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Complete Set of David McDiarmid’s ACON AIDS Awareness Safe Sex / Injecting Posters
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid McDiarmid
: ACON (AIDS Council of New South Wales), 1992.A complete set of the original AIDS Council of New South Wales safe sex and safe injecting posters featuring artwork commissioned from David McDiarmid (1952-1995). “For people of a certain disposition and a certain age, David McDiarmid’s ACON posters were part of our exploration of sexuality and identity amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1990s. The large multicoloured muscular naked male bodies with symbols, acronyms and names scrawled across each limb: positives and negatives of grief/lust/fear/care provided a new language for a community to own its public health concerns, and a troubling and appealing depiction of much of our felt ambivalence surrounding sexuality. They, along with his massive and elaborate Mardi Gras floats, were the backdrops to the AIDS vigils of the 1990s; an intense time of shuddering grief and defiant sexual pride.” (Margaret Mayhew, Artllink Issue 34:3) Full list of posters: 1. Some of us get out of it, some of us don’t. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!; 2. HIV, discrimination and grief threaten our community, Build our strength, stay together and support each other; 3. Some of us have HIV, some of us don’t. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!; 4. Some of us inject, some of us don’t. Always use clean needles – every time!; 5. Some of us are in love, some of us are in lust. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!
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Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex K. Gearin
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.“Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Perou Solidaire: Chamanique, Cosmique, Symbolique
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Devigne
Nice: Imprimerie Crouzet, 2012.A revised and expanded version of Prodigioso Peru Profundo. A study of pre-Columbian Peruvian religion, art, cosmology, shamanism, and antiquities.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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Mystery School In Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham St John
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Dennis McKenna.
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Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJim DeKorne
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2011.First printing of the revised edition.
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Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDiana Reed Slattery
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Allyson Grey.
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The Simple Plant Isoquinolines
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Wendy E. Perry
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2002.A complete reference book for simple isoquinolines, detailing their common names, molecular structures, and the plants that contain them.
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Cigars & The Man
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Graves
London: Martins, No date.Who are the men who smoke cigars? Successful men according to this promotional piece by Martins Cigar Shippers of Picadilly. More than mere promotional puff, Graves provides tips to the new smoker, and outlines histories and traditions of the practice. A lengthy Q&A section is followed by a colour supplementary of Martins cigars according to Graves’ seven classifications. Order form with envelope laid in, together with an autographed typescript letter dated 2nd December, 1938 from the firm’s sales manager on Martins letterhead.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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Plants and People of the Golden Triangle: Ethnobotany of the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward F. Anderson
Portland: Dioscorides Press, 1993. -
Illustrated Genera of Ascomycetes
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard T. Hanlin
St. Paul: The American Phytopathological Society, 1990.A reference tool which allows easy identification of one of the largest groups of fungi to cause diseases of plants. Illustrated by Carol Gubbins Hahn. The first edition, in one volume.
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Ergot Alkaloids: History, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Uses
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2023.First English translation of Die Mutterkornalkaloide documenting Hofmann’s research on ergot that led to the discovery of LSD. “a detailed account of chemical compounds and pharmacological investigation into the potential of magical plants. Starting with the botany and cultivation of the ergot mushroom, Hofmann takes us through the historical elaboration of the fungus including the poisoning epidemic of ergot and its early medical uses all the way to the use of psilocybin as a “magical drug”. With a detailed timeline, we explore the growth of the pharmaceutical-chemical investigation from 1816 to 1961 with a total synthesis of ergotamine including tables of chemical structures and the role of lysergic acid, d-lysergic acid and diethylamide in experimental psychiatry gaining increasing importance in psychotherapy as a medical aid. Hofmann brings an observational account of these plants and their ceremonial and healing purposes still used by indigenous peoples such as the “Peyotl” cactus, “Teonanactl” the sacred mushroom of the Aztecs and “Ololiuqui” the seeds of bindweed plants.” (publisher’s blurb)
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A Citizen’s Guide to Marihuana in Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Crowley; Lorna Cartwright
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981.A balanced look at marijuana in midst of the prohibition years in Australia. Also discusses broader drug use in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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LSD, Man & Society
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Die Wirkstoffe der dritten aztekischen Zauberdroge oder Die Losung des Ololiuqui-Ratsels
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann; A. Cerletti
Stuttgart: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1961.Reissue from Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr. 18, pp. 885-888. Paper by the Swiss chemist and psychedelic icon who first synthesised and ingested LSD and his colleague at Sandoz Aurelio Cerletti on the “third aztec magical drug”, Ololiuqui (Ipomoea corymbosa), a species of morning glory.
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The Mycophagists’ Book
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Healy Evans
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951.A treatise on the cooking and eating of mushrooms. A fine American private press production limited to 175 copies. This copy inscribed by the author and the printer. VOLBRACHT 567.
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The Shulgin Index Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Tania Manning; Paul F. Daley
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2011.The first and only volume (to date) of The Shulgin Index: a comprehensive survey of all known psychedelic phenethylamines and related compounds. Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014) is considered one of the greatest figures of the psychedelic movement and is known for introducing MDMA to American psychologists and first synthesising many of the psychedelic phenethylamines.
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of South East Queensland, Australia: Eliminating the Harms
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. K. Nixon
[Eumundi]: T. K. Nixon, 2023.“What are the main harms associated with foraging for and eating psilocybin mushrooms – the mushrooms themselves, poisonous look-a-likes, or the laws surrounding their use and possession? T. K. Nixon guides us through thousands of years of history, fifty years of prohibition and a modern, scientific, mushroom renaissance in this one-of-a-kind work. With over forty full-colour photos, and identification and environmental information, this book contains all you need to avoid the harms associated with psilocybin mushrooms.” (rear cover)