A Psychedelics Reading List This list includes eight books which are banned in Australia (see links below). Some of these are available in full online, and links are given. Others are available via amazon.com or other online booksellers. Other books in this list (e.g. TIHKAL) would very likely be banned in Australia except that no-one has submitted them to the Australian censors to make a ruling.
- Author(s): Adamson, Sophia (ed.)
- Title: Through the Gateway of the Heart: Accounts of Experiences with MDMA and other Empathogenic Substances
- Publication date: 1985
- ISBN: 0-936329-00-9
- Publisher: Four Trees Publications, San Francisco
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- Author(s): Allegro, John
- Title: The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
- Publication date: 1970
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- Publisher: Doubleday & Co., New York
- Author(s): Anonymous
- Title: Salvia Divinorum Grower's Guide
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- Publisher: Spectral Mindustries
- Author(s): Arthur, James
- Title: Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion
- Publication date: 2000
- ISBN: 1-58509-151-0
- Publisher: The Book Tree, P.O.Box 724, Escondido, CA 92033, USA
- Author(s): Beck, Jerome, and Marsha Rosenbaum
- Title: Pursuit of Ecstasy: The MDMA Experience
- Publication date: 1994
- ISBN: 0-7914-1818-9
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Author(s): Beifuss, Will
- Title: Psychedelic Sourcebook
- Publication date: 1996
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- Publisher: Rosetta, P. O. Box 4611, Berkeley, CA 94704-0611
- Author(s): Black, David
- Title: ACID: The Secret History of LSD
- Publication date: January 1998
- ISBN: 1-901250-11-3
- Publisher: Vision Paperbacks, 20 Queen Anne St, London W1M OAY, U.K.
- Author(s): DeKorne, Jim
- Title: Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants
- Publication date: 1994
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- Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (P.O.Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368)
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Deveraux, Paul
- Title: The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
- Publication date: 1997
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- Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (P.O.Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368)
- Author(s): Gottlieb, Adam
- Title: Ancient and Modern Methods of Growing Extraordinary Marijuana
- Publication date: 1975, 2nd edition August 1998
- ISBN: 0914171941
- Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Gottlieb, Adam
- Title: Legal Highs
- Publication date: 1973
- ISBN: 0-914171-82-8
- Publisher: And/Or Press
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Gottlieb, Adam
- Title: The Art and Science of Cooking with Cannabis
- Publication date: 1974, reprinted 1993
- ISBN: 0914171550
- Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Gottlieb, Adam
- Title: Peyote and other Psychoactive Cacti
- Publication date: 1977
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- Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (P.O.Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368)
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Grinspoon, Lester, and James Bakalar
- Title: Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered
- Publication date: 1979/1997
- ISBN: 0-9641568-5-7
- Publisher: Lindesmith Center
- Author(s): Grof, Stanislav
- Title: Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research
- Publication date: 1975
- ISBN: 0-285-64882-9
- Publisher: Souvenir Press
- Author(s): Grof, Stanislav
- Title: LSD Psychotherapy
- Publication date: 2nd edition, 1994
- ISBN: 0-89793-158-0
- Publisher: Hunter House, Alameda, CA, (510) 865-5282
- Author(s): Heinrich, Clark
- Title: Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods
- Publication date: 1995
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- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Author(s): Heinrich, Clark
- Title: Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (US edition of Strange Fruit)
- Publication date: 2002
- ISBN: 0892819979
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd
- Author(s): Henderson, Leigh, and William Glass
- Title: LSD: Still With Us After All These Years
- Publication date: 1994
- ISBN: 0-02-914395-0
- Publisher: Macmillan
- Author(s): Jansen, Karl L. R.
- Title: Ketamine: Dreams and Realities
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- Author(s): Lee, Martin A. and Bruce Shlain
- Title: Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
- Publication date: 1985
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- Publisher: Grove Press, New York
- Author(s): Lenson, David
- Title: On Drugs
- Publication date: 1995
- ISBN: 0-8166-2710-X
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (111 Third Ave. South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520)
- Author(s): Luke, David
- Title: Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience
- Publication date: 2017
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- Publisher: Muswell Hill Press
- Author(s): Lyttle, Thomas (ed.)
