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Psychedelic literature encompasses a few different topics:

The science of psychedelic drugs

• Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved: A Chemical Love Story (PiHKAL) by Alexander Shulgin and wife Ann Shulgin
• Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved: The Continuation (TiHKAL) by Alexander Shulgin and wife Ann Shulgin
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
• Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History by Jonathan Ott
• LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
• Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness (1981)by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science (1984) Edited by Stanislav Grof
• Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy (1985)by Stanislav Grof
• Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution (1988) Edited by Stanislav Grof with Marjorie L. Valier
• The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy (1988)by Stanislav Grof
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (1989) Edited by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformative Crisis (1990)by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof
• The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives (1992) by Stanislav Grof with Hal Zina Bennet
• Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying (1993) by Stanislav Grof
• The Thirst for Wholeness: Attachment, Addiction and the Spiritual Path (1994) by Christina Grof
• The Transpersonal Vision (1998) book and audio by Stanislav Grof
• Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research (1975) by Stanislav Grof
• The Human Encounter With Death (1977) with Joan Halifax
• The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (1998) by Stanislav Grof
• The Consciousness Revolution: A Transatlantic Dialogue (1999) by Stanislav Grof with Peter Russell and Ervin Laszlo. Foreword by Ken Wilber
• Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (2000)by Stanislav Grof
• Caterpillar Dreams (2004) by Stanislav Grof with Melody Sullivan
• When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (2006) by Stanislav Grof
• The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death (2006) by Stanislav Grof
• The Secret Chief by Myron Stolaroff

Subjective effects of psychedelic drugs

• Harris, Joel R. Into the heart of the Amazon in search of Truth.2008 ISBN 978-1440418488
• The Journeybook: Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness edited by Rak Razam
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Shivviti by Ka-Tzetnik aka Yehiel De-Nur
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
• Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts
• aya: a shamanic odyssey by Rak Razam

Political Possibilities of psychedelic drugs

• Island by Aldous Huxley
• Wisdom's Maw by Todd Brendan Fahey

Direct inspiration of the psychedelic experience

• The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert; based on Karma-Glin-Pa Bar Do Thos Grol
• Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
• Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil
• The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas

Psychedelic Magazines

• Psychozoic Press
• High Frontiers
• Psychedelic Monographs and Essays
• The Entheogen Review
• The Psychedelic Review

Further reading

• Stafford, Peter. (2003). Psychedelics. Ronin Publishing, Oakland, California. ISBN 0-914171-18-6.

See also

• Erowid

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