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The Abbot’s Ghost (1867) – a Christmas ghost story. “...this place used to be an abbey, in fact as well as in name... Some say many of the monks still glide about the older parts of the abbey, for Roland spared the chapel and the north gallery which joined it to the modern building. Poor fellows, they are welcome, and once a year they shall have a chance to warm their ghostly selves by the great fires always kindled at Christmas in the gallery.” $9.99

Perilous Play (1869) – a romantic adventure story about affluent youths experimenting with hashish, written when cannabis was legal and was gaining popularity among the more daring of the intellectual and artistic elite. Louisa May Alcott is one of America’s most widely recognized authors, whose classics like Little Women have become cultural icons. Less well known are her association with Emerson and Thoreau and her involvement in the utopian community movement. $4.99

Pallinghurst Barrow (1892) – a Gothic tale of supernatural horror set amidst the ancient barrow mounds of Britain. A dose of a cannabis tincture prescribed as a headache remedy is the catalyst for a deadly encounter with the spirits of Neolithic pagans who practiced human sacrifice rituals millennia ago among the mounds and standing stones. First published in the Illustrated London News. The author was a noted biologist, an early proponent of the theory of evolution. $9.99

Hemp in Kentucky (1900) – a classic essay on the history of the hemp (cannabis) industry in Kentucky, first published as a prelude to the novel The Reign of Law. “The nostril expands quickly; the lungs swell out deeply to draw it in: fragrance once known in childhood, ever in the memory afterward and able to bring back to the wanderer homesick thoughts of midsummer days in the shadowy many toned woods over into which is blown the smell of the hemp fields.” $4.99

I Did See the Flying Disks (1948) – this UFO sighting triggered the “flying saucer” craze of the 1950s. The author, a private pilot, observed seven highly reflective circular objects flying at high speed at an altitude of 9,500 feet. “They flew, as I have frequently observed geese fly, in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together. They seemed to hold a definite direction, but swerved in and out of the high mountain peaks.” $4.99

The Poem of Hashish (1910) – translated from the French by Aleister Crowley. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), author of the 1857 collection of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal, participated in the infamous “Club des Hachichins” along with such literary figures as Théophile Gautier, Alexandre Dumas and Honoré de Balzac in the 1840s. In this essay he recounts his observations of the effects of the herb, along with his evaluation of its spiritual and moral dangers. $9.99

On the Haschisch or Cannabis Indica (1857) – “Any one who, under the influence of Cannabis indica, has seen what the human mind is capable of becoming... cannot but look with hope to it, as a means of more fully comprehending what is the most distressing of finite calamities, and he cannot but think that a substance, the action of which is so powerful and unique, will be found, when fully understood, to possess valuable therapeutic virtues.” $4.99

Life Eternal and its Work, Revealed from the Heavenly Side (1938) – a consciousness-expanding masterpiece of mystical revelation. “In this book which is for reading and study are the Foundational Religious Teachings of Life Eternal, by which We keep open the door to the Heavenly Mansion, showing what We really are as Sons in this Mansion, and that We as Sons are identical in Life, even with the Life of Christ Jesus.” $9.99

Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals (1968) – The word “phanerothyme” was proposed in the 1950s as a term to describe the class of mind-expanding drugs that later became popularly known as psychedelics. The author, founder of the Psychedelic Information Center of Cambridge MA and protégé of Timothy Leary at Millbrook, criticizes the psychedelic pop culture of the 1960s and counsels a return to our spiritual roots. $4.99

Session Games People Play: A Manual for the Use of LSD (1967) – a manual designed to aid first-time LSD users, outlining common problems that may arise and strategies to avoid them. “In addition to providing a suitable setting for the session, and approaching it in a tranquil state of mind, you should know how to avoid certain pitfalls.... Almost everyone sooner or later slips into one of these traps, but if you have been told about them in advance you can get out quicker.” $4.99

The Abolition of Work (1985) – “Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue, I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists – except that I’m not kidding – I favor full unemployment. Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I agitate for permanent revelry.” $4.99

