Books which have Made See that I'm Not (that) Crazy!

I've read 80% of these. The best ones are by Chardin, Ball, Calleman, Campbell, Oroc, Narby, Russell, Dick, Wilber and of course, McKenna.

I've recently read "The Holy Mushroom" by Jan Irvin, which was a scholarly look at mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, as well as "Magic, Mysticism and the Molecule," which described various methods of contacting entities, including the psychomanteum. Similarly, good practical explorations into consciousness are documented in the two books on Floatation/Isolation Tanks by John C. Lilly and Michael Hutchinson. On an unlikely foray into fiction, I picked up Philip K. Dick's "A Maze of Death" and found a riveting and insightful experiment in reality as virtual reality, with similar ideas as in the movies "The Matrix" or "Dark City."

Another intriguing but no less experimental read is Carl Jung's "The Red Book." It was only published in the Fall of 2009 and promises to be an incredible peek into his world. Here's what he said of it:

The years… when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.

You could say that the books below represent a similar search for the "outer classification" and "scientific elaboration" that results when the unconscious bursts forth and sends a comfortable mind into chaos. These authors have attempted to express the inexpressible and have put forth some truly astounding insights into the nature of mind, matter, and identity.

Adyashanti. Emptiness dancing. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.
Ball, Martin W. Being human: an entheological guide to God, evolution and the fractal energetic nature of reality. [S.l.]: Kyandara Pub., 2009.
Ball, Martin W. Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness. Berkeley, Calif.: Ronin Pub., 2006.
Ball, Martin W. The Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelics, Consciousness and Awakening the Human Spirit. Gardners Books, 2008.
Biocentrism How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe. Benbella Books, 2010.
Bloom, Howard K. The global brain: the evolution of mass mind from the big bang to the 21st century. New York: Wiley, 2000.
Bohm, David. Wholeness and the implicate order. London: Routledge, 2002.
Braden, Gregg S. Awakening to zero point: the collective initiation. Questa, N.M.: Sacred Spaces / Ancient Wisdom, 1994.
Braden, Gregg. The Isaiah effect: decoding the lost science of prayer and prophecy. New York: Harmony Books, 2000.
Braden, Gregg. The Mystery of 2012: predictions, prophecies, and possibilities. Boulder, Colo.: Sounds True, 2007.
Bruce, Robert. Astral dynamics: the complete book of out-of-body experiences. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., 2009.
Calleman, Carl Johan. The Mayan calendar and the transformation of consciousness. Rochester, Vt.: Bear, 2004.
Calleman, Carl Johan. The purposeful universe: how quantum theory and Mayan cosmology explain the origin and evolution of life. Rochester, VT: Bear, 2009.
Campbell, Joseph, and David Kudler. Pathways to bliss: mythology and personal transformation. Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 2004.
Campbell, Joseph. The hero with a thousand faces. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1973.
Campbell, Thomas. My big TOE: awakening, discovery, inner workings : a trilogy unifying philosophy, physics, and metaphysics. [United States]: Lightning Strike Books, 2007.
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of physics: an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism. Boulder: Shambhala, 1983.
Carroll, Lewis, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner, and Lewis Carroll. The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass. New York: Norton, 2000.
Carroll, Peter J. Apophenion: a chaos magic paradigm. Oxford: Mandrake and Peter J. Carroll, 2008.
Chopra, Deepak. The seven spiritual laws of success: a practical guide to the fulfillment of your dreams. San Rafael, Calif.: Amber-Allen, 1994.
Clow, Barbara Hand, and Gerry Clow. Alchemy of nine dimensions: the 2011/2012 prophecies and nine dimensions of consciousness. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., 2010.
Davies, Stevan L. Gospel of Thomas annotated & explained. Woodstock, Vt.: SkyLight Paths, 2002.
Devereux, Paul. The long trip: a prehistory of psychedelia. Brisbane, Australia: Daily Grail Pub., 2008.
Dick, Philip K. A maze of death. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Dunn, Patrick. Postmodern magic: the art of magic in the information age. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 2005.
Edinger, Edward F. Ego and archetype; individuation and the religious function of the psyche,. New York: Published by Putnam for the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, 1972.
Fries, Jan. Visual magick: a practical guide to trance, sigils and visualization techniques. Oxford: Mandrake, 2000.
Ghose, Aurobindo. The life divine. Pondicherry [India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2006.
Goswami, Amit, Richard E. Reed, and Maggie Goswami. The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1993.
Hainich, Rolf R. The end of hardware: augmented reality and beyond. [S.l.]: Booksurge, 2009.
Haisch, Bernard. The God theory: universes, zero-point fields and what's behind it all. San Francisco, CA: Weiser Books, 2006.
Hanks, Micah A. Magic, Mysticism and the Molecule: The search for sentient intelligence from other worlds. Scotts Valley: CreateSpace, 2010.
Harper, John Jay., and John Major. Jenkins. Tranceformers: shamans of the 21st century. Foresthill, CA: Reality P, 2009.
Heaven, Ross, and Howard G. Charing. Plant spirit Shamanism: traditional techniques for healing the soul. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2006.
Hesse, Hermann. Magister ludi: the glass bead game. [S.l.]: Bantam, Doubleday, Dell, 1980.
Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf. New York: Picador, 2002.
Hutchison, Michael. The book of floating: exploring the private sea. Nevada City, Calif.: Gateway Books and Tapes, 2003.
Huxley, Aldous. The doors of perception and Heaven and hell. New York: Perennial Classics, 2004.
Huxley, Aldous. The perennial philosophy. New York: Perennial Classics, 2004.
Irvin, J. R., and Jack Herer. The holy mushroom: evidence of mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity. [S.l.]: Gnostic Media Research & Pub., 2008.
