Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

9 best books like Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Richard Evans Schultes): Man and His Symbols, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, One River, Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching, True Hallucinations

Man and His Symbols

Author	C.G. Jung
ISBN	0440351839

My university professors never introduced me to Carl Jung. I understand why, I guess, but it's a shame that I didn't read Jung's work until now. Jungian psychology is amazing. It addresses the unconscious and the "self"/"psyche" in a unique and enlightening way. And, unlike most other psychologists,...

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0060595183

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception ...

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

Author	Terence McKenna
ISBN	0553371304

This book is trash.

I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.

I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...

LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

Author	Albert Hofmann
ISBN	0966001982

This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. We follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related...

DMT: The Spirit Molecule

Author	Rick Strassman
ISBN	0892819278

A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences.
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT: A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted US DEA-approved...

One River

Author	Wade Davis
ISBN	0684834960

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the...

Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming

Author	Peter Gorman
ISBN	1452882908

Finally, after 25 years of incubation, Peter Gorman's book is out. Ayahuasca in My Blood - 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming concerns his longstanding relationship with the Amazonian visionary medicine. Here's what people have said about it:
"Unlike many writing about ayahuasca, Peter Gorman knows...

The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching

Author	Dennis J. McKenna
ISBN	0062506358

I really wanted to like this book. It’s the last one I am reviewing for 2009, and I am a huge fan of Terence McKenna. But this one fell short for me.

The Invisible Landscape is a collaborative effort between Terence and Dennis McKenna, known in the psychedelia circuit as the “McKenna brothers.”...

True Hallucinations

Author	Terence McKenna
ISBN	0062506528

Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the Amazon Basin. Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time & mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of down-to-earth reasons...