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10 best books like A Separate Reality (Carlos Castaneda): Book of the Hopi, The Moon Pool, The I Ching or Book of Changes, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, The Coalwood Way: A Memoir, The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castañeda, Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist, The Way of the Shaman, The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey, The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge

Book of the Hopi
AuthorFrank Waters
ISBN0140045279
In this "strange and wonderful book," some thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona freely reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view of life. The Hopis have kept this view a secret for countless generations, and this book was made possible only as a result of their...
The Moon Pool
AuthorA. Merritt
ISBN0819567078
One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings. Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins from ancient civilizations, the novel chronicles the adventures of a party of explorers who discover...
The I Ching or Book of Changes
AuthorAnonymous
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.

Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning...
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
AuthorDaniel Pinchbeck
ISBN0767907434
A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience.

While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are...
The Coalwood Way: A Memoir
AuthorHomer Hickam
ISBN0440237165
From the #1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich, unforgettable tale. With the same dazzling storytelling that distinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us deeper into the soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its unique way of life is buffeted by forces of time and...
The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castañeda
AuthorVíctor Sánchez
ISBN1879181231
Millions of readers of Carlos Castañeda books have long enjoyed the fantastic teachings of don Juan Matus, the Yaqui shaman from northern México. Now, thanks to the practical techniques based on Castañeda's writings offered here by author Víctor Sánchez--the body as a field of energy, the not-doings...
Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist
AuthorOlga Kharitidi Yahontova
ISBN0062514172
Olga Kharitidi's debut book is a remarkable account of her spiritual adventure in snowbound Siberia. Joining an ailing friend on a spontaneous trip to the Atai Mountains, Dr. Kharitidi is taken into apprenticeship by a native Shaman who guides her through bizarre, magical, and often terrifying experiences...
The Way of the Shaman
AuthorMichael Harner
ISBN0062503731
Harner is the creator of what is called "Core Shamanism" (the ‘shamanism’ and practices of Sandra Ingerman, and Caitlín and John Matthews also fall under the Core Shamanism umbrella). Like Daniel C. Noel and Robert J. Wallis, I believe Harner's teachings are based on cultural appropriation...
The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey
AuthorTaisha Abelar
ISBN0140193669
Highlights:
1. Intent is the power that upholds the universe. It is the force that gives focus to everything. It makes the world happen.

2. We are convinced that a dualism exists in us; the mind is the insubstantial part of ourselves and the body is the concrete part. This division keeps our...
The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge
AuthorFlorinda Donner
ISBN0140195319
For those who have followed Carlos Casteneda and Don Juan Matus, this will be familiar territory. And this comes as no surprise when you learn that the writer, Florinda Donner-Grau, was a disciple Casteneda. This book follows the literary formula that was established by Casteneda very closely. That...
Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda
AuthorAmy Wallace
ISBN1583942068
Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers,...
Caravan of Dreams
AuthorIdries Shah
Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the world's leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating...
The Survivors of the Chancellor
AuthorJules Verne
ISBN1406947318
The Survivors of the Chancellor (Extraordinary Voyages, #13), Jules Verne
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne, about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers...
Bad Twin
AuthorGary Troup
ISBN1401302769
The Barnes & Noble Review
Bad Twin -- a slickly marketed tie-in novel to ABC's hit television show Lost that is being touted as the last novel written by a popular mystery writer who disappeared on Oceanic Flight 815 -- is a terrific pulp noir mystery. While the novel's plotline (a struggling...
The Stone Leopard
AuthorColin Forbes
ISBN0330248170
A good paced and interesting espionage thriller in the classic mode. What links an attempt assassination attempt on the French president and a hit a run at the same spot? Is there any truth to the dying words of the man? Can the WWII communist resistance leader codenamed ‘Leopard’ really be a high...
The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
AuthorPaul Devereux
ISBN0140195408
Many people assume that experimentation with hallucinogens began with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic revolution of the fifties and sixties. In fact, as this illuminating study demonstrates, psychedelics have been used by human societies in every part of the world for ritual and spiritual purposes...
After All These Years
AuthorSusan Isaacs
ISBN0060563737
The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: her nouveau riche husband, Richie, is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA. So, when he's found murdered in their exquisitely appointed kitchen, no one is surprised to find Rosie's prints all over...
Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
AuthorJohn Horgan
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics — and meaning — of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific...
Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation and Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Plants
AuthorJim DeKorne
ISBN1559501103
From the author of The Hydroponic Hot House comes the boldest exploration of psychedelic plants since Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods. DeKorne is a "psychonaut" exploring the "imaginal realms" through Personal experimentation and scholarly research. He guides the reader through the history...
The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God
AuthorMatthew Alper
ISBN1402207484
"A lively manifesto...For the discipline's specific application to the matter at hand, I've seen nothing that matches the fury of The "God" Part of the Brain, which perhaps explains why it's earned something of a cult following." -Salon.com

In this revised cult classic, the author offers...
Undoing Yourself: With Energized Meditation and Other Devices
AuthorChristopher S. Hyatt
ISBN1561840572
Within these pages you will find innumerable practical techniques to transform your life, served up with a large dose of humor and the stick of the Zen Roshi. Who hates Undoing? Stuffed-shirt academicians, do-nothing sweetness-and-light practitioners of cosmic foo-foo, and would-be slave-owners...
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
AuthorMircea Eliade
ISBN0691119422
First published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious & fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two &...
Psychedelics Encyclopedia
AuthorPeter G. Stafford
ISBN0914171518
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