The therapeutic and historical reading list, from clinician-written overviews to the cultural histories that frame the field, each summarized in plain language and linked to its publisher.
Journalist Michael Pollan surveys the modern revival of psychedelic science, blending reporting on researchers and clinical trials with his own first-person accounts of psilocybin and other substances.
Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Rick Strassman provides a physician-authored overview of major psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/ayahuasca.
A general-audience reference on microdosing from researcher James Fadiman, long associated with modern microdosing protocols, with co-author Jordan Gruber.
Written by cognitive-neuroscientist Irene de Caso, this book surveys how classic psychedelics act in the brain, walking general readers through the neurons and…
Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Rick Strassman provides a physician-authored overview of major psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, and…
Journalist Michael Pollan surveys the modern revival of psychedelic science, blending reporting on researchers and clinical trials with his own first-person accounts…
Food-and-nature journalist Eugenia Bone reports on the current state of psilocybin use, from microdosing to high-dose 'heroic' trips, blending first-person narrative…
Written by clinician and facilitator Dr. JJ Pursell, this 2024 guide walks general readers through psilocybin's therapeutic use: the chemistry of the mushrooms, a…
A first-person account paired with a practical guide to psychedelic-assisted trauma work. Author Shannon Duncan describes his own multi-year process of using…
A scholarly history of self-experimentation with mind-altering drugs and how those accounts shaped psychology, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy.
Journalist Jennifer Chesak's 2023 guide foregrounds sex-specific considerations in psilocybin use, covering psychedelic therapy, microdosing, hormonal factors, and…
Written by Jahan Khamsehzadeh, who holds a PhD in psychology, this 2022 book frames psilocybin mushrooms within human psychology, biology, and social development.
A short, independently published how-to guide from 2021 describing the popular "Stamets Stack" microdosing protocol, which combines low doses of psilocybin mushrooms…
A widely praised, science-grounded tour of the fungal kingdom by biologist Merlin Sheldrake, who holds a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge.
A best-selling investigation, with a foreword by Graham Hancock, into the possibility that psychedelic sacraments shaped ancient Greek religion and early Christianity.
A literary memoir, published by Dottir Press in 2020, recounting Bett Williams's extended personal relationship with psilocybin mushrooms, much of it set in New…
Journalist Michelle Janikian's general-audience guide takes a harm-reduction approach to psilocybin mushrooms, walking readers through topics such as safer-use…
Built from Richard Louis Miller's interviews with researchers including Rick Doblin, Stanislav Grof, James Fadiman, Julie Holland, and Dennis McKenna, this book offers…
A first-person account in which Brian Jackson recounts his own use of psilocybin mushrooms, both recreationally and as what he frames as a personal medicine, and folds…
Edited by scholar James Penner, this 2014 volume collects Timothy Leary's early scientific articles and essays from his Harvard period, including writings tied to the…
A first-person account, published in 2013, that lays out the author's personal psychological model of the psilocybin mushroom experience. James W.
Filmmaker and independent researcher Simon G. Powell traces the cultural, philosophical, and natural history of psilocybin mushrooms, arguing they have long served as…
Paul Stamets, one of the most-cited figures in popular mycology, lays out a practical and conceptual guide to fungi and the mycelial networks beneath forest floors.
Edited by Ralph Metzner, this sourcebook collects contributions from more than thirty writers spanning the chemical, biological, cultural, psychological, and…
Psychiatrist Rick Strassman recounts U.S. government-approved clinical research he ran at the University of New Mexico from 1990 to 1995, in which about sixty…
Terence McKenna advances a sweeping cultural-evolutionary argument that psychoactive plants and fungi shaped human consciousness and society across history.
A memoir by chemist Albert Hofmann, who first synthesized LSD, recounting that discovery and the compound's path from a candidate psychiatric research tool to a…
An early clinical account of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy by Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo, describing his work with substances including harmaline…
A founding work of ethnomycology by banker-turned-scholar R. Gordon Wasson, advancing the argument that the 'Soma' of the ancient Hindu Rig Veda was the Amanita…
For reference only. The works listed here are third-party publications; listing is not endorsement, and nothing here is a medical or efficacy claim. A book is a reference, not clinical evidence: the register and our analyses never cite one as proof. How titles are chosen and checked is set out in the methodology. Rights holders can request removal.