Book Companions
We compiled a Library of books and articles exploring the intersection of the psychedelic and entheogenic experience with trauma work, spiritual development, counterculture and much more!
Books on Shadow work, Trauma healing and Psychospiritual development
Trauma and the Soul: a psychospiritual approach to human development and its interruption. Donald Kalsched
Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery. Robert Johnson
Shivitti: A Vision. Ka-Tzetnik
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self. Anodea Judith
The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine. Dr Joe Tafur
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. Pema Chodron
Attachment in religion and spirituality: A Wider View. Pehr Granqvist
Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life. Connie Zweig & Steve Wolf.
Madison Margolin: Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground
Books on plant shamanism, psychedelic therapy and psychedelic integration
Psychedelic integration, psychotherapy for non ordinary states of being. Marc Aixala
Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge. Narby & Pizuri
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. Stephan Beyer
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge Paperback. Jeremy Narby
The Ayahuasca Sessions: Conversations with Amazonian Curanderos and Western Shamans Paperback . Rak Razam
Plant Spirit Medicine. Eliot Cowen
When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance. Pinchbeck et al
Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming. Peter Gorman
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States. Read et al
Swimming in the sacred, Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground. Rachel Harris
Food of the goods. Terrence McKenna
Journey with plant spirits: Plant Consciousness Healing and Natural Magic. Emma Farrell.
Integrating: An introduction to the Psychedelic Integration Process. Dr. Sophie J. Whitney
Classics & Psychedelic literature
The way of the Psychonaut. Stan Grof
When the impossible happens. Stan Grof
Be here now. Ram Dass
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven. Christopher Bach
The psychedelic explorers guide. James F
Bicycle day. Brian Blomenth
The teachings of Don Juan
The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. Daniel Pinchbeck
The Psychedelic Experience: A manual based on the Tibetian book of the Dead. Timothy Leary
Archetypal literature
Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts. Stein et al
Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair. Simon Yugler
Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing. Maria Papaspyrou et al
Book of symbols. Taschen
The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell
Psychedelics, culture and social movement
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture. By Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Michael Pollan
This Is Your Mind on Plants. Michael Pollan
Philosophy and Psychedelics Frameworks for Exceptional Experience. Christine Hauskeller (Anthology Editor) , Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes (Anthology Editor)
Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine. By Alex Belser, Ph.D.; Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D.; Bia Labate, Ph.D. (eds.)
Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices. Edited by Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Ph.D., Clancy Cavnar et al.
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution.Terence McKenna
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven. Christopher M. Bache and Ervin Laszlo
Articles
Shadow Work for Beginners: Prompts, Journaling, and Exercises | DoubleBlind Mag - https://doubleblindmag.com/shadow-work-for-beginners/
Dr Ido Cohen: Returning to wholeness: the psychospiritual integration process of ayahuasca ceremonies in western participants from a Jungian perspective.
Dr. Jonalyn Blaha: Riding the Bliss Wave: A Thematic Analysis of Intuitive Entheogen Dance Experiences in Women