Here are the books currently in TDC’s library. I don’t agree with or endorse all of the information in these texts. They provide some of the information that is used on the site.

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond (Amazon)

• Author: Martin A. Lee
• Published: 1985 (Revised in 1992)

Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal (Amazon)

• Author: Tom Shroder
• Published: 2014

Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House (Amazon)

• Author: Matthew Collin
• Published: 1997

The Ayahuasca Experience: A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits (Amazon)

• Author: Ralph Metzner
• Published: 2014

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Amazon)

• Author: Marc Lewis
• Published: 2015

Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Amazon)

• Author: Daniel Pinchbeck
• Published: 2002

Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna (Amazon)

• Author: Dennis McKenna
• Published: 2012

Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms (Amazon)

• Author: Grey Marley
• Published: 2010

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Amazon)

• Author: Johann Hari
• Published: 2015

The Dark Art: Undercover in the Global War Against Narco-Terrorism (Amazon)

• Authors: Douglas Century and Edward Follis
• Published: 2015

The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (Amazon)

• Author: Stewart Lee Allen
• Published: 1999

The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell (Amazon)

• Author: Aldous Huxley
• Published: 1954

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Amazon)

• Author: Sam Quinones
• Published: 2015

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (Amazon)

• Author: Terence McKenna
• Published: 1992

Good Cop, Bad War (Amazon)

• Author: Neil Woods
• Published: 2016

Hallucinations (Amazon)

• Author: Oliver Sacks
• Published: 2012

High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (Amazon)

• Author: Carl Hart
• Published: 2013

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Amazon)

• Author: Gabor Mate
• Published: 2007

Legally Stoned: 14 Mind-Altering Substances You Can Obtain and Use Without Breaking the Law (Amazon)

• Author: Todd A. Thies
• Published: 2009

Letters From Marion: A Deadhead’s Journey From Peace to a Supermax Prison (Amazon)

• Author: Joel Blaeser
• Published: 2015

Listening to Prozac (Amazon)

• Author: Peter Kramer
• Published: 1993

LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann (Amazon)

• Author: Albert Hofmann
• Published: 2013

LSD, My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science (Amazon)

• Author: Albert Hofmann
• Published: 1979

The Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs (Amazon)

• Author: Richard Alan Miller
• Published: 1983

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs (Amazon)

• Author: Marc Lewis
• Published: 2011

The Naturalist on the River Amazons (Amazon)

• Author: Henry Walter Bates
• Published: 1863

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Amazon)

• Author: Michelle Alexander
• Published: 2010

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World (Amazon)

• Author: Nicholas Schou
• Published: 2010

Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants (Amazon)

• Author: Peter Kramer
• Published: 2016

Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants (Amazon)

• Author: Louis Lewin
• Published: 1924

PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Amazon)

• Authors: Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
• Published: 1991

Plant Intoxicants: A Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants (Amazon)

• Author: Ernst von Bibra
• Published: 1855

Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Amazon)

• Authors: Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann
• Published: 1979

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Amazon)

• Authors: Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Ram Dass
• Published: 1964

The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (Amazon)

• Author: James Fadiman
• Published: 2011

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values (Amazon)

• Author: Thomas B. Roberts
• Published: 2013

The Religion of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime (Amazon)

• Author: Alex Polari de Alverga
• Published: 2010

Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom (Amazon)

• Author: Ralph Metzner
• Published: 2005

Sacred Mushrooms and the Law (Amazon)

• Author: Richard Glen Boire
• Published: 1997

Salvia Divinorum: Doorway to Thought-Free Awareness (Amazon)

• Author: J.D. Arthur
• Published: 2010

The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Amazon)

• Author: Wade Davis
• Published: 1985

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War (Amazon)

• Author: Lukasz Kamienski
• Published: 2016

TiHKAL: The Continuation (Amazon)

• Authors: Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
• Published: 1997

True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise (Amazon)

• Author: Terence McKenna
• Published: 1993

Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad (Amazon)

• Author: James Oroc
• Published: 2009

Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants & Rituals (Amazon)

• Authors: Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf
• Published: 1992

The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom (Amazon)

• Author: Laurence M. Vance
• Published: 2012

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants (Amazon)

• Author: Claudia Müller-Ebeling
• Published: 2003