Suggestions for psychedelic readings?

Hey everyone.

Today I purchased TIHKAL and was surprised at some of the content in the book. I thought it would be about 99.999% chemistry based with descriptions of Shulgin's trials filling in the rest. I read about 20 pages in and also did some skimming throughout the book. I enjoyed reading his take on the different levels/parts of the psychedelic experience. "The void"/ego-loss is something I like reading and talking about. I liked his take, but was left with wanting more.


What book would you guys suggest for information on the void and the rest of the experience? I know of some books: The Psychedelic Experience, The doors of perception, etc. But, these are mainstream. I thought that there might be a lesser known title that is a better read or more informative. I am going through a cheap-skate phase and none of these are at any library. So, I am seeking help to in finding an in depth read.


I don't know, I guess I have trouble remembering, describing and verbalizing the experience. I guess I am looking for what exactly is.... uhhh... happening. It's sort of an existence I had no awareness of. No sense of positive or negative, no thoughts of "I" or me... not a feeling of "it's never going to end," but a feeling of eternity ( as if this "place" is how it always was and always will be, but not from the perspective of this reality's me.

So, after typing and reading that, I can say that I not only do not possess the ability to describe it, but I feel as if there is much more to it. I guess that 'much more' is what I am looking to read.



Sank you! Yay.

 

you only need to read one book

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/jcbody.htm

 

Go read A PB Smith TR..

 

Breaking open the head-Daniel Pinchbeck
Food of the Gods-Terrence Mckenna
Supernatural-Graham Hancock (more of an anthropology view)
Tryptamine Palace-James Oroc (mainly about 5-me0-dmt)
The Essential Psychedelic Guide- D.M.Turner

While its not specifically about psychedelics, The mission of art-Alex Grey is a worthwhile read too.

 

Amazing Dope Tales by Stephen Gaskin. Like other recommendations, it's about psychedelic experience and it also is psychedelic.

 

I was talking with someone today about working in an emergency department and how it’s possible to take (literally) just a moment or not even that, just in the way you be, to be nice; to bring some confidence and comfort to people at the edge of existence – and people going beyond that.

And that’s the sort of thing I learned from Stephen Gaskin – he affirmed the bedrock reality that we are all One and we ought to behave that way. Anyone who's gotten high understands that. And it's a way of being high. It doesn’t matter if you’re just hanging out, or a student, or a farmer, a baker, a lawyer, a pastor, a merchant, whatever. How we be is what matters.

Imagine (it's them days, again), being in some level of enlightenment with unlimited orange barrels, and coming across a teacher in a state of enlightenment. I was already committed to not wasting my life (hence wasn’t working) when I started reading Monday Night Class by Gaskin. Out of those things and my wife, grew a life not wasted. I’m not kidding. That’s what LSD and Stephen Gaskin did to me.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I must now decide which one to buy first.

Thanks again.

 

www.lavondyss.com/donut/guide/toc.html

Here is some of the D.M. Turner one free!

 

See Writer's post (#2) and there's a book link - lots of good things, including Doors of Perception, LSD - My Problem Child, and so on. I'm reading The Man Who Turned on the World which has long been on my list.

This was the deepest drug state. Things became confused as to time and sequence. I have almost no recall of what I was seeing at this time, and only feeling was important. I was seeing something. It seemed that when I cried a whole new world unfolded and the fascination with the figure was lost. I became part of a vast universe, drawing my energy from the earth. The order of things and in things became very clear. Love and hate were very important as I entered this state and seemed to be clawing at my back in order to gain control of the very core of me, a brilliant spinning core of energy. From here, probably as a result of being able to cry. I began contemplating the infinite sorrow of being alone. I felt, however, that infinite sorrow was the key to open the door of understanding, like washing the eyes so you could see. I felt if you could suffer an infinite amount of sorrow and be patient enough to wait an eternity, you could understand the meaning of things. However, for me in this state, finding the real meaning of the world no longer seemed important, but only being part of it myself, a dot in the cosmos, and feeling the complete harmony of everything, both inside and outside, and knowing that because there was such complete order I did not have to worry about myself. There was a sense of a lack of gravity and I was spinning, or rather spinning and floating at the same time around the earth, something like a satellite. I felt comfortable here in spite of the knowledge that from here I could not communicate with others because all people were One and a part of the vast energy of the world, as I was. Energy simply is; it exists but has no capacity or wish of communication; it has no way of communicating. Death of the body was not important here. It was a very wonderful feeling to be able to give my energy back to the earth where it had originally come from.

