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A superbly, creatively paradoxical book. This book doesn’t just set forth, dogmatically and For Timothy Leary, drugs are useful tools to reprogram your brain circuits—while having exclusively, a set of ideas held by the author to be ‘objectively true’, it puts forward a set of ideas a good time in the process. How to Change Your Brain is a compilation of Leary’s earliest which enter into paradoxical (critical) relationships with each other, stimulating the reader to take up work at Harvard on “re-imprinting” your brain and the outrage it provoked in stodgy a critical position towards the book hirself. If intelligence rests on a critical attitude, then this book will increase your intelligence. Philosophy as art and dance. corners of professional and academic psychology. Filled with inside stories and Leary’s 240 pgs • $17.95 • 978-1-57951-148-7 keen observations of hyprocracy which he reveals with his characteristic humorous cynicism. High Priest Timothy Leary, PhD, Foreword by ISBN 978-0914171805 $19.95 Start Your Own Religion Chronicles Timothy Leary’s experiences on 16 early, formative psychedelic trips before LSD was illegal. Timothy Leary The “high priests” include Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Huston Smith, and Preface: Scoop Nisker Frank Baron. Each chapter includes an I Ching reading and a chronicle of a trip, along with marginalia of 978-1-57951-073-2, 240 pp • $14 comments and quotations, and illustrations. You and your friends can do anything that the great religions and empires have done in the name of their Gods. You can choose your God to be smart, compassionate, cute and goofy. Create a cult comprised of Leary is a hero of American consciousness. —Allen Ginsburg your family and friends, then develop a personal mythology and write your own New Testament. Religious, Collector’s Edition signed by Timothy Leary and numbered $100.00 mystical visionary possession states are powerful and wonderful. They open the doors of perception, polish our sensory lenses, and shake up the autonomic nervous system. The Politics Turn On, Tune In, of Ecstasy Drop Out CyberPunks Search for Alternatives Timothy Leary Timothy Leary Foreword Jeffrey CyberFreedom the True to Involuntary Foreword by Tom Robbins, Mishlove, PhD Timothy Leary Aphrodisiac Death 152 pp • $16.95 192 pp • $12.95 Timothy Leary Intro by R.U. Sirius 978-1-57951-084-8 Timothy Leary 222 pp • $16.95 978-1-57951-009-1 124 pp -$12.95 1 pp • $12.95 Change Reality Screens! 978-1-57951-088-6 978-1-57951-031-02 Leary at his best, beckoning with humor 978-1-57951-087-9 Reboot your brain—often! Sex is the Exploration of human and irreverence, visionary of individual No more pious wimpy empowerment, personal responsibility and Our brains are only in operation when they are highest form of consciousness during the “Summer talk about death. Time spiritual awakening. slamming bytes and bits of information back communication. of Love.” Ramifications of and forth—multimedia communication. Brains Imaginaiton governs sexual desire. to talk cheerfully and joke sassily about psychedelic experience. Timothy Leary—in his own inimitable way— want to hook up with other brains. Includes Explores the anxieties taboos around personal responsibility for managing the interview revealing the sexual power of LSD; an outline of has become the twentieth century’s The Cyberpunk Manifesto by Christian A. sex. The brain is the ultimate organ of dying process. Dying is the most fascinating Kirtchev who calls cyberfreedrom sekers to pleasure—if you know how to use it. the neurological theory that became Leary’s classic eight- grand master of crazy wisdom…. experience in life. Design your own death! . action. Leary says, Think for yourself; qustion Leary explains how. circuit model. . —Jeffrey Mishlove authority. Chaos is good. Chaos creates infinite possibiities.

