List of psychedelic literature

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.[1]

Science

Author	Title	Published
Stanislav Grof	LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine	1975
Joan Halifax	The Human Encounter With Death	1977
Peter Stafford	Psychedelics Encyclopedia	1977
Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof	Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness	1981
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
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

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	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

Subjective effects

Author	Title	Published
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	1983
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

• Erowid
• How to Change Your Mind (miniseries)
• List of New Age topics
• Psychedelic art
• Psychedelic film

References

1. Dickins, Robert John (September 2012). The Birth of Psychedelic Literature: Drug Writing and the rise of LSD Therapy 1954 – 1964 (PDF) (Master's thesis). University of Exeter. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

Further reading

• Banco, Lindsey Michael (2013). Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1136096907.
• Dickens, Robert (2014). "Psychedelic Formations in Literature". In Adams, Cameron; Luke, David; Waldstein, Anna; Sessa, Ben; King, David (eds.). Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1583947715.
• McLoughlin, Kate, ed. (2019). British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107129573.
• Shipley, Morgan (2015). Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1498509107.