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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon

10 best books like Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon (Stephan V. Beyer): Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Beyond the Occult, Shamans Through Time, The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castañeda, The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities, The Peyote Dance, Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted, Urban Shaman, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia

Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
AuthorGraham Hancock
ISBN1932857400
Less than 50,000 years ago humans had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic change, described by scientists as 'the greatest riddle in human history', all the skills & qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully...
Beyond the Occult
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN0881845205
Colin Winson is always a good read, provided you don't take him too seriously: his style is always chatty and pleasant, and if you are interested in things occult, then he is a good introduction to the subject.

My edition of this work was published in 2008, but it is essentially a reprint of the...
Shamans Through Time
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1585423629
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
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...
The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God
AuthorRupert Sheldrake
ISBN0892815108
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's preeminent biologists, has revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing universe--one with its own inherent memory. In The Rebirth of Nature, Sheldrake urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining...
When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities
AuthorStanislav Grof
Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof—the psychiatric researcher who co-founded transpersonal psychology—believes...
The Peyote Dance
AuthorAntonin Artaud
ISBN0374230900
Artaud received a grant to travel to Mexico, where he met his first (Mexican) Parisian friend, the Painter Federico Cantú in 1936 when he gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. He also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and experimented with peyote, recording his experiences,...
Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
AuthorMichael Stebbins
ISBN1403993424
In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surrounding some of the most controversial topics in science and health. It says what most scientists and politicians are afraid to say about what research...
Urban Shaman
AuthorSerge Kahili King
ISBN0671683071
Now, even if you can't get out into the wilderness or undertake a long apprenticeship, you can learn to practice the art of shamanism. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation - in contrast to the...
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...
The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
AuthorJohn C. Lilly
ISBN1579510388
In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called them. The book explains how he derived his theory of the operations of the human mind and brain from...
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience
AuthorRobert E.L. Masters
ISBN0892818972
One of the most important books written on the effects of LSD on the human psyche.

• Its authoritative research has great relevance to the current debate on drug legalization.

• Prolific authors Robert Masters and Jean Houston are pioneer figures in the field of transpersonal...
The Boy Who Saw True: The Time-Honoured Classic of the Paranormal
AuthorCyril Scott
ISBN1844131505
He asked me if I believed in ghosts.
And I said, yes.
Then he wanted to know if I'd ever seen one, and I said, lots.
'Weren't you afraid?'
'Not when they're nice ghosts,' said I, 'but I don't like nasty ones ...'

'The Boy Who Saw True differs from all the hundreds of books I have read...
Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming
AuthorPeter Gorman
ISBN1452882908
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...
Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings
AuthorCharles T. Tart
ISBN0471845604
Dr Charles T. Tart (b. '37) is known for work on the nature of consciousness & altered states, as a founder of transpersonal psychology & for research in scientific parapsychology. His Altered States of Consciousness ('69) & Transpersonal Psychologies ('75), are widely used texts instrumental...
The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
AuthorBenny Shanon
ISBN0199252939
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
AuthorDon Jose Campos
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...
Hallucinogenic Plants: A Golden Guide
AuthorRichard Evans Schultes
ISBN0307243621
What are hallucinogenic plants? How do they affect mind and body? Who uses them - and why? This unique Golden Guide surveys the role of psychoactive plants in primitive and civilized societies from early times to the present. The first nontechnical guide to both the cultural significance and physiological...
Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives
AuthorMario Beauregard
ISBN0062071564
In Brain Wars, acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the mind-body debate: research showing that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the brain—but are not generated by it.

Following...
Plan, Plant, Planet
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN3925817352
McKenna says we are infantilized, we are told you can wonder around within the sanctioned playpin of ordinary consciousness and we have some intoxicants over here if you want to mess yourself up: scotch, tobacco, red meat, sugar, television… but, the boundary dissolving hallucinogens that give...
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