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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Park Street Press; First Edition edition (May 18, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594774021
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594774027
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I first learned about this book when I was asked to read a pre-release version and help with some minor editing and formatting that the publisher asked for. It was not, frankly, a book I would have normally read otherwise.

After the first reading, I remember putting the manuscript down and thinking, "This is an important book, and it has to be out there."

The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide shows the surprising ways people are using psychedelics in healing, psychotherapy, and spiritual quests. One chapter describes the emerging trend of micro-dose usage: where people use tiny doses of psychedelics to improve their functioning at home, work and play.

I also remember how impressed I was to read about the early research using LSD to treat alcoholics who had failed all other treatments. The results were highly effective, even in these formerly hopeless cases.

Jim Fadiman is a gentle, intelligent and engaging storyteller, and this book reflects his personality. I recommend it to you highly.
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With the publication of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, James Fadiman has inaugurated a new era of spiritual and practical exploration of inner space. Mind you, he didn't invent or even rediscover the spiritual use of entheogens, nor the psychotherapeutic exploration of psychoactive plants and chemicals, but this guidebook represents a bold re-emergence of an ancient healing practice.

Fadiman, a co-founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and author most recently of an undergraduate psychology textbook and The Other Side of Haight: A Novel, is a champion of psychedelic guiding. He's been around since the giddy big bang of psychedelic culture, and now, gladly, and with hope, turns the keys to guided journeys over to the grandchildren of that distant revolution. There's plenty by and about him on the web, if you're curious.

Fadiman gets right to the guided session instruction without disclaimers and apologies--a courteous gesture considering we've waited for more than a generation already. The guidebook is replete with suggestions for both guide and voyager regarding everything from music, food and lighting to finer aesthetic points. The six aspects of the well-conceived voyage are set and setting (which you knew), but also: substance, sitter, session, and situation. The six stages of a voyaging session are all simple and easily spelled out, as well, but this is rather like saying most of the paintings in the Louvre are made with canvas, brushes and paint: within Fadiman's simple protocol exists a universe of possibilities.
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A brilliant and thoughtful book by one of the leading proponents of safe and responsible use of psychedelics, primarily LSD.

Although he acknowledges the spiritual power of entheogenic substances the main focus of the book is how to use these substances to enhance creativity. Based on his own research - together with Willis Harman - in the 60s. As well as eye witness accounts from recent times. Also touching on the (controversial) subject of regular use of low dose LSD in every day (work) life.

The book has many scopes. accounts of the mind and career changing events for the early pioneers like Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Huston Smith and Stan Grof. Interviews with James Fadiman himself taken from Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology.)and Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties

Although Fadiman clearly defines himself as a law abiding citizen this book DO contain some well thought out and reasonable criteria for a succesful session. Especially focusing on the need of an experienced guide (who does NOT- unlike in the Leary experiments - take the substance her self). Personally I think there can be arguments for self experimentation with out outside helpers - as described in The Acid Diaries: A Psychonaut's Guide to the History and Use of LSD.
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I've been waiting years for someone with the proper qualifications to come along and write this book. Hands down, this is the very best guide book that exists on how to prepare for a safe and therapeutic psychedelic journey, with positive psychological transformation as one's goal. It is the most important book written on the subject since The Psychedelic Experience--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner's classic adaptation of the The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which was published in 1964. Before psychologist James Fadiman's book, this was a subject that desperately needed attention by someone who really understands what psychedelic drugs can do to the human mind. Drawing from his own personal experience as a psychedelic researcher, Fadiman presents the fascinating results from his clinical studies into how psychedelics can enhance creativity and improve problem-solving abilities, in the context of a clearly-explained guide book. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide can be used as a training manual and reference by professionals in the blossoming field of psychedelic psychotherapy, as well as by outlaw shamans who defy government regulations to engage in illegal forms of self-exploration. Anyone interested in the subject for educational purposes will find this book hard to put down. This comprehensive volume is simply bursting at the seams with rare, valuable, and well-organized information about how to get the most from a psychedelic journey. Invaluable at dispelling the many myths and misconceptions that are associated with this controversial subject, this extraordinary volume provides essential guidelines on how to run a psychedelic session, and presents little-known techniques for using sub-perceptual doses to improve mental functioning, along with new information from surveys, clinical studies, group sessions, and personal anecdotes. Very highly recommended; absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.
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