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Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJulian Vayne
Vale of Pewsy: Psychedelic Press, 2025.“Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. Informed by cutting-edge science and extensive real-world experience, this book offers practical insights into the skills, techniques, and mindset that every effective trip sitter needs. From preparing the space and setting the tone, to navigating the journey and supporting successful integration, Trip Sitting takes a holistic approach to care. With a strong foundation in ethics and practical experience this guide will help you hold space with clarity, confidence, and compassion, maximising the benefits and minimising the risks when exploring these magical medicines.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid McGowan
: Headpress, 2014.“In the 1960s and early 1970s a dizzying array of musical artists congregated in Laurel Canyon to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Charles Manson was integrated into the scene more than most would care to admit, as well as various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians, and intelligence personnel, happily coexisting alongside a covert military installation. Discover the dark underbelly of a hippie utopia.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Read MoreHunter S. Thompson
London: Harper Perennial, 2005.Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
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The Mind of Plants: Narrative of Vegetal Intelligence
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn C. Ryan; Patricia Vieira; Monica Gagliano
Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2021.“Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world. From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at large has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual teachers and seekers. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence brings together works from all these disciplines and more in a collection of essays that highlights what we know and what we intuit about botanical life. The Mind of Plants, featuring a foreword by Dennis McKenna, is a collection of short essays, narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans. Contributors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times’ best seller Braiding Sweetgrass, Jeremy Narby, John Kinsella, Luis Eduardo Luna, Megan Kaminski and dozens more.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndy Roberts
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2025.“Doctors believed LSD was a panacea for disorders of the mind. The Secret Intelligence Services and Ministry of Defence were confident they could harness the drug’s powers for interrogation and the battlefield. Countercultures celebrated acid as not only a hotline to spiritual experience, but also a wonderland of the senses. Governments decried it. LSD remains protean. Andy Roberts’ Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s. First published in 2008, this new and revised edition benefits from the author’s many years of continued research into psychedelic history and the addition of several appendices.” (publisher’s blurb) The sold out hardcover printing of the revised edition.
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The Psychedelic Therapy Workbook
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Nielson; Ingmar Gorman
Oakland: New Harbinger Publications, 2025.“Research shows the tremendous benefit of psychedelic drugs for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and trauma. This workbook draws on evidence-based harm reduction techniques to help readers experiment with psychedelic substances–on their own, in a group, or with a therapist–and integrate the lessons they’ve learned from psychedelic experiences into daily life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Microdosing Guidebook
Read MoreC. J. Spotswood
New York: Ulysses Press, 2022.A step-by-step manual to improve your physical and mental health through psychedelic medicine.
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Oh Excellent Air Bag: Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799-1920
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdam Green
Cambridge: PDR Press, 2016.“Collection of surreal and striking first-hand accounts of early “laughing gas” intoxication, and the secondary literature they spawned.” (publisher’s blurb) Includes writings by Humphry Davy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William James, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Introduction by Mike Jay.
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Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Dyck; Clancy Cavnar; Patrick Farrell; Ibrahim Gabriell; Beatriz C. Labate; Glauber Loures de Assis
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.“This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics. While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge. Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a series of captivating interviews, this collection taps into women’s networks around the world throughout the 20th century. It reveals some of the sophisticated and creative ways women have influenced our understanding of psychedelics and how they will continue to protect these stories as we face our psychedelic future. Our collection intentionally moves beyond an American set of stories, teasing out networks in Latin America. This collection brings together authors from the Chacruna Institute and Chacruna Latinamerica to engage readers in conversations that move across time and place throughout the Americas. It is the first of its kind to balance non-English contributions through translation of stories exploring different cultural contexts outside the United States, where women have contributed to this enduring history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJustice Rivera
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality-we are living through a political moment when debates about bodily autonomy are at a fever pitch. Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug UseIn the words of leading advocates, service providers, and the scholars whose lives and communities have been harmed by American neo-colonial policies, Body Autonomy offers promising, healing-centered interventions that represent a critical culture shift.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuis Eduardo Luna; Steven F. White
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2016.“The Ayahuasca Reader is an expansive anthology of texts translated from several different languages covering multiple aspects of the ayahuasca experience. The book is a classic in ayahuasca literature and a must read for those interested in learning more about this sacred plant medicine.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Crowley
