I am working on compiling a book list for the Entheogens group that is currently under construction. Did I miss any books? If you can think of anything that is applicable, please feel free to post!

The goal of making this list is to provide an easy to reference list of books for anyone who wishes to study the field of entheogens. It is the hope that making these lists of books for reference will help to open access to these realms of knowledge, for those who choose to seek it.

~Namaste~

Entheogen: A psychoactive substance used for the purpose of inducing a mystical or spiritual experience.

Abbott, F.S., McKenna, Dennis, and Towers, G. H. N., Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors in South American Hallucinogenic Plants, Part I: Tryptamine and Beta-carboline Constituents of Ayahuasca, JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, 10:195-223, 1984a.

Abbott, F.S., McKenna, Dennis, and Towers, G. H. N., Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors in South American Hallucinogenic Plants, Part II: Constituents of Orally-Active Myristicaceous Hallucinogens, JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, 12:179-211, 1984b.

Abel, Earnest, MARIJUANA, THE FIRST TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS, Phenum Press, New York, 1980.

Aldrich, Dr. Michael, Cannabis and its Derivatives, HIGH TIMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS, Trans High Corp., New York, 1978.

Allegro, John M., THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS, 1970.

Amaringo, Pablo and Luna, Luis Eduardo, AYAHUASCA VISIONS: THE RELIGIONS ICONOGRAPHY OF A PERUVIAN SHAMAN, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1991.

Andrew and Vinkenoog, THE BOOK OF GRASS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF INDIAN HEMP, Peter Owen Ltd., London, 1967.

Bennett, Chris & Osburn, Judy and Lynn, GREEN GOLD – THE TREE OF LIFE: MARIJUANA IN MAGIC AND RELIGION, Access Unlimited, 1995.

Benet, Sula, Early Diffusion and Folk Uses of Hemp, CANNABIS AND CULTURE, V. Rubin, ed., The Hague: Moutan, 1975.

Bigwood, Jeremy and OTT, Jonathan, eds., TEONANACATL HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS OF NORTH AMERICA, Madrona Publishers, Seattle, 1978

Budge, E. A. Wallis, THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE CRAFT OF THE HERBALIST.

Burke, “Pot and Presidents,” Green Egg, Ca. June 21, 1975.

CHINESE MEDICINAL HERBS, compiled by Li Shih-Chen, translated by F. Porter Smith, MD, and G.A. Stuart, MD; Georgetown Press, San Francisco, 1973.

Chopra, G.S. “Man and Marijuana,” International Journal of the Addict, 1969, 4, 215-247.

Conrad, Chris, HEMP: LIFELINE TO THE FUTURE, Creative Xpressions, Los Angeles, CA, 1992.

Crowley, Aleister, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH, 1912.

Cunningham, Scot, CUNNINGHAM’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAGICAL HERBS, 1990.

Drake, Bill, THE CONNOISSEUR’S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA, Straight Arrow Books, 1971.

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene, VISIONARY VINE: PSYCHEDELIC HEALING IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON, Chandler, San Francisco, 1972.

Emboden, William, Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L: A Historical-Ethnographic Survey, FLESH OF THE GODS, pp. 214-236.

EXCERPTS FROM THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION REPORT WITH CENTENNIAL THOUGHTS ON INDIAN HELP AND DOPE FIENDS OF OLD ENGLAND, compiled by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D., Last Gasp, 1994.

First, Peter J., HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE, Chandler and Sharp Publishers, Inc., 1976.

Glowa, John R., THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS, Chelsea House Pub., NY., New Haven, Philadelphia, 1986.

Grinspoon, L., MD; and Bakalar J., MARIHUANA: THE FORBIDDEN MEDICINE, 1993.

Grof, Stanislav, LSD PSYCHOTHERAPY, Hunter House, Pomona, CA, 1980.

Haining, Peter, THE HASHISH CLUB VOL I, London, 1975.

Hayter, Alethea, OPIUM AND THE ROMATIC IMAGINATION, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1968.

Herer, Jack, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES, Hemp Publishing, Van Nuys, Ca, 1990.

HIGH TIMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS; Stonehill Publishing Co., Trans High Corp., New York, 1978.

Hobhouse, Henry, SEEDS OF CHANGE: FIVE PLANTS THAT TRANSFORMED MANKIND, Harper & Row, New York, 1985.

Hoffman, Albert, LSD MY PROBLEM CHILD, Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1983.

Hofman, Albert and Schultes, Richard E., PLANTS OF THE GODS – ORIGIN OF HALLUCINOGENIC USE, McGraw-Hill Book Co. [UK] Limited, Maidenhead, England, 1979.

