The Best Books About Psychedelics & Consciousness

While Michael Pollan’s How To Change Your Mind is arguably the most famous book about psychedelics in recent years, there are many others, including Acid Trip, which is a biography of one of my personal heroes, Rick Doblin. (Rick is the head of MAPS, responsible for the decades long push to legalize and reschedule many psychedelics for therapeutic purposes.) When it comes to consciousness, every time I try to scratch that itch, I’m reminded that I know…nothing. And that we collectively know very little. But it is still one of my favorite areas of study.

Please, as always, drop recommendations in the comments, I am always all ears for more books to read. The link below will take you to a shelf I curated on Bookshop with my picks—I earn an affiliate commission there, but it is ALWAYS MY PREFERENCE that you shop at and support your local bookseller, so no pressure to buy via Bookshop. This is the easiest way for me to organize and keep picks updated. Happy reading!