A New Book · Summer 2026

The sensible case for psychedelics, without the dogma.

An evidence-based, values-grounded look at psychedelics for people who care about faith, family, personal responsibility, and ordered freedom — and who have never felt at home in the existing psychedelic conversation.

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The Library

A vetted library shelf, not a rabbit hole.

Books, organizations, and research worth your time — curated, categorized, and free of the usual noise.

All Books Organizations Research Faith & Psychedelics
Book

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

The founding text on the psychology of spiritual experience, and still the most serious place to start.

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Organization

Heroic Hearts Project

Veteran-focused nonprofit

Connecting veterans with psychedelic therapy and the research behind it. A credible on-ramp.

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Book

LSD: My Problem Child

Albert Hofmann

The chemist who discovered it, reckoning with what he'd made. Sober, first-hand, essential.

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Faith & Psychedelics

Cleansing the Doors of Perception

Huston Smith

The great scholar of world religions on entheogens and authentic spiritual experience.

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Research

Oregon Psilocybin Services Data

State of Oregon

The first regulated psilocybin program in the country, with public outcome and access data.

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Book

Tripping on Utopia

Benjamin Breen

Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science. History without the mythology.

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Free Guides

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Guide · 6 pages

The Five Biggest Fears of First-Time Journeyers

The worries that stop sensible people cold — named plainly, and answered with care.

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Guide · 8 pages

How to Talk to Your Doctor

A practical script for raising psychedelic therapy with a physician without the conversation going sideways.

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Guide · 5 pages

Five Questions Your Facilitator Needs to Answer Correctly

How to tell credible, careful practitioners from everyone else. The checklist we wish existed.

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The Authors

Who's behind this.

Wesley Smith, JD

Author

A writer and technology executive who came to this subject the hard way, after a paragliding accident and a long recovery reshaped how he thinks about healing, freedom, and what a serious person owes the truth.

Karen King, LMHC

Co-Author · Clinician

A licensed mental health counselor with experience in therapeutic healing and trauma-informed practice — a professional's credibility grounding a careful, non-ideological argument.