Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
10 best books like Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca (Ralph Metzner): Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture, Shakkai: Women of the Sacred Garden, Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism, The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth, Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies, Taoism Way Beyond Seeking, The Psychotropic Mind: The World According to Ayahuasca and Iboga, The Stone Roses: War and Peace
| Author | Richard Evans Schultes |
| ISBN | 0892819790 |
World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.
• Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.
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| Author | Mike Jay |
| ISBN | 1594773939 |
An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals
• Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world’s greatest medical history collections
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"Words are a sacred tool and must be honored as such. When used carefully, words have magical healing properties. When used to judge, to hate, or to separate, words are deadly. The words you will be using in this workbook are your basic tools for healing on this journey. Treat them with respect. Honor...
| Author | Joan Borysenko |
| ISBN | 0446670154 |
Get cheered up reading the wisdom of the ancients, including popular wits like Jesus, Buddha, Rumi, and Mohammed. First place I read Rumi's stunning stanza:
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People...
| Author | Stanley I. Greenspan |
| ISBN | 0201407264 |
Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience into a definitive guide...
| Author | Michael Harner |
| ISBN | 0195016491 |
This is a collection of ten anthropological studies that explore the use of hallucinogens in shamanism. Michael Harner serves as the book’s editor, and does a good job of including studies that provide different sets of information to the reader.
I think I first heard about this book from...
Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies
| Author | John Hogue |
| ISBN | 1852309598 |
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Taoism Way Beyond Seeking
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0804832641 |
"Although his famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." This volume in the "Love of Wisdom" library focuses on the more playful and artistic aspects of Taoism. Essays include "Being in the Way", "The Philosophy...
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1594773122 |
Conversations on shamanism and mind-altering plants by filmmaker Jan Kounen, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, and writer/filmmaker Vincent Ravalec
• Explores how ayahuasca and iboga are tools for communicating with other life-forms
• Offers insights into the role this indigenous...
The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.
The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album went double platinum. It was a recording that is still often listed as...
| 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...
| Author | Benny Shanon |
| ISBN | 0199252939 |
This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, & analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective....
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys To Sacred Realms
More and more Ayahuasca has come to the attention of the Western media. Used by the shamans of Peru , the rituals and practices around this psychoactive plant-based brew date back 50-70,000 years as evidenced by rock and cave paintings found the world over. Through their use of Ayahuasca, Shamans establish...
Tripping : An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
| Author | Charles Hayes |
| ISBN | 0140195742 |
Taking a balanced, objective approach, the book depicts a broad spectrum of altered states, from the sublime to the terrifying. Included are fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life. Supplemental essays...
The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia
| Author | Anna Reid |
| ISBN | 0802776760 |
The fascinating history of an unknown people
A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shaman's Coat tells the story of some of the world's least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Russia's equivalent to the Native Americans or Australian Aborigines, they divide into...
Hidden Dangers: Mexico on the Brink of Disaster
Mexico is undergoing economic and political changes that lie like landmines ready to explode beneath Uncle Sam's footsteps.
By the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century Mexico-United States relations had begun to shred. The leaders of the two countries shared a master-servant...
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.”...
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 1594772827 |
Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of the unconscious, including two new realms still...
Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0892817585 |
Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that...
Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development
| Author | Neal M. Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 1594772509 |
Psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts for emotional and spiritual transformation
• Explores the latest medical research on the healing powers of entheogens
• Reveals the crucial role of tribal and shamanic wisdom in psychedelic medicine
• Provides guidelines...
Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
An investigation into experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings
• Examines how contact with alien life-forms can be obtained through the “inner space” dimensions of our minds
• Presents evidence that other worlds experienced through...
| 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...
The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning
| Author | Simon G. Powell |
| ISBN | 1594774056 |
How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life
• Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin experience
• Explains how sacred mushrooms help restore our connection to the natural intelligence of Nature...
