DMT: The Spirit Molecule

by Rick Strassman MD

Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the sixth chakra and by Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the human pineal gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence.

The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby's pioneering work takes the frontier of science another leap forward toward understanding the primary enigma of our time - the role of consciousness in the evolutionary patterns of the universe.

Transfigurations

by Alex Grey

Transfigurations is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Sacred Mirrors, one of the most successful art books of the 1990s. It includes all of Grey's major works completed in the past decade, including the masterful seven-paneled altarpiece Nature of Mind, called "the grand climax of Grey's art" by Donald Kuspit. Grey's portrayals of human beings blend scientific exactitude with visionary depictions of universal life energy, leading us on the soul's journey from material world encasement to recovery of our divinely illuminated core.

Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

by Alex Grey

This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy.

Plants of the Gods

by Richard Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch

Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these 'plants of the gods,' tracing their uses throughout the world and their significance in shaping culture and history.

Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature

by Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. has assembled a diverse group of contributors who provide an exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological and experimental dimensions of Ayahuasca - one aspect of the revival of interest in shamanism and sacred plants as part of the worldwide seeking for a renewal of the spiritual relationship with the natural world.

Ayahuasca Visions

by Pablo Amaringo

Publication of these outstanding paintings of ayahuasca visions experienced by a native medicine man, Pablo Amaringo, and interpreted by the distinguished anthropologist, Luis Eduardo Luna, permits us to understand the unworldly psychic effects of the 'vine of the soul.'

Ayahuasca Reader : Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine

by Luis Luna

The Ayahuasca Reader is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as narratives related by western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts. Some of the material in this Reader has been published before in difficult to find journals and books in a variety of languages. In many cases, the authors have produced their contributions expressly for this anthology. The Ayahuasca Reader represents the most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published.

Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

by Daniel Pinchbeck

Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into the visionary compounds found in sacred plants. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival.

Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants

by Huston Smith

In this book, Smith's historical knowledge and personal experience combine with his literacy in the cognitive sciences to produce the only comprehensive book that has been written for the general public on the mysterious relation between the entheogens, consciousness, and faith. Psychoactive plants have long served as spiritual catalysts, from the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece to the Native American Church and from India's sacred soma to the religious practices emerging from the Amazonian rainforests. In this book, Smith takes us into the heart of modernity's struggle to align historical evidence with what we now know about brain chemistry.

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