Why am I passionate about this?

I am passionate about exploring consciousness using psychedelics, meditation, and the dreamscape because it leads us toward our greatest human potential. Psychedelics have been my main tool for exploring consciousness, and I want to share how they can be safely used to access our greatest psychic gifts and, in particular, to lovingly share consciousness telepathically with others to explore the infinite living cosmos together.


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The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness

By Wade Richardson,

Book cover of The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness

What is my book about?

My book teaches psychonauts how to work in pairs to telepathically share consciousness and explore the nature of the universe.…

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The books I picked & why

Book cover of Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-MeO-DMT Energetic Therapy

Wade Richardson Why did I love this book?

This book is at the leading edge of providing expert insights and techniques for advanced use of psychedelics, particularly 5-MeO-DMT. Martin Ball validated the profundity of my years of working with psychedelics and fractal energetic yoga. He provided me with new techniques and thought forms for working one-on-one with others in sharing consciousness, clearing energetic blockages, and delving into the infinitude of nonduality.

I found his description of the ego as an energetic construct particularly valuable for understanding how we navigate the physical world and its positive and negative impact on the body's energetics. I also benefited from his knowledge of the opportunities and challenges associated with using psychedelics.

By Martin W. Ball,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Entheogenic Liberation as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the author of the groundbreaking book, Being Human, comes a radical newguide to personal liberation and transformation. Written by one of the world’sleading authorities on nonduality and psychedelic experience, Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.,Entheogenic Liberation is the definitive work on 5-MeO-DMT and its applicabilityto genuine enlightenment and freedom from the illusory prison of the ego. With wisdom and guidance culled from years of direct therapeutic work, this book laysout precise and detailed instructions and methodologies for working with the world’s most powerful entheogenic medicine for the purpose of achieving liberationinto the fundamental unitary state of being. Presented as a form…


Book cover of The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys

Wade Richardson Why did I love this book?

I loved how this book provided me with the most expansive maps of the territory of consciousness to be explored using psychedelics. In the two-volume set, Stanislav Grof summarizes his lifetime’s wisdom of personal discovery and working with thousands of people using high-dose psychedelics and Holotropic Breathwork.

I learned about the paramountcy of set and setting and how my biography, including prenatal and ancestral roots, can influence my psychonautical exploration. I further learned about how trauma is stored in the body as systems of condensed experience (COEXs), how it can be released when using psychedelics, other benefits and challenges of using psychedelics, and the nature of the spiritual emergency. Grof also taught me more about navigating archetypes and the cosmos and connecting to the powers of synchronicity.

By Stanislav Grof,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1 as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Way of the Psychonaut, Volume 1 is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. 

The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD―the microscope and telescope of the human psyche―as well as other psychedelic substances. 

This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology and psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, psychospiritual rebirth, the roots of trauma, spiritual emergency and transpersonal experiences, karma and reincarnation, higher creativity, great art, and archetypes. Written in his late eighties, at…


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City of Mann by L. Ross Coulter,

On the planet of the Sentient Cities, City of Mann is by all accounts an ordinary city. Leaving his home for Epicurea where he gets his first job as an intern at CitiCorp, life as a grown up City could not be any better. But as the questions of existence…

Book cover of LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven

Wade Richardson Why did I love this book?

This book chronicles the heroic journey of Christopher Bache’s 73 high-dose LSD sessions over twenty years and how these sessions impacted his life.

His story was a testament to me of the incredible hard work and persistence required to clear the body of energetic blockages when using psychedelics to reach the highest states of consciousness, including tapping into the cosmic creative principle of the living universe, exploring hell and heavenly realms, and nonduality. I loved how compelling and inspiring Bache’s story is.

By Christopher M. Bache,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked LSD and the Mind of the Universe as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions conducted over the course of 20 years

* Chronicles, with unprecedented rigor, the author's systematic journey into a unified field of consciousness that underlies all physical existence

* Makes a powerful case for the value of psychedelically induced spiritual experience and discusses the challenge of integrating these experiences into everyday life

* Shows how psychedelic experience can take you beyond self-transformation into collective transformation and help birth the future of humanity

On November 24, 1979, Christopher M. Bache took the first step on what would become…


Book cover of Otherwhere: A Field Guide for Astral Travelers

Wade Richardson Why did I love this book?

While this book is not about the use of psychedelics, I loved how this book on astral travel provided me with expansive maps of what realms and beings can be explored in the infinitude of consciousness when using psychedelics.

Leland provided me insights into a long list of energetically advanced beings, whom he defines by their function, who can be called into psychedelic sessions for guidance and help. He also taught me how my biography and cultural beliefs can create the visual personal experience of cosmic energies experienced during psychonautical explorations.

Learning the nuances of using thought forms to create my immediate reality and experience was of the greatest value to me: awareness follows thought, and when out of the body, thought manifests itself instantly.

By Kurt Leland,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Otherwhere as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION* I wrote Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler in the early 1990s to sum up nearly twenty years of out-of-body adventures that began when I was fifteen years old.

These adventures took me into nonphysical realms in which time and space behaved differently, "quite other" than we normally experience them--hence the name Otherwhere. I explored the locations where our dreams occur and where we find ourselves after death. It took me nearly ten years to find a publisher, but when Otherwhere came out in 2001, it sold well and went into…


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The Tao of Inner Peace by Diane Dreher,

With its lively, demystifying approach, The Tao of Inner Peace shows how the Tao can be a powerful and calming source of growth, inspiration, and well-being in times of conflict and anxiety.

This timely guide to the timeless wisdom of the Tao Te Ching shows how to: bring greater joy,…

Book cover of The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions

Wade Richardson Why did I love this book?

This book is a tome of Ken Wilber's lifetime wisdom. His book thoroughly explores a vast range of states of consciousness that helped me navigate the vastness of psychedelic experiences. More importantly, Wilber’s wisdom helped me integrate years of psychedelic experiences through his philosophy of integral theory and concepts of Growing Up, Waking Up, Cleaning Up, and Showing Up. And, funny enough, Wilber does not discuss psychedelics, yet his book is a psychonaut's guide to the universe.

This book rates in the top five books I have ever read. I felt heavily rewarded for the time and effort required to work through this epic book.

By Ken Wilber,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Religion of Tomorrow as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A provocative examination of how the great religious traditions can remain relevant in modern times by incorporating scientific truths learned about human nature over the last century

A single purpose lies at the heart of all the great religious traditions: awakening to the astonishing reality of the true nature of ourselves and the universe. At the same time, through centuries of cultural accretion and focus on myth and ritual as ends in themselves, this core insight has become obscured.
 
Here, Ken Wilber provides a path for re-envisioning a religion of the future that acknowledges the evolution of humanity in every…


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The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness

By Wade Richardson,

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What is my book about?

My book teaches psychonauts how to work in pairs to telepathically share consciousness and explore the nature of the universe. Shared consciousness allows participants to jointly engage in each other’s unconscious contents, super-consciousness, and non-duality. Co-melders can fully experience each other’s emotions, contribute to processing and releasing each other’s traumas, jointly journey to other worlds and dimensions, meet discarnate beings, and finally drop into the infinite, non-dual “Clear Light Mind.”

It is an advanced self-guided manual that provides techniques for entering the mindmeld, a map of the territory of consciousness to be explored, safe set and setting, challenges and how to overcome them, potential results, and a format for debriefing and integrating telepathic sessions.

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