A Psychical Invasion (1908) – featuring Dr. John Silence, occult investigator. An experiment with hashish leads to a case of spiritual obsession, robbing a comedian of his sense of humor. “Certain portions of your atmosphere are vibrating at a far greater rate than others. This is the effect of a drug, but of no ordinary drug. If the higher rate of vibration spreads all over, you will become, of course, permanently cognizant of a much larger world than the one you know normally.” $9.99

Secret Worship (1908) – a gothic tale of occult mystery featuring occult investigator Dr. John Silence. An unsuspecting traveler is trapped in a haunted ruin and falls prey to the twisted plot of evil ghostly sorcerers. “The cries of the strangled; the short, running gasp of the suffocated; and the smothered gurgling of the tightened throat, all these, and more, echoed back and forth between the walls, the very walls in which he now stood a prisoner, a sacrificial victim.” $4.99

A Victim of Higher Space (1917) – Does an unseen world exist at right angles to the cubic space that we inhabit? In this fantasy tale of multiple dimensions and mystical powers, a man is plagued by the uncontrolled psychic ability to perceive and interact with the higher dimensions of space – to the extent that he fears he is losing his grip on third dimensional reality. In desperation he seeks aid from renowned occult investigator Dr. John Silence. $4.99

The Ensouled Violin (1892) – a Gothic fantasy by the founder of the Theosophical Society. “Franz Stenio’s person was now entirely enveloped in a semi-transparent mist, cloudlike, creeping with serpentine motion, and gradually tightening round the living form... in this tall and ominous pillar of smoke a clearly-defined figure, a form showing the unmistakable outlines of a grotesque and grinning old man, whose viscera were protruding and the ends of the intestines stretched on the violin.” $9.99

Evidence of the Hashish Vice in the Old Testament (1903) – Was cannabis used for its consciousness altering effects in ancient Biblical times? “It is known that the fibre of the hemp-plant, Cannabis sativa, was used for cordage in ancient times; and it is therefore probable that the resinous exudation, ‘honey’ or ‘dew,’ which is found upon its flowering tops on some soils, or in certain climates, was known for its stimulant or intoxicant properties from an equally early date.”  $4.99

Absinthe: The Green Goddess (1918) – An essay composed in the legendary Old Absinthe House in New Orleans, first published in The International, a New York monthly. In this essay Crowley extols the inspirational virtues of this mildly hallucinogenic green liqueur, and speaks out against the rising tide of prohibitionism that was sweeping the country as the first U.S. “war on drugs” began with the passage of the Harrison Act. $4.99

Across the Gulf (1912) – an autobiographical fantasy of a former lifetime in ancient Egypt. “...uniting my consciousness with the god’s, I obtained the expansion of that consciousness... I perceived the universe as it were a single point of infinite nothingness, yet of infinite extension; and becoming this universe, I became dissolved utterly therein. Moreover, my body lifted itself up and rose in the air to a great height beyond the shadow of the Earth, and the Earth rolled beneath me.”  $9.99

Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1913) – “An account of the continent of Atlantis: the manners and customs, magical rites and opinions of its people, together with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappearance.” Crowley writes, “At times it is a fantastic rhapsody describing my ideals of Utopian society; but some passages are a satire on the conditions of our existing civilization, while others convey hints of certain profound magical secrets....” $9.99

The Book of the Law (1904) – a channeled message from a trinity of ancient Egyptian deities to the people of Earth, announcing the dawning of a new spiritual aeon and proclaiming a new law for all mankind: Do what thou wilt. The text was reportedly delivered to Crowley by the audible voice of an unseen presence following his performance of an invocation of the Egyptian sun-god Horus in the king’s chamber of the great pyramid of Giza.  $9.99

Cocaine (1917) – an essay first published in The International. Based on his own experience, Crowley describes the allure of cocaine as a source of “happiness” and the way that happiness can turn to horror as addiction manifests. He eloquently expresses his libertarian views on the use of drugs in which individual liberty and personal responsibility replace governmental protectionism as desirable social values. $4.99

