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Thread to discuss psychedelia and related literature.

CHIM edition

Reposting to correct typoes and refine list...

Question for thread: Are we having a psychedelic renaissance?

>suggested reading:
Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy, BNW, The Island, Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell
Leary - The Psychedelic Experience, Politics of Ecstasy, Info(/Exo)-Psychology, Game of Life
RAW - Quantum Psychology, Prometheus Rising, Illuminatus!, Cosmic Trigger
Antero Ali - Angel Tech
Laing - The Divided Self, Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
Lily - Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer
Stevens - Storming Heaven
Lee - LSD Dreams
Torgoff - Can't Find My Way Home
Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
HST - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind
Albert Hoffman - LSD: My Problem Child
Strassman - DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Sasha Shulgin - PIHKAL and TIHKAL
Grof - LSD Psychotherapy
Pendell - Pharmako Trilogy
T. McKenna - Food of the Gods, True Hallucinations, The Archaic Revival
D. McKenna - Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Eliade - The Myth of the Eternal Return, The Sacred and the Profane, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Harner - Way of the Shaman
Pinchbeck - Breaking Open the Head
Narby - Cosmic Serpent
Castaneda - Don Juan Series
Benjamin - On Hashish
Pickard - The Rose of Paracelsus
Otto - The Idea of the Holy
James - The Varieties of Religious Experiences
Bataille - Theory of Religion
Mauss - Theory of Magic
Bergier - In The Morning Of The Magicians
Jodorowski - Psychomagic, Way of the Tarot
Crowley - Book Four: Liber ABA, Magick Without Tears, Book of Thoth, Book of Lies
AOS - Book of Pleasure, Zos Speaks!
Grant - The Magickal Revival
Caroll - Liber Null & Psychonaut
Hine - Condensed Chaos
Snell - Thundersqueak
White - Chaos Protocols
Davis - Techgnosis, High Weirdness

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>FAQ
Q: Should I trip balls?
A: Yes. Absolutely. Talk to stoners. Or use deepweb.
Q: Should I read books?
A: You're on a fucking literature board so you better.

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>>15231082

>CHIM

Extremely based. Michael Kirkbride was definitely on the sauce.

>> No.15231101

I dont know any of these but Alice in Wonderland is great and you should read it

>> No.15231107

>>15231101
Borges should be recommended too

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>>15231101

Also this

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>>15231098

>> No.15231122

>>15231115
I will thanks :)

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You watch Midnight Gospel, OP?

>> No.15231196

>>15231150
Haven't yet. Heard good things.

If you like Adventure Time and esotericism, one of the animators, Moynihan, has a really cool webcomic called Forming tho...

>> No.15231199

>>15231098
Nah, he probably wasnt that degenerate. Druggos have a certian underwelming feel to them that just cant compete to schitzos. Probably went to india for a semester or something.

>> No.15231250

>>15231199
You ignore the large overlap between skitzos and drug users but I have not heard confirmation of the rumor (yet is it not unreasonable that the mentally ill might self-medicate more than most?)

>> No.15231264

Tibetan Book of the Dead?

>> No.15231277

>>15231250
By schitzo i simply meant people who are autisticly interested in a worldview. So clinical schitzo being a subset of that. I meant he is probably well read into vedic metaphysics or something. If he is a druggo, Id say its probably supplemental rather than the origin of his good shit.

>> No.15231315

>>15231199

He said he takes peyote and even that he used it as inspiration for Elder Scrolls.

Source : fucking google it

>> No.15231319

>>15231264
Enter the Void

>> No.15231325

>>15231264

Actually has nothing to do with psychedelics other than the fact that Huxley probably read it while he was peaking and thought 'omg this is so profound' and shilled it after that.

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>>15231277
It is beyond vedic. Possibly gnostic. TES lore is wildly unique.
>>15231315
Don't be lazy. Post link

>> No.15231396

>>15231325
It is the basis of Leary's Psychedelic Experience

>> No.15231495

>>15231396

And? The Hero with a Thousand faces is the basis for Star Wars but that doesn't mean it's about UFOs

>> No.15231502

>>15231329
no it's a shitty western misinterpretation of hinduism. false-depth.

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>>15231495
Campbell is a intellectually poor man's Jung and Jung believed in UFOs...
>>15231502
Misinterpretation leads to truth.

>> No.15231597

>>15231543

>Jung believed in UFOs

Lmao is this true? Ebin

>> No.15231671

>>15231082
Gay thread, shit genre. Psychedelic literature is actually some of the most boring shit out there, despite its fundamental potential. Especially poorly written and bland works like >>15231115 which barely even have psychedelic sequence, and a tepid one at that.

>>15231264
>>15231325
Case in point, nobody here actually seems to read other than the chap who pointed this out. Somehow a kinda boring religious text manages to have more intellectual significance than shitty psychedelic lit.

>> No.15231842

The Process by Brion Grysin

>> No.15232073

>>15231671
>nobody reads
Take your meds buddy

>> No.15232085

>>15231597
http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/carl_jungs_1957_letter_on_the_fascinating_modern_myth_of_ufos.html

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>>15231671
I bet you haven't read any of the books in OPs list

>> No.15232101

>>15232092
i read them and thats how i know theyre boring as f.

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>>15231150
>>15231196
Just watchee. Kinda disappointing desu but not entirely terrible. First episode is a mess. Improves slightly it seems.

>> No.15232147

>>15232101
Not all books appeal to all people. And sometimes informative books are dry. You ever try VALIS? What about Zelazny? Should I have included more scripture in the reading list? I imagine one would be led to such on their own however...

>> No.15232176

>>15231082
>The Perennial Philosophy
How is this? Is it possible to pick it up and understand it?

>> No.15232191

>>15232176
It's kinda basic but a good intro to new age bullshit.

>> No.15232200

>>15231315
https://www.google.com/amp/s/uesp.tumblr.com/post/179903892360/is-it-true-that-michael-kirkbride-took-mushrooms/amp

>> No.15232243

>>15232200
Disappointing...

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>> No.15234142

>>15231082
>Are we having a psychedelic renaissance?
I suspect so. At least, there's bound to be before long. They're too rewarding, and the law is loosening. Meanwhile all the issues that psychedelics remedy are accelerating. Society will gravitate towards psychedelics naturally

>> No.15234829

>>15231671
> kinda boring religious text manages
did you read it, anon?