These two absolutely kicked ass
I just finished breaking open the head by daniel pinchbeck, so excelent. I first hear him speak on a radio program and thought he was a pretentius, now after I finished his book I have deep respect and a much greater, different, undesranding of contemporary shamanism, psychedelic culture, plants and compounds. And pinchbeck for that matter.
http://breakingopenthehead.com/ is the site for the book.
I also finish terence mckenna's True hallucinations, what a bizzare story, I loved this one too. Its quite interesting to see the changes he and dennis went through at La Churrera. beautifully written, the journal entries afre filled with the strange powerfull allusiveness the mushroom conveys. And their trip is most changed by the mushroom.
(I also got Archaic revival by terence too, but have not finished it. It's his "raps" about everything social, chronical, and otherworldly condensed into about 250 pages. So heavy to read, Much different than hearing him speak about it. much different than True hallucinations, or food of the gods for that matter. I cannot wait till I can get my hands on the invisible landscape, the mushroom grow guide(and the technology to produce some deliecious fungus))