Golden Twigs: The Hearth (1917) – “The oak was the sacred tree of the tribe, their badge, their totem and their god. The sky was but the roof of the oak, and the thunder but its voice monitor or oracular. More, to these people the King was actually the oak, and the god of the oak; and the life of the King was the life of the people. It was the office of the King to sustain the works of Nature, and in particular he must provide men with fire.”  $4.99

Golden Twigs: The Burning of Melcarth (1917) – “In a few moments the head of the procession appeared. It was formed by priests, all wearing the masks of various wild beasts and bearing flaming torches. As he turned to look, the street suddenly cleared... he realized that the procession was no longer chanting, but roaring and howling in imitation of the wild beasts whose masks they wore – and they were charging him!” $4.99

Golden Twigs: The God of Ibreez (1918) – “She was dressed in a single piece of the finest scarlet tissue, wound round and round so closely and so cunningly that it perfectly revealed and perfectly concealed her nubile loveliness. The King had himself discovered her during the sack of the city... He had instantly realized the value of his find, for she was as different from the women of his tribe as a prize Pekinese from a mongrel sheep dog.” $4.99

Golden Twigs: The Old Man of the Peepul-Tree (1918) – “I’m not only a sacred kind of tree, you know; I come of a very special family. My own grandfather is the famous Bo-Tree at Anuradhapura, with a big platform round him and gifts and pilgrims every day from every airt of the four winds; and his father, as you know, was the great tree of Buddha-Gaya, under which the Buddha sat when he attained emancipation.” $4.99

Golden Twigs: The King of the Wood (1918) – “Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs. Success in the attempt entitled him to fight the priest in single combat, and if he slew him he reigned in his stead with the title of King of the Wood.” This passage from Frazier’s Golden Bough sets the stage for Crowley’s tale. $4.99

Golden Twigs: The Mass of Saint Secaire (1918) – “They came to the well. The priest took the black bag. ‘In the name of the devil,’ he cried aloud, ‘sin to sin, shame to shame, fire to fire, child of Satan, I give thee to thy father!’ With that he flung the bag into the well. Then the apostate priest and the wretched victim of his abominable desire embraced with all the ecstasy of long-pent passion.”  $4.99

The Great Drug Delusion and The Drug Panic (1922) – two essays on the psychology of drug addiction, first published in The English Review (London) under two different pseudonyms. Crowley suggests that the phenomenon of addiction results in part from the salacious coverage of drugs in the popular press, which plants “pernicious suggestions” in the minds of the populace about the inability of the human will to overcome their lure. $4.99

The Heart Girt with a Serpent (1919) – one of Crowley’s most powerful works of inspired prose-poetry, filled with visionary images and multilayered references to yoga, Qabalah and magick. This epic describes the stage of spiritual initiation in which the aspirant attains the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. This is one of the “Class A” texts, the “Holy Books” of the Thelemic canon. $9.99

The Psychology of Hashish (1909) – this essay recounts the author’s search for a drug that would “loosen the girders of the soul” and quicken the attainment of results in the practice of yoga and meditation. Following his regimen of “the means of science and the aims of religion,” Crowley uses the analytical system of Buddhist psychology to describe the value of Cannabis as a “microscope of the soul” — an instrument useful to the serious student of mysticism and Magick. $9.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #1: Big Game (1917) – the first of Crowley’s occult detective stories featuring his quasi-autobiographical magician-sleuth, Simon Iff. On a wager, two hunters set out to bag the biggest game of all: man. “The motiveless murderer has the true spirit of sport; to kill a man is more dangerous that to follow a wounded gaur into the jungle.” The series appeared first in The International, a New York monthly. $4.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #2: The Artistic Temperament (1917) – “As you have heard me say about a million times, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Failure to observe this precept is the root of all human error. It is our right and duty – the two are one, as Eliphaz Lévi very nearly saw – to expand upon our own true center, to pursue the exact orbit of our destiny. To quit that orbit is to invite collisions.” $4.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #3: Outside the Bank’s Routine (1917) – “The man I mean to hang is Dr. Leslie. He is one of a common type, the ambitious money-loving Scotsman, clever and handsome, who comes to London to make his way. They become women’s doctors; they seduce their patients; they make them drug-fiends; they perform abortions; and to the extortionate charges for their crimes they add a tenfold profit by blackmail. These men are the curse of London.” $4.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #4: The Conduct of John Briggs (1917) – “If we get full of alcohol – any of us – too often and too steadily and too long – we begin to see rats and serpents and such things. We don’t see horses and elephants. That is, our minds are machines which run in grooves, narrow grooves, mostly. We can’t think what we like, and how we like; we have to think as we have been taught to think, or as our whole race has been taught to think by aeons of experience.” $4.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #5: Not Good Enough (1918) – “The main argument of the book is that the Buddha was a hedonist, that he called pleasure the greatest good... that the Buddha declared everything to partake of the nature of sorrow... and that his whole system is therefore devoted to the escape from this Everything. But pleasure has nothing to do with this.... desire in any form is the very cause of all sorrow and evil in the Buddhist system.” $4.99

