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Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex K. Gearin
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.“Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Perou Solidaire: Chamanique, Cosmique, Symbolique
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Devigne
Nice: Imprimerie Crouzet, 2012.A revised and expanded version of Prodigioso Peru Profundo. A study of pre-Columbian Peruvian religion, art, cosmology, shamanism, and antiquities.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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Cigars & The Man
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Graves
London: Martins, No date.Who are the men who smoke cigars? Successful men according to this promotional piece by Martins Cigar Shippers of Picadilly. More than mere promotional puff, Graves provides tips to the new smoker, and outlines histories and traditions of the practice. A lengthy Q&A section is followed by a colour supplementary of Martins cigars according to Graves’ seven classifications. Order form with envelope laid in, together with an autographed typescript letter dated 2nd December, 1938 from the firm’s sales manager on Martins letterhead.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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A Citizen’s Guide to Marihuana in Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Crowley; Lorna Cartwright
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981.A balanced look at marijuana in midst of the prohibition years in Australia. Also discusses broader drug use in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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LSD, Man & Society
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Die Wirkstoffe der dritten aztekischen Zauberdroge oder Die Losung des Ololiuqui-Ratsels
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann; A. Cerletti
Stuttgart: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1961.Reissue from Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr. 18, pp. 885-888. Paper by the Swiss chemist and psychedelic icon who first synthesised and ingested LSD and his colleague at Sandoz Aurelio Cerletti on the “third aztec magical drug”, Ololiuqui (Ipomoea corymbosa), a species of morning glory.
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The Shulgin Index Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Tania Manning; Paul F. Daley
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2011.The first and only volume (to date) of The Shulgin Index: a comprehensive survey of all known psychedelic phenethylamines and related compounds. Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014) is considered one of the greatest figures of the psychedelic movement and is known for introducing MDMA to American psychologists and first synthesising many of the psychedelic phenethylamines.
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of South East Queensland, Australia: Eliminating the Harms
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. K. Nixon
[Eumundi]: T. K. Nixon, 2023.“What are the main harms associated with foraging for and eating psilocybin mushrooms – the mushrooms themselves, poisonous look-a-likes, or the laws surrounding their use and possession? T. K. Nixon guides us through thousands of years of history, fifty years of prohibition and a modern, scientific, mushroom renaissance in this one-of-a-kind work. With over forty full-colour photos, and identification and environmental information, this book contains all you need to avoid the harms associated with psilocybin mushrooms.” (rear cover)
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The Millennium Edition of Grass: Great Revolutionary American Standard System
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Herer; Al Emmanuel
Austin: Ah Ha Publishing, 2000.The Official Guide for Assessing the Quality of Marijuana on the 1 to 10 Scale & Coloring Book.
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In Search of Smiles: LSD, Operation Julie and Beyond
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndy Roberts
London: Psychedelic Press, 2023.“The life of Alston Hughes, aka Smiles, is an extraordinary journey through Britain’s counterculture and illicit drug networks in the late twentieth century. A key figure in the Microdot Gang conspiracy, Smiles shifted millions of doses of LSD before being arrested in 1977 by Operation Julie — the police investigation which unearthed what was then the largest LSD manufacturing and distribution operation of its kind. Based on a series of interviews, Andy Roberts’ In Search of Smiles is an enthralling folkloric biography of a life lived to the full, and a culture pushed to the edge. From a tough upbringing in postwar Manchester, to free festivals, hashish smuggling, and travels to South Asia, Smiles’ cat and mouse adventure with the authorities weaves through an intimate portrayal of his life, relationships, and community in the village of Llanddewi Brefi and beyond.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Belser; Clancy Cavnar; Beatriz C. Labate
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.“As psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility and diversity in psychedelic science, practice, and discourse… Queering Psychedelics integrates indigenous outlooks on psychedelics, gender roles, and identity while aligning them with those of other marginalized groups: women, people of color, the disabled, the impoverished. This book interrogates the continuing radical potential of queer psychedelia in today’s era of assimilation, paving the way for an inclusive and intersectional world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.Psychotherapist and researcher Ralph Metzner employs academic and spiritual knowledge to investigate human growth and transformation.
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De la Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Etude Physiologique et Therapeutique
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeon-Ernest Monnet
Paris: Lille (Camille Robbe Printing), 1884.Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Physiological and Therapeutic Study. A detailed study of the physiological and therapeutic uses of the African stimulant Gotu Kola. In the original Doctor of Medicine Thesis wrappers, reissued as a monograph in the same year. An advertisement for Fisher & Co’s Mighty Alok Kola Nut tonic in The Brisbane Courier, 1898 quotes Monnet’s report: “I gave a strong infusion of Kola Nut to a railroad track layer, who was suffering from ‘blue devil’s’ (hypochondria) extremely, and within two hours he felt like going to his hard duties, and laughed and talked.”
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Der Kokainismus: Geschichte / Pathologie Medizinische und behordliche Bekampfung
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHans W. Maier
Leipzig: George Thieme, 1926.A professor at the University of Zurich, Maier conducted investigations into the clinical and therapeutic effects of cocaine on users, which included pioneering work on hallucinations and paranoia during his time working at the clinic of Dr. Bleuler. Includes geographical, physiological, and historical background of coca and cocaine along with a comprehensive bibliography. A major work on the subject especially with regard to the history and development of cocaine dependence.
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Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMac Marshall
Port Moresby: The Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982.Monograph 18. Prior to this publication there was very limited academic research dedicated to the consumption of alcohol in Oceania. This book covers the cultural and ceremonial use of alcohol and kava in PNG, as well as the sociological impact of cultural associations and attitudes toward alcoholism.
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Working Men and Ganja: Marihuana Use in Rural Jamaica
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMelanie Creagan Dreher
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982.A study on the commerce and use of ganja (marijuana) in three rural labour farmer villages in Jamaica. The study highlights a debate on ganja between socioeconomic divisions; the upper and middle class condemn it, while the labouring class claim it is beneficial for well being and even enhancing productivity.
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Patterns of Amphetamine Use: Initial Findings from the Amphetamines in Queensland Research Project
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Lynch; Robert Kemp; Leigh Krenske; Andrew Conroy; Julianne Webster
Brisbane: Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2003.Preliminary findings of a research project aimed at gathering comprehensive data about the attitudes and behaviours of amphetamine users in Queensland.