# 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.

## 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