The Scrutinies of Simon Iff #6: Ineligible (1918) – “Major Glass had become terribly obese. He was a frightful object to look upon; a vast dome of belly, a shrunk chest, a bloated and agonized face. Four stumps only accentuated the repulsion... By this time she had thrown off the mask of her hypocrisy; she taunted him openly, and jeered; she spat out rivers of hate at him... she was glad that he might live half a century; for never until now had she known pleasure.” $4.99

Simon Iff in America #1: What’s In a Name? – “The door opened, and a slight girl came in. Her father was repeated in her. His tallness, his leanness, his narrow brow, his thin lips, his pale complexion, his solemnity, his nervous tension; all these were already marked in the child of fifteen years old. But what most struck the old mystic was the extreme misery in her eyes.... And Iff saw too that she moved as if under some most powerful constraint.”  $4.99

Simon Iff in America #2: A Sense of Incongruity – “...her hands dropped suddenly to her lap; she turned a curious questioning gaze upon her employer. She gave a cough, then, with a sudden spasm, torrents of blood gushed from her lungs. She rose, then collapsed upon the floor. The fat man telephoned excitedly for a doctor. As he did so he consulted his watch once more, and put it back in his pocket with a satisfied snap.” $4.99

The Stratagem (1914) – “Among the convicts there was one universal pleasure, a pleasure that could cease only with life or with the empire of the reason, a pleasure that the governor might (and did) indeed restrict, but could not take away. I refer to hope – the hope of escape. Yes, sir, that spark (alone of all its ancient fires) burnt in this breast – and in that of my fellow-convicts.” A story first published in The English Review, Volume 13, Number 6.  $4.99

Anarchism and American Traditions (1909) –  “...when Modern Revolution has thus been carried to the heart of the whole world – if it ever shall be, as I hope it will – then may we hope to see a resurrection of that proud spirit of our fathers which put the simple dignity of Man above the gauds of wealth and class, and held that to be an American was greater than to be a king. In that day there shall be neither kings nor Americans – only Men; over the whole earth, Men.” $4.99

Direct Action (1912) – “I quite agree that the sources of life, and all the natural wealth of the earth, and the tools necessary to co-operative production, must become freely accessible to all. It is a positive certainty to me that unionism must widen and deepen its purposes, or it will go under... they can win nothing permanent unless they strike for everything – not for a wage, not for a minor improvement, but for the whole natural wealth of the earth.” $4.99

The Hashish Man (1910) – by the author of The King of Elfland’s Daughter and other fantasy classics. Lord Dunsany’s Dreamer’s Tales are Lovecraftian journeys through fabled lost cities shrouded in impenetrable desert wastes. In “The Hashish Man” the technique of out-of-body travel triggered by the eating of hashish is vividly depicted. This edition also contains the stories “Bethmoora” and “The Madness of Andelsprutz.” $4.99