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2019.“Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to the central role which psychedelics played in Indian religions. It traces their history from the mysterious soma potion, celebrated in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, to amrita, the sacramental drink of Vajrayana Buddhism. Although amrita used in modern Vajrayana ceremonies lacks any psychoactivity, there is copious evidence that the amrita used by the earliest Vajrayana practitioners was a potent entheogen. It is the nature of this psychedelic form of the sacrament which is the central topic of this book. In particular, Secret Drugs of Buddhism attempts to identify the specific ingredients employed in amrita’s earliest formulations. To this end, the book presents evidence from many countries in which the Vajrayana movement flourished. These include Bhutan, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet but special attention is given to India, the land of its origin.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Allies for Awakening: Guidelines for Productive and Safe Experiences with Entheogens
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
El Verano: Four Trees Press, 2022.“This monograph is based on 50 years of experience as a participant-observer in the international underground sub-culture involved with entheogenic, consciousness-expanding substances. The author discusses the uses and values of such substances when the explicit intention or purpose is for spiritual awakening, psychotherapy, healing, increased understanding and the enhancement of creativity. The intent of this documentation is not to prove or promote any particular method or treatment of any condition. The evaluation of entheogens needs to be in terms of how productive these experiences are of healthier approaches to the issues of living in these times, in this world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Alchemical Musings
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
El Verano: Four Trees Press, 2020.“Ralph Metzner first wrote about alchemy when he was in his early 30s. He included a chapter on alchemy in his book Maps of Consciousness, which was published in 1971. In the last few years of his life Ralph recorded his thoughts on some 36 alchemical terms. Over an arc of some 50 years, Ralph worked on the practice of using alchemical processes for inner transformation. This volume of musings combines his earliest writing on alchemy with his last writings on alchemical terms, bookends of an arc of exploration.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Toad and The Jaguar: A Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary Medcine
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
El Verano: Four Trees Press, 2013.Bufo alvarius and 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine. With forewords by Stanislav Grof and Charles Grob. “In this monograph, I relate findings from more than 30 years of experiences and observations with this substance, in various user groups and individuals, both in the US and in Europe. I use the term underground in referring to the explorations with these substances, in the sense that they were hidden – out of respect for the restrictions and prohibitions of mainstream culture. These are ethnographic field reports: first-hand observations from an underground sub-culture, accompanied by the experiences of a selected number of participant-observers. It is important to recognize that in research with these and other so-called psychedelic or entheogenic substances, one cannot limit the observations and reflections solely to their physical and psychological effects. As most of the people cited here emphasize, the experiences with these substances at times can go far beyond their physical and psychological effects into the deepest and highest dimensions of our existence, both the cosmic and the spiritual.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Opium
AU$23.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Moraes; Debra Moraes
Berkeley: Ronin, 2003.“Provides a detailed look at opium today in the context of its long history of use as a therapeutic and recreational drug.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Trauma and Ecstasy: How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Abraham
: Psychedelic Pathways, 2024.“Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They’re not punchlines. They’re not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain. Trauma and Ecstasy takes a long, hard look at pain, from the sudden unexplained pelvic floor discomfort that afflicted Alex at the end of a trip abroad to the deeply rooted anxiety and shame of a childhood robbed of innocence. In this powerful and courageous memoir, Alex takes you on his journey of healing from sexual abuse while searching for answers to his health issues that traditional medicine failed to explain or treat.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
Read MoreJohn Carter
Port Townsend: Feral House, 2004.The story of NASA rocket scientist and antichrist Aleister Crowley occultist Jack Parsons. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson.
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Psychedelic Psychotherapy: A User Friendly Guide to Psychedelic Drug Assisted Psychotherapy
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Coleman
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2020.“Psychedelic Psychotherapy is a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource for therapists and laypeople who need practical guidelines for psychedelic drug-assisted psychotherapy. This book contains valuable insiders’ information for those using psychedelics for their own healing, and for practitioners who facilitate their sessions with a focus of healing trauma using MDMA, LSD, and psilocybin. It includes step-by-step guidance on how to safely and effectively navigate through the psychedelically-enhanced healing process.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact (Volume 1)
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander Shulgin
Berkeley & Santa Fe: Transform Press & Synergetic Press, 2021.“The Nature of Drugs presents Sasha Shulgin’s popular San Francisco State University course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. The course also delves into social issues and reactions involving drugs, and discussions of governmental attempts at controlling them and features Sasha’s engaging lecture style peppered with illuminating anecdotes and amusing asides.” (publisher’s blurb)