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Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRam Dass; Ralph Metzner; Gary Bravo
Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2010.“No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent Book Awards Finalist, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture explores these experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen photographs, personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass, and conversations with luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Charles Mingus, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sex, Drugs, and Aphrodisiacs: Where to Obtain Them, How to Use Them, and Their Effects
AU$22.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdam Gottlieb
Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1993.“The essential connoisseur’s guide to herbs and potions traditionally associated with enhanced sensual pleasure. Throughout history men and women have sought to increase their sexual pleasure through the use of a variety of substances. SEX DRUGS AND APHRODISIACS chronicles the results of this eternal quest. Includes discussions of yohimbe, fugu, absinthe, yage and other exotic specialties and includes a comprehensive history of sources, preparations, uses and effects. Finally this hard to obtain cult classic is available again.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Psychedelic Chemistry
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Valentine Smith
Berkeley: Ronin, 1981.“Out-of-print for years, and impossible to find Psychedelic Chemistry includes Marijuana THC and analogs, magic Mushrooms and other indole trips, mescaline and friends, harmaline and other beta-carbolines, muscimole and other isoxazoles, LSD, Cocaine, miscellaneous psychedelics, literature and chemical information, miscellany on underground laboratories, role of the DEA labs in drug busts …and more! Psychedelic Chemistry is the biggest, best and most complete book every written on how to make psychedelic drugs. The most complete book ever written on how to manufacture psychedelic drugs. Requires thorough knowledge of lab techniques in organic chemistry.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Psychedelic Reader: The Revolutionary 1960s Forum of Psychopharmacological Substances
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTimothy Leary; Ralph Metzner; Gunther M. Weil
Kensington: Citadel Press, 2007.Classic selections from The Psychedelic Review, edited by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Gunther M. Weil. Foreword by Erik Davis.
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The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche
AU$33.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Masters; Jean Houston
Rochester: Park Street Press, 2000.“The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience was published in 1966, just as the first legal restrictions on the use of psychedelic substances were being enacted. Unfortunately, the authors’ pioneering work on the effects of LSD on the human psyche, which was viewed by its participants as possibly heralding a revolution in the study of the mind, was among the casualties of this interdiction. As a result, the promising results to which their studies attested were never fully explored. Nevertheless, their 15 years of research represents a sober and authoritative appraisal of what remains one of the most controversial developments in the study of the human psyche. Avoiding the wild excesses taken by both sides on this issue, this book is unique for the light it sheds on the possibilities and the limitations of psychedelic drugs, as well as on the techniques for working with them. With drug legalization an increasingly important issue, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience provides a welcome and much needed contrast to the current hysteria that surrounds this topic.” (publisher’s blurb)
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LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStainslav Grof
Lomond: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2008.“The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 1960s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research. Much of what had been learned over thirty years of scientific medical study was so distorted or suppressed that no objective overview was available to the general reader except for this book. LSD Psychotherapy is a complete account of a remarkable chapter in the ever-continuing inquiry into our transpersonal nature and origins. The controlled studies described in this book reveal exciting and challenging data about the nature of human consciousness, perception, and reality itself. Drawing on this work, Stanislav Grof outlines a new cartography of the human mind, one which accounts for experiences such as shamanic trances, near-death experiences and altered states of consciousness.” (publisher’s blurb) New Introduction by Albert Hoffman.
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LSD: My Problem Child (Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2009.“This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. He traces LSD’s path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. In LSD: My Problem Child, we follow Dr. Hofmann’s trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other notable figures about his remarkable discovery. Underlying it all is Dr. Hofmann’s powerful conclusion that mystical experiences may be our planet’s best hope for survival. Whether induced by LSD, meditation, or arising spontaneously, such experiences help us to comprehend the wonder, the mystery of the divine, in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula, in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people. More than sixty years after the birth of Albert Hofmann’s problem child, his vision of its true potential is more relevant, and more needed, than ever.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Davis
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2024.“Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’ boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Stevens
New York: Grove Press, 1998.“For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded “the most dangerous man in America”); for Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters it fueled the notorious Acid Tests; and it was the improbable common denominator that united such disparate figures as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Charles Manson. In this brilliant, riveting, and exhaustively researched book, Jay Stevens relates the history of that “curious molecule,” LSD. He unearths a story of Pynchonesque complexity, tells it with novelistic flair, and irrefutably demonstrates LSD’s pivotal role in the cultural upheavals that shook America in the 1960s and changed the country forever.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Coca and Its Therapeutic Application
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo Mariani
New York: J. N. Jaros, 1892.Second Edition in English of the influential cocaine monograph by the inventor of the first coca wine (vin Mariani) which became a popular medicinal tonic in Europe and America from the 1860s and was the forerunner to Coca-Cola. An ardent entrepreneur Mariani marketed heavily the curative properties of his spirited beverage, of which this monograph played an important part.
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Ephemeris Pharmacologica. Being Terse Synopses relating to Drugs and Modern Scientific Preparations,
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOppenheimer, Son & Co.
London: Oppenheimer, Son & Co., 1907.Collated with the utmost care from the Most Recent and Most Authentic Publications with References and Notes on Emergencies. A doctor’s diary.
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Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Bourguignon
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.This copy with the stamps of Japanese anthropologists Takie and William Lebra, and the bookplate of tribal arts dealer Philip Goldman.
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Psychedelic Monographs and Essays
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Lyttle
Naples, Ft Lauderdale, Boca Raton, & Boynton Beach: PM & E Publishing Group, 1985-1993.Complete set of the scarce psychedelic journal edited and published by Thomas Lyttle during the late 1980s and early 1990s. PM&E grew directly out of the earlier psychedelic information exchange paper, The Psychozoic Press. This set with a laid in signed typescript card from the editor, as well as a catalogue and related psychedelic literature material from Rosetta Books, Berkeley.
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Birth No. 3 Book 1 & 2: Stimulants: An Exhibition
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTuli Kupferberg
New York: Birth, 1960.1960s Greenwich Village two part literary zine on drugs. Poetic contributions on alcohol, marijuana, peyote, opium, tobacco, tea, coffee, and other stimulants. Texts by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and many others, edited by American poet and co-founder of The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010).
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Drugs, Rituals, and Altered States of Consciousness
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian M. Du Toit
Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1977.This book is the result of a 1975 symposium of the Society for Applied Anthology in Amsterdam. An exploration on the realm of drug use and its relationship to secular ritual. Exploring myths and rituals associated with hallucinogen and heroin use in various socio-cultural settings. Includes music-colour synesthesia and out-of-body experiences.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies.
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Lucifer
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen Skinner; Neville Drury
Sydney: The Lucifer Publishing Company, 1968.One shot Australian underground newspaper edited by Stephen Skinner with artwork by Neville Drury, Bob Smith, C. Foley, and Michele. Writings include an experiential report on the psychedelic STP (DOM), Bob Dylan’s film Don’t Look Back, Flying Saucers, Alchemy, and more.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.