Change the World by the Lever Effect (2003) – a channeled document purportedly originating from a race of extraterrestrial beings with an important message for humanity. They are ready to make themselves known and come to our aid in these times of our greatest need on Planet Earth – but only if a majority of Earth citizens welcome them. Their challenge to us: “Change the world! Decide whether or not we should show up!”  $4.99

Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise (1898) – “The reason why mescal is of all this class of drugs the most purely intellectual in its appeal is evidently because it affects mainly the most intellectual of the senses... unlike most other intoxicants, it seems to have no special affinity for a disordered and unbalanced nervous system; on the contrary, it demands organic soundness and good health for the complete manifestation of its virtues.”  $4.99

Anarchism: What it Really Stands For (1911) –“...the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary....  voluntary productive and distributive associations, gradually developing into free communism, as the best means of producing with the least waste of human energy.”  $4.99

Marriage and Love (1910) with Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure (1915) – “...some day men and women will rise, they will reach the mountain peak, they will meet big and strong and free, ready to receive, to partake, and to bask in the golden rays of love. What fancy, what imagination, what poetic genius can foresee even approximately the potentialities of such a force in the life of men and women.”  $4.99

Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty (1910) – “Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average workingman.” $4.99

Prisons: A Social Crime and a Failure (1910) – “With all our boasted reforms, our great social changes, and our far-reaching discoveries, human beings continue to be sent to the worst of hells, wherein they are outraged, degraded, and tortured, that society may be ‘protected’ from the phantoms of its own making. Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion.”  $4.99

OTO and CIA: An Investigation – The results of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation into links between Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following allegations made by Craig Heimbichner in the book Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World’s Most Dangerous Secret Society (Independent History and Research publishers, 2005). $9.99

Acid and the Avatar (1979) – “In the year the atomic bomb was first exploded, an energy of comparable power was released into the world, capable of exploding the limits of human consciousness. It seemed that Alice Bailey’s Great Invocation had been answered, and that the Avatar had returned to Earth this time not as a man, but as a molecule.... By the early 1960s people were turning on all over the world. A spiritual and cultural renaissance was underway.”  $4.99

Bloom or Doom: The Green Energy of Hemp (1991) – “Every part of the hemp plant – root, stalk, leaf, flower, seed, pollen, resin – has been used by humans since the dawn of history for industrial, medicinal, religious, and culinary purposes. A partial list of products that have been made from hemp would include food, shelter, clothing, medicines, fuel oils, alcohol fuels, paper, plastics, rope, rugs, and canvas (the word canvas derives from cannabis, the botanical name for hemp).” $4.99

Confessions of an Amerikan LSD Eater (1991) – “Psychedelics tend to awaken the mind from the hypnotic somnambulism of Amerikan consumer culture. Psychedelics are anti-brainwashing agents, stimulating users to question the assumptions of the establishment and to break through the indoctrination and conditioning that the State uses to turn us into obedient robots. Psychedelics can widen the horizons of the mind, awakening the creative imagination.” $4.99

The Man Who Never Came Down – four short stories written between 1976 and 1982. Imagine a psychedelic drug that takes you on a one-way trip that never ends (The Man Who Never Came Down)... explore the dream dimension between death and rebirth (Phantasmagloria)... visit a beautiful woodland glade one last time as it is gobbled up by a mechanical monster (Goodbye to Rams Gulch)... watch as your soul-mate slips away from you, never to return (A Shooting Star). $9.99

The Luminist Manifesto (1996) – “The consciousness of transcendent unity is repressed in the average member our modern society. This oceanic communion seeps subtly into our awareness through our dreams, myths, and emotions. It is the source of aesthetic inspiration, creative imagination, passion, and the sense of humor. It is the mysterious magnetic energy that, at a touch, transforms our dim, somnolent lives into vibrant clarity, splendor, and ecstasy.”  $9.99

Post-Apocalyptic Paganism (1994) – “...the prescient among us can discern the emergence of a new paradigm that could provide us with safe passage through the crises that lie ahead, into a new world of peace, health, and unity for all sentient beings. The seeds of this new vision were sown by the Rainbow Warriors of the 1960s, and the emerging paradigm reflects the worldview that predominated among pre-industrial peoples.” $4.99

