Hallucinogens and Shamanism
10 best books like Hallucinogens and Shamanism (Michael Harner): Hallucinations, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Leaves of Grass, Timaeus, Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, The Divine Spark: A Graham Hancock Reader, Unseen Warfare, Baha'u'llah and the New Era: An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith, The Origins and History of Consciousness
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0307957241 |
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."
As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872204464 |
First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeus is presented along with his 75 page introductory essay, which discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and current issues of interpretation, and provides...
| Author | Thomas Dale Cowan |
| ISBN | 0895948389 |
This inspirational book blends elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and contemporary religious commitments. Drawing on shamanic practices from the world over, SHAMANISM AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE FOR DAILY LIFE addresses the needs of contemporary people who yearn to deepen their own...
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0691119422 |
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 &...
The Divine Spark: A Graham Hancock Reader
| Author | Graham Hancock |
| ISBN | 1938875117 |
Psychedelics and the Pursuit of Consciousness
“I suspect the real breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness are going to come from an entirely different direction. That direction, controversially, has to do with psychedelics—which, as many of the contributors to The Divine...
| Author | Nicodemos the Hagiorite |
| ISBN | 0913836524 |
This spiritual classic was written by Lorenzo Scupoli, a sixteenth-century Venetian priest. Immensely popular in its own day, it was ranked by Francis de Sales with the Imitation of Christ. In the general rapport between Western and Eastern Christendom, it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain,...
Baha'u'llah and the New Era: An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith
| Author | J.E. Esslemont |
| ISBN | 1931847274 |
In this compact work, Esslemont comprehensively yet succinctly sets forth the teachings of Baha'u'llah, the Prophet and Founder of the Baha'i Faith. He outlines the religion's early history; explains the religion's theology; incorporates extracts from Baha'i scripture; and provides information...
The Origins and History of Consciousness
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691017611 |
The first of Erich Neumann's works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students...
The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
| Author | Dionysios Farasiotis |
| ISBN | 1887904166 |
This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various occult techniques. Eventually drawn back to the Faith of his forefathers Orthodox Christianity he visited the ancient monastic republic of Mount...
