 | The Complete Guide to World Mysticism by Timothy Freke
Bks about W. esotericism, gnostic experiential relig, or world mysticism, w/ emph. on vis'ny plants in many traditions. This bk has maj. coverage of vision'y plants in many (broadly) 'mystic' forms.
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 | Out of this World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein by Ioan P. Culianu
Buy new: $21.17 / Used from: $11.90 Works across history and traditions to find metaphorical descriptions of the intense mystic altered state of experiencing.
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 | Marihuana: The Burning Bush of Moses: Mysticism & Cannabis Experience by Robert P Thorne
Buy used from: $178.48 Misleading cover and title. The content is actually about visionary plants in mystic philosophy. Good content, needs a publisher, editor, and designer.
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 | The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience by Dan Merkur
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $9.06 Short-session, rational, visionary-plant mysticism. Entheogen-induced ecstatic contemplation in Philo, Aristotle, Islam, Bernard, Mt. Sinai, Maimonides.
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 | Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans by Nevill Drury
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $3.90 A polished, broad-scoped history of Western esotericism, with emphasis on visionary plants and the 'magic' theme throughout the Western Esotericism traditions.
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 | Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants by Claudia Müller-Ebeling
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $8.98 Provides many ways visionary plants appear in Western myth and esoteric Tradition.
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 | Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy by Clark Heinrich
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.49 Amanita & vis. plants thru religious history: Vedic; Soma; Vishnu, Krishna; Rudra/Himalayas, Shiva, Hanuman, Tantra; Old & New Testament; Gnostics; Holy Grail; Alchemy; Renaissance art; Amer. Indians.
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 | Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness by Martin W. Ball
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $8.19 Relevant and straight-talking coverage of mystic altered-state experiencing.
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 | Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis by Carl A. P. Ruck
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $10.33 An accessible summary of Ruck's scholarly work about how visionary plants (perhaps an ergot derivative) were used in an ancient, long-lasting Greek mystery-religion
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 | Visionary Plant Consciousness: The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $4.16 Presentations from Bioneers conference: Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, and Kat Harrison, others. The nature of psychoactive plants and their significant connection to humans. How visionary plants access the mind of nature, for ecological correction.
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 | Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.43 How shamans commune with the spirits of visionary plants.
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 | The Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales by Carl A.P. Ruck
Buy new: $31.60 / Used from: $55.15 Ruck tends to assume that visionary plant usage was common yet rare and deviant throughout European history; he's self-contradictory to some extent, holding back against the full-on maximal entheogen theory of religion. This book is a step in the right direction, but could go further.
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 | Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher
Buy new: $19.72 / Used from: $2.99 Some contributions, though it centers around a poorly conducted refutation of a poor version of the entheogen theory of religion
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 | Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.50 Edited collection of articles from various authors.
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 | Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $13.50 Covers altered states and visionary plants, including the following terms: ecstatic, altered, altered state, trance, drug, shamanism, psychotropic, ketamine, shaman, shamanic, seizure, psychedelic, psychoactive, mushroom, dissociation, henbane, epilepsy, entheogen, jimson, ergot, marijuana, poppies
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 | Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $13.46 Literary poetic treatment of various entheogenic plants.
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 | Entheogen Review
Buy new: $35.00 Doesn't particularly focus on the history of visionary plant use. This is about the only active periodical that is still available on entheogens.
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![Psychedelic Medicine [Two Volumes]: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vpt7%2Bb8mL._SL75_.jpg) | Psychedelic Medicine [Two Volumes]: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
Buy new: $200.00 / Used from: $175.00 An inventory of the healing potential of visionary plants.
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 | Sage Spirit: Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic Experience by Martin W. Ball
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $14.74 Like his book Mushroom Wisdom, this provides relevant and straight-talking coverage of mystic altered-state experiencing. Similar to my Egodeath site.
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 | Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.23 I read paranormal phenomena as metaphorical descriptions of plant-induced cognitive, experiential phenomena. That interpretation is easy with this book's visionary-plants approach to the supernatural.
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