Spirituality & religious experience Books
Becoming Vegetalista: Veriditas and the Journey to the Self
Plants are some of the oldest spiritual teachers that human beings have known. Native cultures have insisted for centuries that their knowledge of plant medicines were given them in dreams and... (more)
Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency
The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with... (more)
A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life
A Quest for Wisdom is a wide-ranging volume which brings together 25 of David Lorimer’s highly acclaimed essays. Among the significant thinkers featured here are many who have shone their light on... (more)
Touched by Nature: Plant Spirit Medicine Journeys
Touched by Nature is about the incredible healing power of plants. Just as their bodies are able to heal our bodies, as evidenced by the many successes of herbal medicine, so their spirit – or energy... (more)
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society: Second Edition
Praise for Second Edition of The Psychedelic Renaissance
'Onward, intrepid explorer, keep your wits, while allowing them to be tickled, as Dr Sessa leads you into a world of remarkable wonders!... (more)
Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience
Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research in this comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences.
“Emphasizing... (more)
Where Shamans Go: Journeys Into Extra-Ordinary Reality
Modern shamans still walk between the worlds as they have done since the earliest days of our species. More and more of us are rediscovering how modern shamanic methods can positively affect our own... (more)
The Tawny One: Soma, Haoma and Ayahuasca
The ancient ritual drink used in religious ceremonies and known as soma in India and as haoma in the Zoroastrian tradition is praised in the highest terms - as a kind of deity - in both Zoroastrian... (more)
Confrontation with the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychedelic Experience
Carl Gustav Jung pioneered the transformative potential of the deep unconscious. Psychedelic substances provide direct and powerful access to this inner world. How, then, might Jungian psychology... (more)
Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth
There are certain unusual mental states that have such an extraordinary intensity, that they are numinous; they involve the presence of an archetype. These states can be beautiful or utterly... (more)
Out of the Shadows: A Cornucopia from the Psychedelic Press
The word "psychedelic" means "mind manifesting." It seems likely that psychedelic agents have profoundly influenced the evolution of our most important civilizations and the development of our... (more)
Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
An exploration of the ways in which the ancestors, from the archetypal to the personal, influence us in the present and implicate us in lives of subsequent generations. At a time when interest in... (more)
The Ways of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond
In pursuit of scientific credibility, psychiatry has neglected the spiritual dimension. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor... (more)
Mud Lotus Mystic: The Poetry and the Practical, Methods of the Inner Journey
Mud Lotus Mystic is a manual for the conscious experiencing and celebration of life in our natural state of peace, laughter, pain, love and truth. This is life and one day our bodies will fail. So... (more)
Into the Woods and Out Again: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation
1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr Dina Glouberman, renowned psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the world–famous Skyros Holidays, creator of Imagework... (more)
Stairway to the Stars: Sufism, Gurdjieff and the Inner Tradition of Mankind
The book provides an introduction to mystical philosophy and the concept of inner development by looking at a number of its great schools. Mystics concur in saying that we are in some way "asleep"... (more)
Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the Twenty-First Century
Envision waking from a dream that felt 'big' and being able to understand why the characters, images and even landscapes appeared and what they are specifically communicating to you. What if you were... (more)
The Power Within: Becoming, Being, and the Holotropic Paradigm
'The Power Within is a treasure trove of important information for people involved in self-exploration and healing, as well as individuals who facilitate and support their process.”
- Stanislav... (more)
Initiations
The book explains in the simplest way, but one which reaches into the ultimate depths of the human soul, all the problems dealing with modern and ancient occult philosophy and spiritual searching, as... (more)
The Strange Life of P.D.Ouspensky
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a... (more)
G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep
Presents the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. This examination of a psychologist and teacher of genius also provides... (more)