Free Books and Essays

The following books and essays are available for free online. Explore the MAPS Store for more books.

History of Psychedelic Therapy

• Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25: Individual and Group Procedures
  by D.B, Blewett, Ph.D., and N. Chwelos, M.D. (1959)
• LSD Psychotherapy (Russian translation) | (Hungarian translation)
  by Stanislav Grof, M.D. (original copyright 1980; also available in English at maps.org/store)
• Remembrances of LSD Therapy Past
  by Betty Grover Eisner, Ph.D. (2002). — PDF | ePub | Mobi
• LSD My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
  by Albert Hofmann, Ph.D.

Psychedelics and Culture

• Defending Perceptual Diversity in America: Entheogens as Legitimate Contributors to Learning, Health, and Empathy
  by Brendan Bombaci (2012)
• Drugs & Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Consciousness
  by Walter Norman Pahnke. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University. (June 1963) (“The Good Friday Experiment”)
• Entheogenic Visions
  by Stewart Mosher (2012).
• The Ethnopharmacology of Ayahuasca
  edited by Rafael Guimarães dos Santos (2011).
  (Also available as individual chapters and in magazine format.)
• Guided by the Moon: Shamanism and the Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in the Santo Daime Religion in Brazil.
  by Edward McRae, PhD. Courtesy of the Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre Psicoativos (NEIP).
• The Sacred Voyage: The Pilgrimage to the Soul
  by Lars Faber (2006)
• The Yage Drinker
  by Fernando Payaguaje. (Donations will be forwarded to Pablo Yepez of the VIHOMA Foundation, who manages a small fund that supports Secoyas in need of medical treatment in Quito, Ecuador.)
• Ethnomycological Journals: Sacred Mushroom Studies
  by John W. Allen and Prakitsin Sihanonth, Ph.D. (2020)
• Ethnomycological Journals: Sacred Mushroom Studies Vol. XI by John W, Allen, Prakitsin Sihanonth, Ph.D., Jochen Gartz, Ph.D., Billy McPherson, and Simon Metke

Psychedelic Experience

• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
  by Aldous Huxley (1954, 2009)
• The Road To Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
  by Carl A. Ruck, Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jeremy Bigwood, Jonathan Ott, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith, and Danny Staples.
• Thanatos to Eros, 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration
  by Myron Stolaroff (1994)
• Through the Gateway of the Heart : Accounts of Experiences with MDMA and other Empathogenic Substances
  edited by Sophia Adamson and Ralph Metzner (1985)