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The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test


edit to add- I got to "The Zoo Where You're Fed to God" by looking at Craig Clevenger's website for books that have inspired him. Craig also wrote a highly recommended book that has an eye - catching title: The Contortionist's Handbook.

Even better, get learnt:

https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X

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Not novels, but -

[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X) - a very readable account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters by Tom Wolfe

[The Teachings of Don Juan] (http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Juan-Yaqui-Knowledge/dp/0671600419/ref=la_B000APXVFG_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404522090&sr=1-1) - presented at the time as research/non-fiction, since questioned, but still pretty fascinating

also https://www.amazon.ca/Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X

Timothy Leary's Your Brain is God

Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Terence McKenna's True Hallucinations

Sort of depends on the type of book you're looking for but here are some of my faves in no particular order: Illusions, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Holographic Universe, Center of the Cyclone, True Hallucinations, The Archaic Revival, Be Here Now.

Read this - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031242759X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0553380648&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=18T8EFF1EGDE1SRVSJ4C

It's complicated, but I suppose it's safe to say that it introduced a sort of non-theistic mysticism into the youth culture in the SF Bay Area. When you can literally watch physical reality shift before your eyes, it's much easier to believe that you've moved past older ways of viewing the world.

Read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

I recommend this book.