An insider’s account of the journey to become an ayahuasquero, a shaman who heals with the visionary vine ayahuasca• Details the author’s training and life as a curandero using ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms, and other visionary plants• Offers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed his mother from liver cancer• Shows how “ayahuasca touri...

A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.• A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.• Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences.From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psy...

Practical exercises to reach higher levels of orgasm, renew relationships, and discover the healing power of sex• Illustrates how to identify and best please the nine male and female genital anatomy types--such as Coyote Man or Buffalo Woman• Provides exercises for greater sexual pleasure and orgasmic intensity, including the Firebreath exercise for full-body orgasm• Explains how to perform powerful healing sexual energetic work with the chakras and light body

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience.While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other ...

You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem-solving, empowerment, and personal mastery.But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will s...

How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life• Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin experience• Explains how sacred mushrooms help restore our connection to the natural intelligence of Nature• Reviews the research on psilocybin’s ability to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive disorderIt has been more than 50 years since sacred mushr...

Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various psychotropic plant substances including the belladonna alkaloids, d-lysergic acid amide, botanical analogues of LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin.Opening with vivid d...

The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook provides a practical guide to ayahuasca use, aiding seekers in making right—and safe—decisions about where to go, who to drink with, and what to expect.Ayahuasca, the Amazonian psychoactive plant brew, has become vastly popular. Once the sole purview of shamans and indigenous native people in the great Amazon rainforest, ayahuasca is now becoming well known—and widely used—around the globe. Today, foreigners from all over the world flock ...

A book of wisdom teachings and rituals that invoke ancient Egyptian deities to awaken human consciousness• Provides guided shamanic visualizations to invoke 26 of the most significant gods• Takes the reader through shamanic portals of death, rebirth, and illumination• Reconciles internal conflict through a sacred marriage of heart and mindIn Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf renew humanity’s connection to the ancient gods...

An eye-opening response to Aldous Huxley’s widely influential work on psychedelics, physical reality, and consciousnessWhat exactly are hallucinations? Are they actually doors to another reality? Anthony Peake thinks so. In this stunning book, he takes Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and updates it using the latest information from quantum mechanics, neurochemistry, and consciousness studies.Most human beings perceive the doors of perceptio...

Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a "best of" collection of articles and essays published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Topics include the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics--including MDMA,...

A guide to reconnecting with Jesus, Mary, and the saints as shamanic teachers of divine mysteries• Contains meditations, contemplations, parables, and active ritual tasks that help bring forth a shamanic understanding and practice of Christianity• Shows shamanic experience to be the root of mystical communionWhen the missionaries came to North America to “save” the American Indians, they were perplexed to discover that while they talked about Jesus, some of...