The actual reading list: papers and books worth your time
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There's a lot of psilocybin content out there and quality varies enormously. I want to put together a list of what's actually worth reading — primary literature, good popular science, integrative frameworks, and the classic texts.
Primary literature must-reads: Griffiths et al. (2006) — the original psilocybin mystical experience paper. Carhart-Harris et al. (2016) — the first neuroimaging study. Davis et al. (2021) — psilocybin for major depression.
For the mechanistic depth: the REBUS hypothesis paper (Carhart-Harris and Friston, 2019). It's genuinely complex but worth the effort.
Books I keep recommending: Michael Pollan's 'How to Change Your Mind' for orientation; 'The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide' by Fadiman for practical depth; Stanislaw Grof's 'Realms of the Human Unconscious' for the clinical phenomenology.
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