Hofman, Albert and Schultes, Richard E., PLANTS OF THE GODS – THEIR SACRED, HEALING AND HALLUCINOGENIC POWERS, Healing Arts Press, Rochester, VT, 1992.

Holland, J., ed., ECSTASY: THE COMPLETE GUIDE: A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF MDMA, Park Street Press, Rochester, VT, 2001.

Hoye, David, CANNABIS ALCHEMY: THE ART OF MODERN HASHMAKING, High Times/Level Press, 1976.

Huxley, Aldous, MOKSHA: WRITINGS ON PSYCHEDELICS AND THE VISIONARY EXPERIENCE. Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, eds., Stonehill, New York, 1977.

Huxley, Aldous, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, Harper, New York, 1954.

Jacobs, Barry L., HALLUCINOGENS: NEUROCHEMICAL, BEHAVORIAL, AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES, Raven Press, New York, 1984.

Judd, Elizabeth, Hallucinogens and the Origin of Language, SOCIO-LINGUISTIC NEWSLETTER, Vol. II, pp. 7-12, 1980.

Krüger, Henrik, THE GREAT HEROIN COUP: DRUGS, INTELLIGENCE, AND INTERNATIONAL FASCIM, South End Press, Boston, 1980.

La Wall, Charles H., THE CURIOUS LORE OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES THROUGH THE AGES, J. B. Lippincott, 1927.

Leary, Timothy, TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT, Ronin Publishing, 1999.

Leary, Timothy and Metzner, Ralph, THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: A MANUAL BASED ON THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, University Books, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1964.

Lee, Martin A., and Shlain, Bruce, ACID DREAMS: THE CIA, LSD, AND THE SIXTIES REBELLION, Grove Press, New York, 1985.

Lewin, Roger, Stone Age Psychedelia, NEW SCIENTIST, 8 June, pp. 30-34, 1991.

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, THE HASHEESH EATER: BEING PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PYTHAGOREAN, Harper  & Brothers, New York, 1857.

Marijuana and the Bible, Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church.

Matheson, Richard R., THE ETERNAL SEARCH: THE STORY OF MAN AND HIS DRUGS, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1958.

McKenna, Dennis and McKenna, Terence, THE INVISIBLE LANDSCAPE: MIND, HALLUCINOGEN, AND THE I-CHING, HarperOne, 1994.

McKenna, Terence, FOOD OF THE GODS, Bantam, 1992.

McKenna, Terence, THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL: SPECULTIONS ON PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS, UFOS, EVOLUTION, SHAMANISM, THE REBIRTH OF THE GODDESS, AND THE END OF HISTORY, HarperCollins, 1992.

Mortimer, W. Golden, THE HISTORY OF COCA: THE DIVINE PLANT OF THE INCAS, Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library Edition, San Francisco, 1974.

Munn, Henry, The Mushroom of Language, In Michael J. Harner, ed., SHAMANISM AND HALLUCINOGENS, Oxford University Press, London, 1973.

Oeric, O. N. and OSS, O. T., PSILOCYBIN: THE MAGIC MUSHROOM GROWER’S GUIDE, Lux Natura Press, Berkeley, 1976.

Roberts, T., PSYCHOACTIVE SACRAMENTALS: ESSAYS ON ENTHEOGENS AND RELIGION, Council on Spiritual Practices, San Francisco, 2001.

Robertson, Diane, LIVING LONGER WITH HERBS.

Robicsek, Francis, THE SMOKING GODS: TOBACCO IN MAYAN ART, HISTORY, AND RELIGION, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1978.

Rosenthal, Franz, THE HERB: HASHISH VS MEDIEVAL SOCIETY, FJB, 1971.

Rubin, Vera, and Moulton, Lambros Comitas, GANJA IN JAMACIA, The Hague, Paris, 1975.

Smith, H., CLEANSING THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION: THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF ENTHEOGENIC PLANTS AND CHEMICALS, Tarcher/Penguin Putnam, New York, 2000.

Strassman, Rick, DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE, Park Street Press, Rochester, VT, 2001.

Stevens, Jay, STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1987.

Wasson, R. Cordon, PERSEPHONE’S QUEST: ENTHEOGENS AND THE ORIGINS OF RELIGION, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986.

Wasson, R. Cordon, SOMA: DIVINE MUSHROOM OF IMMORTALIY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1971.

Wasson, R. Cordon, THE WONDROUS MUSHROOM: MYCOLATRY IN MESOAMERICA, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986.