RESOURCES
Here’s a handful of resources I’ve have found helpful and inspiring in understanding the larger landscape of plant medicines, indigeneity, and other issues & adjacent topics.
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A Compassionate Understanding of Underrepresented Populations
- 13th — Ava DuVernay
- Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How to be an Antiracist — Ibram X Kendi
- Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence — Resmaa Menakem, On Being with Krista Tippett
- My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem
- The Toxic Intersection of Poverty and Stress — Dr Robert Sapolsky
- The Urgent Need for Compassion — Alok Vaid-Menon
Addiction, Trauma, & The Body
For 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities
- A Queer Critique of the Psychedelic "Mystical Experience" — Dr Alexander Belser
- Healing Justice & Queer Spiritual Purpose — Prentis Hemphill on the Chitheads Podcast
- It’s Cool to Be Gay: Psychedelics, Sexuality and Self-Acceptance — Dr Clancy Cavnar
- Loving Someone Gay — Don Clark
- Psychedelics Are for Queer Folks, Too — Thomas Newton
- Queers, Faeries, & Revolutionaries in the Psychedelic Movement — Dr Gregory Wells
- Sexuality and the Transgender Necessity — Zhenevere Sophia Dao on the Chitheads Podcast
- Where are All the Queer People? — Dr Gregory Wells on Doubleblind Magazine
MEMOIRES & EXPLORATIONS
- Being Ram Dass — Ram Dass & Rameshwar Das
- Black People Trip — Robin Divine on Psychedelics Today
- Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism — Daniel Pinchbeck
- Fantastic Fungi — A Film by Louis Schwartzberg
- Healing the Mother Wound with Psychedelics — Micah Stover
- Heart Medicine: A True Love Story — One Couple's Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction — Elizabeth Bast
- How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence — Michael Pollan
- Love and Spirit Medicine — Shonagh Home
- The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge — Dr Jeremy Narby
- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell — Aldous Huxley
- The Wild Kindness — Bett Williams
On Indigeneity
Towards a More Beautiful World
- Andrew Harvey on Radical Passion — The Gaia Network
- How Soon Is Now?: A Handbook for Global Change — Daniel Pinchbeck
- Not in His Image — John Lamb Lash
- Sacred Activism and Radical Regeneration — Andrew Harvey on the Chitheads Podcast
- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible — Charles Eisenstein
- The Revolution of Reunion — Charles Eisenstein on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast
- These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home — Bayo Akomolafe
Wisdom & Perspective
- Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home — Toko-pa Turner
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear — Elizabeth Gilbert
- Care of the Soul — Dr Thomas Moore
- Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words — David Whyte
- Honoring Life — Sarah Blondin, Live Awake
- Man's Search for Meaning — Dr Viktor Frankl
- The Poetry of Self Compassion — David Whyte
- Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me — Sarah Blondin, Live Awake
Working with Medicines
- Brain Imaging with Psilocybin and MDMA — Dr Robin Carhart-Harris
- Doubleblind Magazine
- Drug Use for Grown-Ups — Dr Carl Hart
- Initiation — A documentary on Bwiti & Iboga
- Listening to Ayahuasca: A New Hope for Depression, Anxiety and PTSD — Dr Rachel Harris
- The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide — Dr James Fadiman
- MDMA Therapy for Trauma — Dr Katherine MacLean
- Microdosing Psychedelics — Samuel Douglas on the Third Wave
- Microdosing Protocols — Danielle Simone Brand on Doubleblind Magazine
- Psilocybin, Psychedelic Therapies & Mystical Experiences — Dr Roland Griffiths
- The Third Wave on Psychedelics
