Here’s an excerpt from the book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science about the origins of psychedelic science in 1930s through 1960s.
Read moreBook Review: Tripping on Utopia
Here’s a great write up on historian Benjamin Breen’s new book, “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science”.
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History of Psychotropics
Here’s a review of two new books on the history of psychotropics.
Read moreDemystifying the Idea of Consciousness
In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness. Keep reading for this book review.
Read moreBook Review: This is Your Mind on Plants, by Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan plunges into mescaline, opium, and caffeine in his new book.
Read morePeter Kingsley's Catafalque
Here’s an enthralling review of Kingsley’s Catafalque.
Read moreLearning About Psychedelics from Animals
As we imagine a future with positive cultural norms around psychedelics, the book “Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness” by Italian ethnobotanist and ethnomycologist Giorgio Samorini may offer us some guidance.
Read moreBook Review: Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic
Check out this book review of author Mike’s Jay’s history of mescaline.
Read moreBooklist for Plant Medicine and Shamanism
Interested in reading more about shamanism and plant medicine? Check out this booklist of the 40 best books, from Chacruna.net.
Read moreWhen Science Meets Consciousness
In the new book Thus Spoke the Plant, by evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, she suggests plants might possess intelligence, memory and learning, although the mechanisms at play may be fundamentally different from those of humans and animals.
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