Lysergamides Any Book Worms?

[Speak Easily]

Do you guys have recommendations for good psychedelic books. Years ago I read Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

IRCC there's a chapter in the book Jobs by Walter Isaacson where Steve spent hours playing backwards chess in his friends attic on acid. I heard his friend sold sheets of acid back then. Does anyone have the book or remember? I'm looking for the story, page number, or chapter. Some of his failures were almost as spectacular as his successes. Steve remaid himself again and again amid such struggle with a strong drive for improvement and perfection. A man who bravely embraced innovation and adventure. A good book.

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”​

Maybe I have to visit the library when they are open.

 

[Robi]

Albert Hoffman,Dennis McKenna,Michael Pollan ,look them up,there's so much to share,but I blew a gasket last night ( lucky gasket) and I'm brain dead.

 

[plonk-ozoid]

Well, I'd recommend the "basics" to see how modern psychedelic culture was born and evolved:

The first is of course "My Problem Child" by Albert Hoffman himself, Get the full PDF for your leisure.

Then "Storming Heaven" by Jay Stevens, excellent stories about the evolution of acid culture, with CIA shit and such, but also psych pioneers who brought acid to masses. Also available on archive.org!

"Acid Dreams" is a good companion to Storming Heaven, takes a look at the sixties and the counterculture in more detail with slightly lighter takes on hippies. Available on Erowid as PDF.

Then you can move on to pre-acid cultures with shamans and mushrooms and such if you're interested. Or pic up a org chem book and move onto pharmacology if you lean that way, good fun.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Do PiHKAL and TiHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin go without saying? I'd better say them to be safe.

PiHKAL and TiHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin.

 

[xdrc]

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I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fra…

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[nepalnt21]

i second "acid dreams", i really enjoyed it

 

[curfew]

PIHKAL & TIKHAL by the Shulgins
Operation White Rabbit by Dennis McDougal
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Heads by Jesse Jarnow
Orange Sunshine by Nicholas Schou
Bear by Robert Greenfield
I Feel Love by Rachel Nuwer