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History, botany, pharmacology, physical effects, Dr. Atomic’s Marijuana Multiplier 512 pp • $38.95 Larry S. Todd $11.95, 96 pp • 978-1-57951-003-9 978-0-914171-51-5 A concise, readable description of increasing the potency of marijuana. With ’s humorous drawings Psychedelic Chemistry of “Dr. Atomic,” this book is an amusing and helpful guide to hash oil production and the unique process of Micheal Valentine Smith isomerization. Isomerization converts inactive cannabinoids to THC. Includes information on making hash oil $24.95 • 194 pp • 978-1-57951-190-6 from marijuana or hashish and recipes for cooking medicinal treats with hash oil.Cartoons. Out-of-print for years, and impossible to find Psychedelic Chemistry includes MarijuanaTHC and analogs, magic Mushrooms and other indole trips, and friends,harmaline and other beta- carbolines, muscimole and other isoxazoles, LSD, , miscellaneous psychedelics, literature and chemical information, miscellany on underground laboratories, role of the DEA labs in drug busts . . . Confessions of a Dope Dealer and more! Psychedelic Chemistry is the biggest, best and most complete book every written on how to Sheldon Norberg $19.95, 350 pp • 978-1-57951-032-9 make psychedelic drugs. The most complete book ever written on how to manufacture psychedelic drugs. An All-American ODDyssey, a deeply intimate portrait into the mysterious and hidden world of drug Requires thorough knowledge of lab techniques in organic chemistry. dealing. Norberg’s life acts as a model for him to analyze how our cultural values and underlying drug Cocaine - Petigrilli Psychedelics $14.95 • 144 pp • 978-0-914171-18-8 use styles create a foundation for misuse of every drug that comes along. A must read for parents and ISBN: 9781579512187 $16.95 Peter Stafford teens and a valuable to young adults, therapists, people seeking interesting spiritual insights, or simply Classic novel charts the comedy andProvides a framework for understanding the desiring a good read. pathos of a young man’s tragic trajec-enormous information available on psychoactive tory. Tito Arnaudi is a dandified herosubstances. Stafford relays the history, botany, with several mistresses he juggles. Titochemistry, physical and mental effects, forms, Cannabis Alchemy: is hired as a journalist in Paris, where hesources, and preparations of LSD—the most potent and representative of class of drugs called The Art of Modern Hash Making investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths thatpsychedelics. D. Gold $16.95 he sells to newspapers, as his own life 128 pp • 978-0-914171-40-9 becomes more outrageous. Cult classic, revised and updated. Alchemist D. Gold reveals the inner world of marijuana and hashish, uncovering secrets and modern techniques to enhance potency. First published in 1974, Cocaine Fiends and Reef- Pleasures of Cocaine its previous editions sold 100,000 copies, making this one of the all-time best-sellers of the er Madness: An Illustrated Adam Gottlieb, Illus Larry Todd counterculture. History of Drugs in the Movies 147 pp • $16.95 978-0-914171-81-2 Michael Starks, isbn: 9781579511890 Conveys the impartial facts of the uses and abuses of cocaine. History, effects, Cannabis Underground Library Exhaustive exploration of histor with over uses, pleasures, dangers • How to get Seven Rare Classics 400 silent and 1,000 sound films as well as pleasure from cocaine without suffering Adam Gottlieb, Mary Jane Superweed & C.E. Farber nearly 500 drug-abuse films, 85 experimen- abusive side effects • Determining Seven rare classics back in print and bound into a single book! Includes Dr. Atomic’s Marijuana tal films, and 135 television programs -- quality and improving appearance • What Multiplier, Marijuana Consumer’s and Dealer’s guide, Pot Book, Super Grass Grower’s Guide, Ancient many very rare. Arranged chronologically substances are used to cut coke and their and Modern Methods of Growing Extraordinary Marijuana, Supermother’s Cooking with Grass, Guide as well as by drug type and often by country. Book shows that, effects • An inside look at buying and dealing • Cultivation of far from being a recent phenomenon, drug films were made in to Growing Cannabis Under Flourescents. Some of the classics have been expanded, updated and coca plant. Illustrations. released as separate books, available elsewhere in this catalog. nearly every country and period that produced a significant body of films. $19.95 155 pp • $17.95 978-0-914171-71-3

RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore The Book of Sacraments: The Little Book of Acid Black : Opium Poppy Garden Ritual Use of Magical Plants Cam Cloud Ecstasy of the Forbidden The Way of a Chinese Grower John Mann & Adam Gotlieb 96 pp • $12.95 978-0-914171-88-1 Claude Farrere ISBN:9781579512163 William Griffith96 pp • $14.95 978-0-914171-67-6 ISBN: 9781579512101 $20.00 Explores psychedelic experience brings heroin’s sexy visions to life. Guide to cultivating and harvesting. The poppy identifies over 20 magical plants for ritual use The world of black opium is a forbid- and its effects, including creativity, is one of the most potent flowers in the herbal and tells how to prepare the potion and oneself psychotherapy, and spiritual insight. den world where human bodies find for the journey and gives instructions for classic themselves possessed and driven by de- pharmacopoeia and has been used to alleviate Reveals the acid underground rituals as well as creating one’s own variations. sires which consume them in the flamesdiscomfort for millennia. Combines literary and Finally it discusses how to process the experi- trafficking and how acid is packaged of hot-blooded ecstasy, Black Opium instructional writing with technical information ence afterwards to gain the maximum benefit and distributed. Describes varieties describes every aspect of an opium on cultivation and pharmacology to provide a from the journey.. The mind has self-healing of acid from blotter to windowpane. smoker’s life in lurid detail. working knowledge of the exotic opium poppy. $17.95 power. Spiritual experiences can lead to dramatic healing. Guidelines Acid trips both good and bad and how acid effects people’s Illustrated. for employing such practices in one’s personal worship. lives. Discusses natural sources of acid-like chemical found The Little Book of Opium Acid Trips and Chemistry Francis Moraes, PhD 96 pp • $12.95 978-1-57951-018-3 Cam Cloud Opium has been used as drug, both medicinal and recreational, longer than any other substance—over 160 pp • $16.95 978-1-57951-011-4 7000 years. Today opium and its derivatives are the most controlled drugs. Little Book of Opium Acid is believed to be a powerful tool for personal growth and development. Acid Trips and Chemistry discusses opium pharmacology and how it acts upon the body and explains how heroin is derived and documents the effects acid has on the mind and body, giving tales of experiences of what an acid trip can how methadone works. Information in this book aids in harm reduction for people using opium and helps be like. It describes acid’s chemistry, including formulas. Discusses the discovery of LSD, its effects on people understand medical uses of opium and morphine. Illustrated. creativity, the spiritual nature of tripping, laws regarding acid, the causes of a bad trip, and the process of

Heroin User’s Handbook The Little Book of Heroin 96 pp • $12.95 Kava-Kava: Sacred Healing Francis Moraes, PhD Francis Moraes, PhD 978-0-914171-98-0 Heavenly Highs Isbn: 9781579512293 + $19.95 Covers history and evolution from opium to E.F. Steinmetz MD Peter Stafford 978-1-57951-06895, 144 pp • $12.95 Brew- Discusses all aspects of heroin use: the morphine to heroin; how heroin is procured Isbn: 9781579512316 - $15.95 Plants that release the god within—used by acquisition of drugs, the administra- on the “street”, how it is chemically purified; Kava is rapidly becoming a healthy, Shaman and psychedelic explorers. Includes tion of them, health risks, legal issues, ways used and diseases junkies get; methods natural alternative to alcohol and social aspects, and addiction and detox. DMT in psychedelic snuff, —a bitter tranquilizers, and a welcome addition of detox and the real danger of “sudden beverage that triggers visionary experiences with It provides the non-heroin world with to social gatherings or spiritual circles. a detailed look inside a very rarefied death”. Replaces myth with solid information plant gods, Ibogain—a yellow root ingested by Explores history, botany, chemistry, subculture. useful to users, their families and helping indigenous people for visionary experiences, and culture, and use as alt to booze.Visit a professionals. Illustrated. Kava Bar today to try something new. Belladona, Yohimbe and Kava-Kava. The Little Book of Legal Highs: An Encyclopedia of Legal Herbs Coca: Divine Plant of the Incas - Kit Kelly, Foreword by James Kent & Chemicals with Psychoactive Properties