Recommended Reads

This is a list of books and documentaries that we recommend to read and/or watch to gain more understanding about psychedelic and life in general which can be helpful in your preparation and/or integration process.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle

Be Here Now – Ram Dass

The Essential Alan Watts – Alan W. Watts, Mark Watts (Foreword)

The Way of Zen – Alan W. Watts

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence – Michael Pollan, also a documentary series with the same name on Netflix

DMT – The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research Into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences – Rick Strassman, also in a documentary with the same name

The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection – Michael Alan Singer

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael A. Singer

The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name – Brian C. Muraresku

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom – Rick Hanson

Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana – Mike Crowley, Ann Shulgin (Foreword)

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle – Mark Wolynn

The Doors of Perception a mescaline inspired philosophical essay – Aldous Huxley

The Red Book: Libre Novus – Carl G. Jung

LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven – Christopher M. Bache

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe – Robert Lanza, Bob Berman

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance and Dreams – Debbie Ford

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior – Chögyam Trungpa

Dao De Ching (道德經) an ancient book of wisdom

Heart Sutra (心經) translation by Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditations a profound philosophy book by a Roman emperor – Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond (Translator)

Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece – Three Initiates, William Walker Atkinson, Tre Iniziati (pseudonym)