Jenkins, John Major. The 2012 story: the myths, fallacies, and truth behind the most intriguing date in history. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2009.
Jung, C. G., and Aniela Jaffé. Memories, dreams, reflections. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
Laszlo, Ervin, and Jude Currivan. Cosmos: a co-creator's guide to the whole-world. Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, 2008.
Laszlo, Ervin. Quantum shift in the global brain: how the new scientific reality can change us and our world. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2008.
Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner, Dass Ram, and Karma-gli?-pa. The psychedelic experience: a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead. New York: Citadel P, 1995.
Lilly, John Cunningham, 1915-. The deep self: consciousness exploration in the isolation tank. Nevada City, CA: Gateways Books and Tapes, 2007.
Lipton, Bruce H., and Steve Bhaerman. Spontaneous evolution: our positive future (and a way to get there from here). Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, 2009.
Malachi. Living gnosis: a practical guide to gnostic Christianity. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 2005.
Martin, Stephan. Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search of Reality. Franklin Lakes, NJ: The Career P, Inc., 2010.
McKenna, Terence K., and Dennis J. McKenna. The invisible landscape: mind, hallucinogens, and the I ching. [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
McKenna, Terence K. Food of the gods: the search for the original tree of knowledge : a radical history of plants, drugs, and human evolution. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
McKenna, Terence K. The archaic revival: speculations on psychedelic mushrooms, the Amazon, virtual reality, UFOs, evolution, Shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess, and the end of history. [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
McLuhan, Marshall, and Quentin Fiore. The medium is the massage. New York: Bantam Books, 1967.
McTaggart, Lynne. The field: the quest for the secret force of the universe. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2002.
McTaggart, Lynne. The intention experiment: using your thoughts to change your life and the world. New York: Free P, 2007.
Meyer, Marvin W., and Wolf-Peter Funk. The Nag Hammadi scriptures. Int Rep Re ed. New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Mitchell, Melanie. Complexity a guided tour. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Narby, Jeremy. Intelligence in nature: an inquiry into knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.
Narby, Jeremy, Jan Kounen, and Vincent Ravalec. The psychotropic mind: the world according to ayahuasca, iboga, and shamanism. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street P, 2010.
Narby, Jeremy. The cosmic serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.
Nestor, James. Get high now. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2009.
Oroc, James. Tryptamine palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street P, 2009.
Page, Christine R. 2012 and the galactic center: the return of the great mother. Rochester, Vt.: Bear & Co. Books, 2008.
Pendell, Dale. Pharmako gnosis: plant teachers and the poison path. San Francisco: Mercury House, 2006.
Petersen, John L. A vision for 2012: planning for extraordinary change. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 2008.
Pinchbeck, Daniel. 2012: the return of Quetzalcoatl. New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, 2006.
Pinchbeck, Daniel, and Ken Jordan. Toward 2012: perspectives on the next age. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2009.
Prabhavananda, and Christopher Isherwood. Bhagavad-Gita: the song of God. New York: Signet Clasic, 2002.
Radin, Dean I. The conscious universe: the scientific truth of psychic phenomena. New York, N.Y.: HarperEdge, 1997.
Ram, Dass. Be here now, remember. [New York]: Hanuman Foundation, 1978.
Ram, Dass. Paths to god: living the Bhagavad Gita. New York: Harmony Books, 2004.
Russell, Peter. Waking up in time: finding inner peace in times of accelerating change. Novato, CA: Origin P, 1998.
Sheldrake, Rupert. Morphic resonance: the nature of formative causation. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street P, 2009.
Strassman, Rick. DMT: the spirit molecule : a doctor's revolutionary research into the biology of near-death and mystical experiences. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street P, 2001.
Strassman, Rick. Inner paths to outer space: journeys to alien worlds through psychedelics and other spiritual technologies. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street P, 2008.
Talbot, Michael. The holographic universe. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1991.
Tarnas, Richard. Cosmos and psyche: intimations of a new world view. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2006.
Teilhard, De Chardin, Pierre. The divine Milieu. New York: Perennial, 2001.
Teilhard, De Chardin, Pierre. The future of man ;. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Teilhard, De Chardin, Pierre. The phenomenon of man. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.
Thompson, Richard L. Maya: the world as virtual reality. Alachua, Fla.: Govardhan Hill Pub., 2003.
Thompson, William Irwin. Coming into being: artifacts and texts in the evolution of consciousness. New York: St. Martin's P, 1996.
Underhill, E. Mysticism. London: Methuen, 1977.
Vitimus, Andrieh. Hands-on chaos magic: reality manipulation through the Ovayki current. Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 2009.
Waggoner, Robert. Lucid dreaming: gateway to the inner self. Needham, Mass.: Moment Point P, 2009.
Watts, Alan. Become what you are. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.
Wilber, Ken. Integral life practice: a 21st century blueprint for physical health, emotional balance, mental clarity, and spiritual awakening. Boston: Integral Books, 2008.
Wilber, Ken. Integral spirituality: a startling new role for religion in the modern and postmodern world. Boston: Integral Books, 2006.
Wilber, Ken. Sex, ecology, spirituality: the spirit of evolution. Boston: Shambhala, 2000.
Wilber, Ken. The integral vision: a very short introduction to the revolutionary integral approach to life, God, the universe, and everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2007.