Psychedelic Book Club

We’ll be discussing readings and plans for the year ahead.

December 2022

• Perutz, Leo. St. Petri-Schnee. St. peter’s Snow Wien: Zsolnay, 1933. (Audible)

January 2023

• Pollan, Michael. How to change your mind: What the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence. Penguin, 2018. (Audible)

• Pollan, Michael. This is your mind on plants. Penguin, 2022. (Audible)

February 2023

• Jay, Mike. Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic. Yale University Press, 2019. (Audible)

March 2023

• Hatsis, Thomas. LSD—The Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s. Simon and Schuster, 2021. (Audible)

April 2023

• Hofmann, Albert. LSD: my problem child. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Audible)

May 2023

• Minutaglio, Bill, and Steven L. Davis. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD. Twelve, 2018. (Audible)

June 2023

• Grey, Allyson. Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing. Simon and Schuster, 2019. (Audible)

July 2023

• Jarnow, Jesse. Heads: A biography of psychedelic America. Hachette UK, 2016. (Audible)

August 2023

• McKenna, Terence. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradis. Harper Collins, 1994. (Audible)

September 2023

• Davis, Erik. High weirdness: Drugs, esoterica, and visionary experience in the seventies. MIT Press, 2019. (Audible)

October 2023

• Hatsis, Thomas. The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic. Simon and Schuster, 2015. (Audible)

November 2023

• Holland, Julie. Good chemistry: the science of connection, from soul to psychedelics. HarperCollins, 2020 (Audible)

December 2023

• Muraresku, Brian C. The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. (Audible)

January 2024

• Leary, Timothy, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner. The psychedelic experience: A manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead. Citadel, 2022. (Audible)

February 2024

• Shulgin, Alexander Theodore, and Ann Shulgin. PIHKAL: a chemical love story. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1995. (Audible)