Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception reveals the mind’s remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness

James Fadiman, a prominent psychedelic researcher with 40 years of experience, wrote the best available guide to using psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use.

Eye-opening conversations with Leo Zeff, a pioneer in the underground psychedelic therapy movement who trained hundreds of therapists in the healing use of psychedelics.

Created in the psychedelic movement’s early years by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), this a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries.

Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life–respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies, young ravers, and accomplished writers.

Acid Test tells the stories of Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of MAPS, who has been fighting government prohibition of psychedelics for more than thirty years; Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist at the forefront of psychedelic therapy research; and his patient Nicholas Blackston, a former Marine who is recovering from post-traumatic stress.

Short for “Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved,” PiHKAL is a monumental classic by celebrated psychedelic chemist Alexander Shulgin and his wife Ann. Half autobiography and half drug cookbook, it’s remarkable for unleashing so many new psychedelics on the world.

In this sequel to the iconic drug cookbook PiHKAL, the Shulgins set out to synthesize and explore dozens of new chemicals — this time, the tryptamines.

Can Psychedelics do for psychiatry what the microscope did for biology and the telescope to astronomy? Psychiatrist Dr. Ben Sessa explores cutting-edge research, revealing these compounds as powerful healing agents for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, social anxiety, cluster headaches, and more.

The Psychedelic Anthology is a collection of real-life psychedelic experiences shared from all over the world. Through these 36 incredibly powerful stories, this book series hopes to humanize these medicines and reintroduce their importance to mankind.

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.” More than an artifact, it is both a riveting memoir of Watts’s personal experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred.

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known, in the name of science. Many volunteers reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels, and spirits. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives.