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  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

  by Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and... (more)
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  A Scanner Darkly

  by Philip K. Dick

  Perhaps the most unnerving drug novel ever written, as well as an industrial-grade stress test of identity, this novel explores the perverse symbiosis of cop and criminal, observer and observed.
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  The Illuminatus! Trilogy

  The Illuminatus! Trilogy

  The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

  by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

  "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice.
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  The Doors of Perception

  by Aldous Huxley

  This exploratory essay about Aldous Huxley's experience with mescaline, the active principal of peyote, sparked a generation of drug experimentation, and it continues to challenge beliefs about the drugs condoned and forbidden in our society. This classic work is complete and unabridged, with an insightful reading by Rudolf Schirmer, a long-time friend of Huxley. 2 cassettes.
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  Breaking Open the Head

  A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

  by Daniel Pinchbeck

  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,... (more)
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  Orange Sunshine

  The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

  by Nicholas Schou, Nick Schou

  Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary’s mantra of “Turn on, tune in, and drop out” and resolved to make that vision a reality... (more)
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  Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything: Or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance

  by Robert Anton Wilson

  A once-in-a-lifetime audio meeting with The Illuminatus! Trilogy author Robert Anton Wilson- bringing you face-to-face with this unconventional and brilliant novelist, visionary, and "standup comic for the mystically inclined." Features Wilson on futurist psychology, the paranormal, God, political conspiracies (real and imagined), life extension and space migration, the origins of language, guerrilla ontology, and... (more)
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  The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell

  by Aldous Huxley

  Two classic complete books -- The Doors of Perception (originally published in 1954) and Heaven and Hell (originally published in 1956) -- in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World , explores, as only he can, the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs... (more)
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  Last Words

  The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

  by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz

  Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns -- literature, U.S. drug policy, the... (more)
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  Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s

  This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul,... (more)
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  A Smut Saga

  Asphyxia: A Smut Saga

  by Gori Suture

  FOR ADULTS ONLY! Nathaniel, teenage occultist, is in love with Jithinia, a nihilistic sexpot. All is well, until they meet Eldridge. Eldridge, a shape-shifting creature from another dimension, is quite mad. He still feels the ghostly remnants of his amputated wings. He can smell them rotting, feel the squirming maggots eating at them. The only thing that eases his suffering is to devour a soul. He is moments away... (more)
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  You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

  by Sam Cutler

  An exhilarating, all-access rock memoir from someone who has seen and done it all, this telling recounts the many experiences of Sam Cutler, the former tour manager of the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. With intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was the music industry in the 1960s and 1970s—including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Eric... (more)
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  Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD, and the Politics of Ecstasy

  by Mark Christensen

  From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described himself as "too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," this account conducts a mesmerizing journey... (more)
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  White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg

  by Peter H. Conners

  In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous—or infamous—and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his psychedelic experiments at Harvard to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia’s elite. “America’s most conspicuous beatnik” was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic... (more)
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  The Constant Travellers

  by Gordon Basichis

  Sex, drugs, and the West that never was. In a novel at once raucously funny and deeply philosophical, author Gordon Basichis explores one man's continuing search to unlock life's elusive mysteries. Setting out for the Far West after the Civil War, young Shelby Lopez encounters Indian mystic Thunderbird Hawkins. With the help of his marijuana, peyote, and "magic mushrooms," the Indian teaches Shelby of the Great... (more)
• Recreational DrugsLawrence A Young, Linda G Young, Marjorie M Klein, Donald M Klein, Dorianne Beyer

  

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  Recreational Drugs

  by Lawrence A Young, Linda G Young, Marjorie M Klein, Donald M Klein, Dorianne Beyer

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  Pendulum Rift

  by Virgil Blackwell

  Somewhere between here and there, Marcus stands alone before the absent door, trapped in a room with little recollection of who he is or how long he's been there. His mind has unraveled in his old age, haunted by forgotten memories. But when he slips into the deep sleep, this lost soul will become young again, entangled in the collective unconscious of Oblivion from which all existence is woven, spiraling out in... (more)
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  The Messiah of Death Saga: Book 1

  Demonmachy

  Demonic Apocalypse

  by Brant Danay

  As the universe slowly dies, all demonkind is at war in a tournament of genocide, for the nirvanic afterlife of the Jh'a'vyraa shall only be attained by the single remaining entity or pair of soulmates to survive the cosmos-spanning battles at the edge of time. Chariah, a death-addicted Necrodelic who smokes the flesh of his victims through a giant, blood-filled bong, and traverses the galaxies in a bestial... (more)
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  The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles: Book 3

  Nature's God

  by Robert Anton Wilson

  They are the most secret of organizations and the most powerful - the Illuminati. They continue to shift the patterns of history to fulfill plans of their own, to open pathways to power which ordinary mortals are never meant to tread. It is 1776, and Sigismundo Celine, a young Neapolitan aristocrat and musician exiled from his homeland after an unfortunate duel has fled Europe for the American colonies. Here he... (more)
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  Hippie

  by Barry Miles

  New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined an age, this tribute to the 1960's counterculture is as groovy as it gets. For those who were there, this volume will invoke the... (more)