaven and Hell 1956
Alan Watts Joyous Cosmology 1962
William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg The Yage Letters 1963
Carlos Castaneda The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 1968
John C. Lilly Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer 1968
John C. Lilly The Center of the Cyclone 1972
Aldous Huxley Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience 1977
Terence McKenna True Hallucinations 1993
John C. Lilly The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography 1996
Don Lattin The Harvard Psychedelic Club 2010
Robert Dickins Erin 2015
Tao Lin Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change 2018

Political possibilities

Author Title Published
Martin A. Lee Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion 1985
Ben Sessa To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic 2015

Inspired by psychedelic experience

Author Title Published
Ernst Jünger Visit to Godenholm 1952
Aldous Huxley Island 1962
Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead 1964
Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1965
Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) Be Here Now 1971
Thaddeus Golas The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment 1971
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1971
Terence McKenna Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge 1992
Donald Dunbar Eyelid Lick 2012
William Leonard Pickard The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments 2015

Periodicals

Psychedelic magazines

  • DoubleBlind Mag
  • Dragibus Magazine
  • The Entheogen Review
  • High Frontiers
  • Psychedelic Magazine
  • Psychedelic Monographs and Essays

Academic journals

Publishers

See also

References

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