The Principles of Revolutionary Luminism (1994) – “Revolutionary Luminism seeks to enable the self-actualization of every member of the human race, and seeks to implement a worldwide society that will insure full liberty, autonomy, and security for every woman and man on Planet Earth – not a “world government”; rather a worldwide voluntary, cooperative, do-it-your self free-market anarcho-communism.” $4.99

Word Music – a selection of 22 poems. Themes include mystical spirituality, reincarnation, apocalyptic visions, and erotic love. Parental advisory: Some content may be deemed inappropriate for children. The author is a free-lance writer, a banjo-playing singer-songwriter, an ex-convict and veteran of the “war on drugs,” a self-employed entrepreneur, an anarchist, a communist, a dreamer (but not the only one), and the founder of the Church of Gnostic Luminism. $9.99

Anola and Other Poems – a selection of 21 poems composed in the 1920s and 1930s. This is its first publication. Richard Drury Gowin (1913–1986) served in the U.S. Navy in World War II as a radar technician on an “attack-cargo” ship. After the war he and his young wife homesteaded in the Alaska wilderness near the Lower Tonsina River where they subsisted by hunting for moose and caribou and fishing for salmon in the glacier-fed river. He succumbed to cancer at the age of 73. $9.99

Peyote (1959) – Jack Green was a “beatnik” who lived in New York City’s Lower East Side in the 1950s. He published a prototype underground newspaper, entitled newspaper, from a storefront at 225 East 5th Street. This essay describing his experiences with peyote, written long before there were any “laws” against its possession and sale, originally appeared in newspaper #8. $4.99

The Physiological Activity of Cannabis Sativa (1913) – “The common hemp (Cannabis sativa) grown in the United States contains the same active constituent as is found in Cannabis indica, the name of the official drug which is grown in India. Botanists do not distinguish between the two, the plant being identical wherever grown... No recorded data have been advanced to substantiate the claim that drug grown elsewhere does not contain such constituents.” $4.99

The Pipe of Mystery (1897) – “I put the pipe to my lips. I felt at once that it was opium, of which I had before made experiment, but mixed with some other substance, which was, I imagine, haschish, a preparation of hemp. A few puffs, and I felt a drowsiness creeping over me. I saw, as through a mist, the fakir swaying himself backwards and forwards, his arms waving, and his face distorted. Another minute, and the pipe slipped from my fingers, and I fell back insensible.” $4.99

Indian Hemp (1855) and Cannabis Indica Poisoning (J. C. O’Day, 1899) – “It is really happiness which is produced by the haschisch; and by this I mean an enjoyment entirely moral, and by no means sensual…  not like the gourmand, or the famishing man when satisfying his appetite... but like him who hears tidings which fill him with joy, or like the miser counting his treasures, the gambler who is successful at play, or the ambitious man who is intoxicated with success.” $4.99

Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916) – “Harken: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full. As well might ye say anything else of nothingness, as for instance, white is it, or black, or again, it is not, or it is. A thing that is infinite and eternal hath no qualities, since it hath all qualities. This nothingness or fullness we name the Pleroma.” $9.99

A Hashish House in New York (1883) – a visit to a legal cannabis club, from Harper’s magazine. “There is a large community of hashish smokers in this city, who are daily forced to indulge their morbid appetites, and I can take you to a house uptown where hemp is used in every conceivable form, and where the lights, sounds, odors, and surroundings are all arranged so as to intensify and enhance the effects of this wonderful narcotic.” $4.99

Anarchism (1910) – “If society were organized on Anarchist principles, man would not be limited in the free exercise of his powers in productive work by a capitalist monopoly, maintained by the state; nor would he be limited in the exercise of his will by a fear of punishment, or by obedience towards individuals or metaphysical entities, which both lead to depression of initiative and servility of mind.” $4.99

