This is a list of psychedelic literature, works related to psychedelic drugs and the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic literature has also been defined as textual works that arose from the proliferation of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic research with hallucinogens during the 1950s and early 1960s in North America and Europe.

Science + Author Title Published Alexandre Rouhier Le Peyotl: La Plante Qui Fait les Yeux Émerveillés 1927 Stanislav Grof LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine 1975 O. T. Oss and O. N. Oeric (Terence and Dennis McKenna) Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide 1976 Joan Halifax The Human Encounter With Death 1977 Peter Stafford Psychedelics Encyclopedia 1977, 1983, 1992 Edward F. Anderson Peyote: The Divine Cactus 1980 Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness 1981 Albert Most (Ken Nelson) Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert 1984 Stanislav Grof Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy 1985 Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story) 1990 Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennet The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives 1992 Jonathan Ott Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History 1993 Nicholas Saunders E for Ecstasy 1993 Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation) 1997 Myron Stolaroff The Secret Chief 1997 Stanislav Grof The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness 1998 Rick Strassman DMT: The Spirit Molecule 2000 Daniel Pinchbeck Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism 2003 Peter Stafford Psychedelics 2003 Stanislav Grof When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities 2006 Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, and Paul F. Daley The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds 2011 James Fadiman The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys 2011 Michael Pollan How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 2018 Mike Jay Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic 2019 Rachel Nuwer I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World 2023

Anthropology + Author Title Published Peter T. Furst Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens 1972 Peter T. Furst Hallucinogens and Culture 1976 Allan D. Coult Psychedelic Anthropology: The Study of Man Through the Manifestation of the Mind 1977 Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens 1973 Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use 1979 Richard Evans Schultes Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia 1984 Jeremy Narby The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge 1988 Dale Pendell Pharmako/Gnosis 2005 John A. Rush Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience 2013 Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science: Cultural Perspectives 2018 Mike Marinacci Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches 2023

Subjective effects + Author Title Published Kurt Beringer Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise (Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation) 1927 Heinrich Klüver Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects 1928 Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception 1954 Aldous Huxley Heaven and Hell 1956 Alan Watts Joyous Cosmology 1962 William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg The Yage Letters 1963 Carlos Castaneda The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 1968 John C. Lilly Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer 1968 John C. Lilly The Center of the Cyclone 1972 Aldous Huxley Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience 1977 Albert Hofmann LSD: My Problem Child (LSD – Mein Sorgenkind) 1979/1980 Terence McKenna True Hallucinations 1993 John C. Lilly The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography 1996 Don Lattin The Harvard Psychedelic Club 2010 Tao Lin Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change 2018

Political possibilities + Author Title Published Martin A. Lee Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion 1985 Ben Sessa To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic 2015

Inspired by psychedelic experience + Author Title Published Ernst Jünger Visit to Godenholm 1952 Aldous Huxley Island 1962 Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead 1964 Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1965 Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 1968 Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) Be Here Now 1971 Thaddeus Golas The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment 1971 Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1971 Duncan Fallowell Satyrday 1986 Terence McKenna Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge 1992 Donald Dunbar Eyelid Lick 2012 William Leonard Pickard The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments 2015

Periodicals

Psychedelic magazines DoubleBlind Mag Dragibus Magazine The Entheogen Review High Frontiers Psychedelic Magazine Psychedelic Monographs and Essays

Academic journals British Journal of Psychiatry Drugs and Alcohol Review Drugs and Alcohol Today Drug Science, Policy and Law Harm Reduction Journal International Journal of Drug Policy Journal of Drug Issues Journal of European Neuropsychopharmacology Journal of Psychopharmacology Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology

Publishers Psychedelic Press

See also List of books and publications related to the hippie subculture List of psychedelic documentaries List of New Age topics Psychedelic art Psychedelic film List of psychedelic journals List of psychedelic news and media organizations Erowid

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Further reading