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furthur
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Posted : Jan 25, 2004 19:05
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Finally, someone has mentioned RAW (Wilson), but I cannot believe we are forgetting Hesse: Steppenwolf, The Glass Bread Game, Siddhartha, etc., all very macuh worth the read.
Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law and of Lies should not be forgotten as I see his Diary was mentioned.
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Crying Lot of 49 and everything else he's written is very psychedelic (not so much his later stuff in my opinion)
Since so many people have thought of Huxley's Doors of Perception as they should have when thinking about psy lit, but what about Island, one of his best in my opinion.
Also, Don DeLillo's White Noise is very good, and the title alone should make it clear why I think this should be included in the list.
Now Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land should have definitely been much higher on my list, it is THE book that got me into this "lifestyle" at first when I was a teenager.
Kurt Vonnegut's novels are extremely funny and clearly qualify as psy.
Did someone mention Leary, because if he's not psychedelic, then noone is. His Intelligence Agents, Change Your Brain should all be required reading, and his and metzner's rendition of the Tibetan Book of the Dead under the title, the Psychedelic Experience, is indispensable.
Since so many people have brought up a lot of Russian lit, call me crazy, but I think Bunin is psychedelic.
The trippiest nonfiction is arguably Wittgenstein's tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
(Now I don't know if Henry Miller's novels are psychedelic, but they are definitely different if not mind-expanding, and the writing style alone makes them worth mentioning)
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SkyBluGoa
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Posted : Jan 25, 2004 19:36
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Gabriel Garcia Marques - One Hundred Years Of Solitude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Janux
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Posted : Jan 26, 2004 12:50
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William Blake. visionary and prophetic stuff with an
extremely wholistic point of view
he loves showing how what the norm considers 'evil' are actually qualities of energy and fire in our souls... inherantly positive things that have been labeled as negative because of human fears and insecurities in combination with a superiority complex that we have as a species.
Instead he says that true negativity comes from systems of thinking and doing that are dualistic.
Namely the ways of thinking that create the ideas of
Good & bad, black & white, and even past & future are the seeds of negativity in this world.
The psychadelic edge comes in with his literary style and his paintings, often with prose-poerty etched into them.
And the fact that his world view and philosophy strikes many similar chords that youthful (not only young by age) open minded travellers of this planet have as their world and personal philosophy
Amazing stuff.... if you want to start small, read a short piece he wrote called
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Try and find the version with his paintings included, the whole thing is actually written within paintings, but there are print versions available too.
If you want the full dose, get a hold of:
"The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake"
published under Anchor Books 1000 pages.
Some of his pieces are half a page, others are epic stories where he creates worlds and characters in order to imply conditions and things in the 'real' world.
and if you just want him for your wall, there are amazing prints of his artwork (a lot of his artwork was done on metal. Etchings, with text etched in. The etchings were used to make vivid color prints The images and the text in his pieces are in dialogue with one another, each adding meaning to the other.
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MellonCollie
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Posted : Feb 21, 2004 21:26
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mm, i can't believe i didn't see this thread..
.desolation angels - jack kerouac
.the book of laughter and forgetting - milan kundera
.faithless...the biography of marianne faithfull..if any1 knows who she is 
.the acid house and other stories- by irvine welsh
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Darkness, it lies waiting. Dormant but ever ready...to envelope us all. Embrace it or denounce it, one must pick a path. |
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Feb 21, 2004 23:00
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Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law and of Lies should not be forgotten as I see his Diary was mentioned.
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Diary of a Drug Fiend is a novel, not his actual diary, which is a good read as well..
his The Book of Thoth is, imo, his best magical work, written before he got too far into the cult of his own personality and things got weird. Magik in Theory and Practice is good, too. Definitely some good tips.. but beware - Crowley is like a well, and once you fall in... whuahahaha |
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furthur
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Posted : Feb 24, 2004 06:44
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That's why you're supposed to burn the book as soon as you've read it. But then again, as we are discussing the Book, we are already "to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence."
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mandelbrot
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Posted : Apr 2, 2005 02:20
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sorry for bringing up an old topic - but I am a new memebr here.
Susan Bkackmore -"Consciousness: An Introduction". This is a textbook actually, with discussion on philosophy writings, psychology experiments and etc. Looks at psychedelic experiences from a scientific perspective, but is is a very interesting and easy reading, and very informative. It makes you think.   |
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konflux
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Posted : Apr 3, 2005 08:30
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"Plants of the Gods" - Albert Hofmann et. al
- used it for a presentation on sacred plants in religion. damn interesting facts.
currently reading "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" by McKenna... very twisted mind he had... but in a very cool way...
anything by Hunter S. Thompson
very cool to see all the replies here and nice to know we all are expanding our (psychedelic) knowledge thru literature...
BOOM!! 
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Liquid-Vision
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Posted : Apr 3, 2005 21:36
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"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" is by Leary, not Terence McKenna.
Mckenna:
The Archaic Revival, The Invisible Land Scape, and Food of the gods all interesting books def. check them out!
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. |
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T E L L U S 2
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Posted : Apr 3, 2005 23:46
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Bulgakov rules
love love love........ |
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Yidam
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Posted : Apr 4, 2005 00:42
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"I CAN FEEL THE HEAT closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station"
- William S. Burroughs [Naked Lunch]
This book is the second greatest trip you can get from paper!
Oh yeah .. this isnt really 'Psy' ... but Snowcrash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson are my 2 favorites of all time. The visualisation of the future in those books have many aspects of psychedelia in it... amazing read.
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piXan
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Posted : Apr 4, 2005 19:05
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On 2003-07-31 05:34, le_lotus_604 wrote:
William Burroughs - hmm, Place of Dead Roads and Wild Boys also The Naked Lunch.
ok ok, Mr William is known to be a drug consumer
but his favorites themes and specially his
writting technic (cut-up if I remember) make him psy, words are like flashes heading directly to your brain
btw: if someone knows how to get the Naked Lunch movie on DVD, let me know
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hey ,, if drug use is an impediment for good writing, the i like crap literature:
William Burroughs (all kinds of opiates)
Ken Kesey (lsd user)
Aldous Huxley (the master of psychedelic literature) "Doors of perception"is better than the bible. (H used lots of mescaline and lsd)
Charles Baudelaire ( hashis inspired poetry, just great)
William Blake
and many many more
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Apr 4, 2005 23:43
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On 2005-04-04 19:05, piXan wrote:
Charles Baudelaire ( hashis inspired poetry, just great)
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more opium than hashish, afaik. if you like Baudelaire, check out Rimbaud and Mallarme as well. really good stuff.
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CRX(HSS Records)
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Posted : Apr 5, 2005 08:14
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acid biscuits-V/A
loneliness is made of sand-iro vamvounaki
marriage of heaven and hell-william blake
the politics of ecstacy-timothy leary
the cthulu anthology-P.H.lovecraft
metaphysics-socrates
there is an infinite list but check them for now.
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