Mortimer, M.D. Isbn: 9781579512460 Ketamine causes bizarre experiences unlike any other psychedelic drug. History from its discovery to When chewed, coca is a mild stimulant Adam Gottlieb 80 pp • $12.95 978-0-914171-46-1 use at raves. Extraordinary stories of ketamine’s effects while being mindful of what is myth and what is and suppresses hunger, thirst, pain, and reality. Tells of ketamine’s dangers and how to minimize them. Information about John Lilly, MD—the A concise encyclopedia of legal herbs fatigue. As an anesthetic, alleviates most famous K user— and DM Turner—considered to be a shaman—who died on ketamine. For the lay- and chemicals that possess psychoactive pain of headache and sores. Presents properties - relatively unknown to the public an exhaustive, encyclopedic look at the reader. Information from Dr. Karl Jansen, the foremost researcher of ketamine, on how K may produce and the legislatures. Includes how they can to plant’s history and pharmacology. Filled out-of-body and near-death experiences. Illustrated. 96 pp • $12.95 978-0-914171-97-3 obtaine and use, and effects Illustrated. with rare illustrations and diagrams $17.95 Ecstasy: The MDMA Story LAUGHING GAS Psychedelic Underground Library: Nine Rare Classics Bruce Eisner, Foreword by Stanley Sheldon, Salyer, & Wallechinsky 190 pp • $24.95 978-0-914171-66-9 Krippner, PhD, Intro by Peter Stafford Fascinating history of gas— pharmacological developments; Adam Gottlieb & Mary Jane Superweed, Preface by Dan Joy Psychological effects, erotic implications, dangers, precautions and recent Now back in print and bound into a single book! Unabridged, nine rare classics from Gottlieb and methods of use, health risks, chemical structure discoveries; drawings, lithographs Supreweed: The Book of Acid, and other Psychoactive Cacti, Psilocybin Producer’s Guide, Drug and analogues, chemical synthesis of MDMA and photographs; personal Manufacturing for Fun and Profit, Herbal Aphrodisiacs, Herbal Highs, Home Grown Highs, Cocaine by pharmacologist Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin.. experiences and ruminations. Tester’s Handbook, and Freebase Cocaine. Illustrated. Some of the classics have been expanded, updated Appendices, Bibliography, illustrations. 128 pp • $18.95 • 978-0-914171-52-2 and released as separate books, available elsewhere in this catalog. 978-0-914171-68-3 • 190 pp • RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore Shrooms & Psilocybin Drugs & Antiquity Divine Mushrooms & Fungi - John W. Allen Mind-blowing descriptions of the hallucinations from the dis- solute and disintegrating to the mystical and profound. How Gynomorphs: Goddesses with Peniuses to find and identify magic mushrooms. Make cultures, spores, David Hillman, PhD • $14.95 • 192 pp, 978-1-57951-171-5 spore prints, and rye grain spawn supported by an abundance of Mythic roots of Western European spirituality. By joining cults, called Mysteri beautiful, detailed photos that are a must have for the amateur to “She-Males, Sodomy and Snake Venom” reveals the stunning practices of sexually centered cults that formed the foundation of professional mycologist. $24.95 • 978-1-57951-186-9 • 200 pp ancient religion and civilization. This book exposes the intricate Sexy, Sacred Mushrooms power structure of Greco-Roman priestly colleges, their heavy reliance upon drugs, and their fascination with extreme orgiastic Embellished chronicle of author’s experiences with sacred mushrooms and sexual erotica. Features prehistorical evidence of erotic activities between activities deemed taboo by the modern world. humans, animals, sex and mushrooms, and phallic symbolism, rites of spring and fertility festivals. Isbn: 9781579512088, 200 pp, $20.00 Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape & the Church David Hillman, PhD, $14.95 • 160 pp • 978-1-57951-144-9 Growing Wild Mushrooms Mushroom Wisdom: Cultivating Describes how Church fathers ritually sodomized young boys, with the purpose of driving out Cultivating Edible & Hal- the Devil to “save” their souls. How Church policies were created that institutionalized these Spiritual Consciousness abhorrent practices while systematically undermining and dismantling classical beliefs in science lucinogenic Mushrooms Martin Bell, Ph.D. and reason as well as respect for women, to create a male-dominated anti-intellectual power Bob Harris • $12.95 $14.95 • 192 pp • 978-1-57951- structure in which pedophilia became viewed as a “holy” ritual. 