Anarchist Morality (1927) – “We forego sanctions of all kinds, even obligations to morality. We are not afraid to say, ‘Do what you will”; because we are persuaded that the great majority of mankind will behave and act always in a direction useful to society, just as we are persuaded beforehand that a child will one day walk on its two feet and not on all fours simply because it is born of parents belonging to the genus Homo.” $4.99

Communism and Anarchy (1901) – “Communism guarantees economic freedom better than any other form of association, because it can guarantee well-being, even luxury, in return for a few hours of work instead of a day’s work. Now, to give ten or eleven hours of leisure per day out of the sixteen during which we lead a conscious life, means to enlarge individual liberty to a point which for thousands of years has been one of the ideals of humanity.” $4.99

The Banned Speech (1967) and The P.O.W. Communiqué (1970) – “The fact is that our government in Washington is a supremely materialistic and atheistic society seeking, as every empire has in the past, control, power, control. Aging, almost senile, and probably impotent men in our capitals both east and west are sending young men out to kill for old men’s chess games: power and control. It’s time for a new religion.” $4.99

Chemical Warfare: The Alcoholics vs. the Psychedelics (1968) – “Two new ethical commandments are necessary as man moves into the molecular age. The new commandments are neurological and biochemical in essence, and are therefore, I suspect, in closer harmony with the laws of cellular wisdom, the law of the DNA code. I: Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow man. II: Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his own consciousness.” $4.99

Drop Out or Cop Out (1968) – “The underground is always aware of the existence and reflex responses of the overground. Survival in the underground depends on your ability to anticipate the movements of external power. It’s always been a capital crime to laugh, make love, and turn on barefoot in front of whitey’s house, and these are the endemic, chronic crimes of the giggling young, the colored, the artists and the visionaries.” $4.99

The Seven Tongues of God (1964) – “At the atomic level I am a galaxy of nuclear-powered atoms spinning through changing patterns. I am the universe, the center and guardian temple of all energy. I am God of Light. Who am I? I’m you. At the cellular level I am the entire chain of life. I am the key rung of the DNA ladder, center of the evolutionary process, the current guardian of the seed, the now-eye of the two-billion-year-old uncoiling serpent. I am God of Life. I’m you.” $4.99

Start Your Own Religion (1966) – “Any action that is not a conscious expression of the drop-out-turn-on-tune-in-drop-out rhythm is the dead posturing of robot actors on the fake-prop TV studio stage set that is called American reality. Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious. The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search – for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.” $4.99

The Apocalypse of Hasheesh (1856) and The Hasheesh Eater (anonymous, 1856) – “In returning from the world of hasheesh, I bring with me many and diverse memories. The echoes of a sublime rapture which thrilled and vibrated on the very edge of pain; of Promethean agonies which wrapt the soul like a mantle of fire; of voluptuous delirium which suffused the body with a blush of exquisite languor – all are mine” $4.99

The Phial of Dread (1859) – “You might tell me till my dying day that it was rats beneath the floor; but it was not. With my last breath I would swear not. I heard a rattling in the closet – a dull, heavy clink, as of that phial with its contents shaken up and down, trying to escape from the pit in the floor! And then there came up through the planks a low, prolonged, bitter wail, as of a woman in soul-pain. Rats! Do rats cry like dying women?” $4.99

Psychedelic Yoga (1968) – “...any thought and emotion patterns created during a psychedelic session are strongly imprinted and have a great deal of energy incorporated into their vibration structure. These thought and emotional patterns then act as powerful unconscious conditioning factors in our daily lives. It is therefore of the utmost importance that constructive imprints are made during a psychedelic session. Remaining in control of the attention can ensure this.” $4.99

Mother of Pearl (1860) – “Oh, Hasheesh! Demon of a new Paradise, spiritual whirlwind, I know you now. You blackened my life, you robbed me of all I held dear; but you have since consoled me. You thought that you had destroyed my peace forever. But I have won, through you yourself, the bliss you once blotted out... Hand in hand, I walk with the conquer or of time, and space, and suffering. Bend all who hear me to his worship!”  $4.99