- Title: Psychedelics
- Publication date: 1994
- ISBN: 0-9623032-2-4
- Publisher: Barricade Books
- Author(s): Masters, Robert and Jean Houston
- Title: The Psychedelic Experience
- Publication date: 1965
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- Author(s): McKenna, Terence
- Title: Food of the Gods
- Publication date: 1992
- ISBN: 0-553-07868-2
- Publisher: Bantam
- Author(s): McKenna, T. and D. McKenna
- Title: The Invisible Landscape
- Publication date: 1974, reprinted 1994
- ISBN: 0062506358
- Publisher: Harper San Francisco (reprint)
- Author(s): Metzner, R., J. C. Callaway and C. Grob (eds)
- Title: Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
- Publication date: April 1999
- ISBN: 1560251603
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
- Author(s): Ott, Jonathan
- Title: Ayahuasca Analogues
- Publication date: 1994
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- Publisher: Natural Products Co., Kennewick, WA (available from Johathan Ott Books, P. O. Box 1251, Occidental, CA 95465)
- Author(s): Ott, Jonathan
- Title: The Age of Entheogens
- Publication date: 1995
- ISBN: 0-9614234-7-1
- Publisher: Natural Products Co., Kennewick, WA
- Author(s): Palmer, Cynthia, and Michael Horowitz (eds.)
- Title: Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady
- Publication date: 1982
- ISBN: 0-688-01385-6
- Publisher: Quill
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- Author(s): Pickover, Clifford
- Title: Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
- Publication date: 2005
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- Publisher: Smart Publications
- Author(s): Rätsch, Christian (ed.)
- Title: Gateway to Inner Space
- Publication date: 1989
- ISBN: 1-85327-037-7
- Publisher: Prism Press, U.K.
- Author(s): Ruck, C.A.P., B.D. Staples and C. Heinrich
- Title: The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist;
- Publication date: 2001
- ISBN: 0-89089-924-X
- Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC
- Author(s): Saunders, Nicholas
- Title: E for Ecstasy
- Publication date: 1993
- ISBN: 0-9501628-9-2
- Publisher:
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Saunders, Nicholas
- Title: Ecstasy and the Dance Culture
- Publication date: 1995
- ISBN: 0-9501628-9-2
- Publisher:
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Siegel, Ronald K.
- Title: Intoxication
- Publication date: 1989
- ISBN: 0-671-69192-9
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster Inc.), New York)
- Author(s): Shulgin, Alexander and Ann Shulgin
- Title: PIHKAL: Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved
- Publication date: 1991
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- Publisher: Transform Press, P. O. Box 13675, Berkeley, CA 94712
Banned in Australia
- Author(s): Shulgin, Alexander and Ann Shulgin
- Title: TIHKAL: Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved
- Publication date: 1997
- ISBN: 0-9630096-9-9
- Publisher: Transform Press, P. O. Box 13675, Berkeley, CA 94712
- Author(s): Stevens, Jay
- Title: Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
- Publication date: 1987
- ISBN: 0-87113-076-9
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
- Author(s): Stolaroff, Myron J.
- Title: Thanatos to Eros: 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration
- Publication date: 1994
- ISBN: 3-86135-453-5
- Publisher: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Postfach 11 03 68, 10833 Berlin, Germany
- Author(s): Stolaroff, Myron J.
- Title: The Secret Chief: Conversations with a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement
- Publication date: 1997
- ISBN: 0-9660019-1-5
- Publisher: MAPS, 2121 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 220, Charlotte, NC 28205, (704) 334-1798
- Author(s): Strassman, Rick
- Title: DMT: The Spirit Molecule
- Publication date: January 2001
- ISBN: 0892819278
- Publisher: Inner Traditions International Ltd
- Author(s): Uncle Fester
- Title: Practical LSD Manufacture
- Publication date: 2nd edition, 1997
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- Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (P.O.Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368)
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- Author(s): Wasson, Gordon
- Title: Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
- Publication date:
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- Author(s): Wasson, Gordon
- Title: The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica
- Publication date: 1980
- ISBN: 0-07-068443-X
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Author(s): Weil, Andrew
- Title: The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon
- Publication date: 1980
- ISBN: 0-395-25723-9
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
This list was compiled by Peter Meyer. See also Entheogen Dot's Entheogenic Books.
Psychedelic books are available from:
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