Clearly, after such an experience there could be no return to a culture based on authority and blind surrender to a regime where personal opinion is largely erroneous.

This from the guy who turned Leary on to lsd.

 

Thats Michael Hollingshead isn't it?

 

Don't know if I should be flattered or afraid.

 

some nice chunks of that:

The active and the passive are two phases of the same act. A seed, floating in its white sunburst of down, drifts across the sky, sighing with the sound of a jet plane invisible above. I catch it by one hair between thumb and index finger, and am astonished to watch this little creature actually wiggling and pulling as if it were struggling to get away. Common sense tells me that this tugging is the action of the wind, not of the thistledown. But then I recognize that it is the "intelligence" of the seed to have just such delicate antennae of silk that, in an environment of wind, it can move. Having such extensions, it moves itself with the wind. When it comes to it, is there any basic difference between putting up a sail and pulling an oar? If anything, the former is a more intelligent use of effort than the latter. True, the seed does not intend to move itself with the wind, but neither did I intend to have arms and legs.

...

I trace myself back through the labyrinth of my brain, through the innumerable turns by which I have ringed myself off and, by perpetual circling, obliterated the original trail whereby I entered this forest. Back through the tunnels—through the devious status-and-survival strategy of adult life, through the interminable passages which we remember in dreams—all the streets we have ever traveled, the corridors of schools, the winding pathways between the legs of tables and chairs where one crawled as a child, the tight and bloody exit from the womb, the fountainous surge through the channel of the penis, the timeless wanderings through ducts and spongy caverns. Down and back through ever-narrowing tubes to the point where the passage itself is the traveler—a thin string of molecules going through the trial and error of getting itself into the right order to be a unit of organic life. Relentlessly back and back through endless and whirling dances in the astronomically proportioned spaces which surround the original nuclei of the world, the centers of centers, as remotely distant on the inside as the nebulae beyond our galaxy on the outside.

 

It is, PB. Pretty good (not great) book and it's free.

 

http://www.leftinthedark.org.uk/Left In The Dark-Tony Wright and Graham Gynn..im convinced that this book has some VERY important information that will change the world.. and I think everyone needs to read it ASAP.

And everything by Terence McKenna of course is a must read...many don't seem to understand this man..but he's really fucking genius

 

If you want something that isn't new-age crock, try Psychadelic Information Theory by James L. Kent. http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/ebook/index.htm

 

Good read

 

Check out many of the books mentioned here, many are amazing: https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=5738

i'd read everything by McKenna, and listen to his talks, as well as Robert Anton Wilson (particularly cosmic trigger and prometheus rising) and Tim Leary...hmm what else..tryptamine palace is good..pinchbecks books are pretty interesting too..

Wizard of the Upper Amazon is absolutely amazing and a must read..as is Ayahuasca in my Blood, by peter gorman..both are unbelievably deep and inspiring books on ayahuasca..the former is an account of manual cardova rios who was kindapped in the early 1900's and trained as a tribes chief and shaman..

The cosmic serpent by jeremy narby is excellent as well..and i especially loved rick strassmans book on his DMT research, and the one him and 3 other neuroscientists/shamans collaborated on- called inner paths to outer space

 

The man who turned on the world.
Lsd my problem child.