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Noetic Fund’s Sa’ad Shah is often asked for his favourite books on entheogens and the complex workings of our psyche.

We would like to share his booklist of personal favourites to inform and amaze you.

Happy reading!

The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayhuasca Experience, by Benny Shanon

Ayahuasca in My Blood, by Peter Gorman

The Cosmic Serpent, by Jeremy Narby

Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake

Entheogens and the Future of Religion, edited by Robert Forte

Good Chemistry, by Julie Holland

How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Maté

Inner Paths to Outer Space, by Rick Strassman, Slawek Wojtowicz, Luis Eduardo Luna & Ede Frecska

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, by Mark Wolynn

LSD and the Mind of the Universe, by Dr. Christopher M. Bache

Mycelium Running, by Paul Stamets

One River, by Wade Davis

Plants of the Gods, by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann & Christian

Psychedelics and Spirituality: The Sacred Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation, by Roger Walsh & Thomas Roberts

Psychedelic Medicine, by Dr. Richard Louis Miller

Sacred Knowledge, by William A. Richards

Shamanism, by Michael Winkelman

Supernatural, by Graham Hancock

The Contemplative Brain, by Dr. Charles D. Laughlin

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa

The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine, by Dr. Joe Tarfur & Dr. Dr. Gabor Maté

The Harvard Psychedelic Club, by Don Lattin

The Immortality Key, by Brian Muraresku

The Psychedelic Explorers Guide, by James Fadiman

The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Peter Webster & Huston Smith

The Way of the Psychonaut Volumes 1, by Stan Grof

The Way of the Psychonaut Volumes 2 by Stan Grof

The Wayfinders, by Wade Davis

This is Your Mind on Plants, by Michael Pollan

Transfigurations, by Alex Grey

When the Impossible Happens, by Stan Grof