On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp or Gunjah (1840) – “A little tobacco is placed in the pipe first, then a layer of the prepared gunjah, then more tobacco, and the fire above all... The hookah is passed round, and each person takes a single draught. Intoxication ensues almost instantly – and from one draught to the unaccustomed – within half an hour, and after four or five inspirations to those more practised in the vice.” $4.99

The Clairvoyants (1913) – “Once a puff of light smoke appeared, and Constance awoke to the fact that some were smoking little delicately gold-banded cigarettes. Mrs. Caswell took one from a maid.... He lighted it gingerly, took a puff or two, puckered his face, frowned, and rubbed the lighted end on the fireplace to extinguish it. ‘What is it?’ he asked suspiciously. ‘Hashish,’ she answered tersely.” $4.99

The Black Pool (1943) – a pulp-era science fiction adventure story that first appeared in Amazing Stories magazine, Vol. 17, No. 10, November 1943. The hallucinogenic powers of the peyote cactus are captured by a mad scientist and used as a mind control weapon in a bid to gain control of a meteorite rich in radioactive ores. Peyote is synthesized in a gaseous form that induces madness when inhaled. $4.99

I Contacted an Unknown Race (1955) – “This ancient race is not native to Earth. It comes from Space, and it is ancient beyond belief, in the sense that it is hundreds of millions of years old, and Earth is but a baby in comparison, the race actually predating the formation of the planet itself. One of the things done by the ancient race is the “seeding down” of new planets to humanity... Man did not evolve on this planet, but was placed here, just as he has been placed on many other planets.” $4.99

The Rescue of Atlantis and Lemuria by the Flying Saucers (1956) – “Earth is inhabited by far more people than we realize. It is inhabited within as well as without. It is honeycombed with caverns to a great depth, from four miles down to many miles down, perhaps as many as twenty. These tiers on tiers of artificial caverns actually present a living area much greater that the surface land area of Earth. At one time, as many as fifty billion people occupied these caves.” $4.99

University Round Table on the Shaver Mystery, edited by Raymond A. Palmer (1957) – a transcript of a discussion among a team of scholars from a Midwestern university. Due to the controversial subject matter, the participants requested that their names be withheld. They are, however, all competent in their respective fields, and represent the sciences of psychology, medicine, biology,  physics, literature, and ancient history. $4.99

The Wheel (2007) – “I heard running feet, and a woman’s scream. Jumping to my feet, I looked around. A man lay sprawled on the asphalt, his shirt a bloody mess. A sobbing woman was crouching there so I couldn’t see the face, but damn, that was my sister Nancy. What did she think she was doing? The man on the asphalt was wearing clothes like I had worn today. I moved to see the face. Damn if the bastard wasn’t a dead ringer for me!”  $4.99

Marijuana Revolution (1971) – “Marijuana took rock and roll into the future, and rock and roll took marijuana to the masses so they could climb into the future too, and nobody’s been the same since. The weed shaped the music and the music shaped the people who came in contact with it, and the people have gone forth to reshape the world in the image of the freedom they know and love.” $4.99

Omnica: A Psychedelic Manifesto (2007) – “In one moment I grasped eternity, and I realized that the divine is everything, and that the cosmos itself is alive and eternal. I realized that the spiritual energy that animates all living beings is the substance of the divine, that everything else is just illusion manifested by the mind, and that the spirit is the only thing that is real. I realized that I was a member of a divine pantheon of souls existing perpetually within the matrix of the cosmos.” $9.99

The Vision of Hashish (1854) and Orgies of the Hemp Eaters (Anonymous, 1895) – “The sense of limitation – of the confinement of our senses within the bounds of our own flesh and blood – instantly fell away. The walls of my frame were burst outward and tumbled into ruin; and, without thinking what form I wore – losing sight even of all idea of form – I felt that I existed throughout a vast extent of space... It was like a revelation of the mystery of omnipresence.” $4.99

Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism (1916) – “Masonry is described elsewhere as ‘a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.’ I want to tell you, among other things which call for consideration, something about the nature of the building, as this is presented to my mind, and about the way in which allegory, symbols and drama all hang together and make for one meaning.” $4.99