96 pp, • 1-57951-066-3 036-7 Examines the mystical and shamanic Complete beginner’s guide. aspects of psilocybin mushrooms from Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: The Secrets of Eleusis Step-by-step instructions, philosophical and experiential perspectives. Carl A. P. Ruck $14.95 • 192 pp • 978-1-57951-030-5 with drawings and Unlike traditional and indigenous uses Delves into the mythic roots of Western European spirituality. By joining cults, called photographs—16 in full of psilocybin mushrooms, this brings Mysteries, the ancients were afforded an experience of personal communication with deity, color—to introduce the universal and culturally-transcendent involving secrets of actions and meanings that were hidden. Divulging these secrets was reader to the full range of growing methods, from aspects of mushroom-based spirituality prohibited, under penalty of death. The Mysteries all involved a sacramental Eucharist—a sterile culture procedures to indoor bottle gardens to to light with practical approaches and sacred drink containing psychoactive chemicals derived from a mushroom parasite that grows indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Peyote & Other Growing the Hallucinogens Entheogens, Myth & Human Consciousness How to Cultivate and Harvest Psychoactive Cacti Carl Ruck, PhD & Mark Hoffman Adam Gottlieb Psychoactive Plants • • $12.95 • 96 pp • 978-0-914171-95-9 Adam Gottlieb $16.95 180 pp 978-1-57951-141-8 Cultivating Peyote and other $12.95 • 90 pp • 978-0-914171-56-0 Explains why so many mythologies and religions tell similar storiesand how those tales of psychoactive cacti, extracting active Techniques for cultivation and harvesting psychoactive sacraments are part of common cultural references, from the head of the Medusa to properties, obtaining seeds, cloning and hallucinogenic and psychoactive plants. the Norse gods’ powers to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to Alice’s grafting, and extracting maximum output Written in careful detail by an expert Adventures in Wonderland. of mescaline and other alkaloids, and horticulturist. Glossary legal aspects by attorney Richard Glen Psilocybin Production Hallucinogenic and Poison- Adam Gottlieb ous Mushroom Field Guide $14.95 • 96 pp •,978-0-914171-92-8 Gary Menser Concise, readable info. Producing $19.95 • 146 pp • 978-0-914171-89-8 Magic Mushrooms Peter Stafford $14.95 • 144 pp • 978-0-914171-19-5 psilocybin in a small room for Identify, collect, and dry wild mushrooms. Describes the dramatic effects experienced when consuming psychoactive mushrooms. Over maximum output. Find mushrooms; Detailed drawings, habitat, fruiting cycle 100 “entheogenic” fungi are known to stimulate ecstatic states in curious seekers. Psychedelic develop stock cultures for inoculation; and geographical range. The chemical writer, Stafford recounts the history of magic mushrooms, also called “sacred” mushrooms, and cultivating, harvesting, and drying the qualities of poisonous and psychoactive describes how these extraordinary mind-changers are psychically relaxing and focusing, catalyst mycelium; extracting active alkaloids; fungi explained. Illustrations using the existing cultures to seed new to creative breakthroughs.

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Be Safe! SEX DIARY OF A METAPHYSICIAN Steven C. Shepard, PhD Colin Wilson • Intro by Timothy Leary Useful info How fires starT. Conduct a The erotic and spiritual adventures of Gerard Sorme— with a climax of scandal, sex, evil obsessions, and fire drill. Make your home escape-ready. Satanism. Uses sexual satire as a philosophical Where to hide if trapped, and more. This medium, to bring us face to face with the paradox book can save your home, your life and of male sexuality.Foretold the sexual revolution, your family. psychedelia, and the New Age. 256 pp • $14.95 • 978-

WANDERING OF A SPIRITUALIST RITUAL IN THE DARK Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle Colin Wilson 299 pp • $16.95 • 978-0-914171-23-2 416 pp • $14.95 • 978-0-914171-63-8 Conan-Doyle’s Spiritualist writings have Story of Gerard Sorme as he moves into the not been widely published, even though murky world of sex murders and the dichotomy he is one of the most popular writers of all between dreams and reality. This Wilson classic time, having authored the wildly popular helped launch his career as the foremost of Sherlock Holmes series. England’s “Angry Young Men” of the 1950s.

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