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"Timothy Leary - Pied-Piper of Psychedelia - charmed youth worldwide with his mantra: "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out"." "Written in the psychedelic era, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out is Timothy Leary at his best, beckoning with humor and irreverence, a visionary of individual empowerment, personal responsibility and spiritual awakening."--BOOK JACKET.
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PBS Distribution
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[2023]
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Hallucinogenic drugs, popularly called psychedelics, have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering substances, both natural and synthetic, and discovering that they can have profoundly positive clinical impacts, helping patients struggling with a range of afflictions from addiction to depression and PTSD.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried on with the experiment, advancing a fascinating alchemy called psychedelic Buddhism. Many think exploration with psychedelics and Buddhism faded...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2023]
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"Once demonized and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'breakthrough therapy' in treating mental illness, used to heal trauma, conquer addiction, and enhance well-being. But as Andy Mitchell reveals, this approach to psychedelics is overhyped, and most importantly, neglects what is so unusual and valuable about them: the psychedelic experience itself. In Ten Trips, Mitchell takes ten different drugs in ten diverse locations--including...
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2018
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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
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One of the most important relationships that human beings have with plants is changing our consciousness-consider the plants that give us coffee, tea, chocolate, and nicotine. Sacred Bliss challenges traditional attitudes about cannabis by tracing its essential role in the spiritual and curative traditions in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from prehistory to the present day. In highlighting the continued use of cannabis around...
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Winner of the Compton Crook Award
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor.
In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is...
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In this book written in the final years of preparation for his "definitive journey", anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.
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Park Street Press
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[2017]
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"Explores the potential of psychedelics as medicine and the intersections of politics, science, and psychedelics. Explores the tumultuous history of psychedelic research, the efforts to restore psychedelic therapies, and the links between psychiatric drugs and mental illness. Offers non-technical summaries of the most recent, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies with MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca Includes the work of Rick Doblin, Stanislav...
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Plume
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[2014]
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It's no secret that psychedelic drugs have the ability to cast light on the miraculous reality hidden within our psyche. Yet while LSD and MDMA (better know as Ecstasy) have proven extraordinarily effective in treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD, the drugs remain illegal for the millions who might benefit from them. Acid Test is at once a personal story of intertwining lives against an epic backdrop and a compelling argument for the unprecedented...
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The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret medical experiments of the 1950s and '60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions...
17) Joe
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Olive Films
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[2018]
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English
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Joe Curran is the titular everyman and unabashed hippie-hater. Joe, who equates hippies with everything un-American, finds a kindred spirit in Bill Compton, an advertising executive who makes Joe's acquaintance at a neighborhood bar, boasting that he killed a drug-dealing hippie. Bill, pressed for facts by the intrigued Joe, recants saying that he was merely joking. However, when a news report confirms the incident, vigilante justice akin to Taxi...
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St. Martin's Press
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2020
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English
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"A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's...
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Destiny Books
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[1994]
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English
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Acclaimed environmentalist, teacher, and activist Perkins travels widely, writing and lecturing on the importance of indigenous cultures to the survival of the planet. Here he takes fellow travelers deep into the jungles of Ecuador, to the home of the Shuar tribe and their healing shamans, or curanderos. "A masterly and understanding exploration of shamanic inner thinking".--Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D., Harvard Univerity. (Inner Traditions International)...
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