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Every book Rick Doblin recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Rick Doblin appears on, in one place — not just one.
Rick Doblin’s most recommended books
- The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley
- Acid Test by Tom Shroder
- Realms of the human unconscious by Stanislav Grof
- Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by Dennis McKenna
- Simulations of God by John C. Lilly
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
- The Secret Chief Revealed by Myron J. Stolaroff
- Honor Thy Daughter by Marilyn Howell
- Maps of consciousness by Ralph Metzner
- Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by Dr John C Lilly
Richard Elliot Doblin is an American psychedelic drug advocate who is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Throughout his appearances on programs like The Joe Rogan Experience and The Shawn Ryan Show, Doblin recommended several foundational books exploring consciousness, history, and therapy. He recommended Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game to demonstrate how competitive human energies can be channeled and harnessed, and mentioned The Secret Chief Revealed by Myron J. Stolaroff to highlight Leo Zeff's work and his popularization of ibogaine in the United States. Doblin also recommended John C. Lilly's Simulations of God while discussing human perceptions of divinity, and Dennis McKenna's Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss during a conversation about Terrence and Dennis McKenna. Alongside these recommendations, Doblin discussed influential texts that shaped his path, such as Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, which outlines the brain as a reducing valve during mystical experiences. He recounted how Stanislav Grof's Realms of the Human Unconscious inspired him to dedicate his life to psychedelic research, and mentioned Tom Shroder's Acid Test to illustrate how veterans process severe trauma through MAPS therapy sessions.
Books recommended by Rick Doblin
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay chronicling the author's psychedelic experiences and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Discussed“aldus Huxley had had written the dors of perception and was talking about masculine and spiritual experiences”
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Acid Test
Acid Test by Tom Shroder is a compelling non-fiction book examining the history and therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances, focusing specifically on clinical research and trauma recovery.
Discussed“he realized that um there's a book acid test lsd ecstasy and the power to heal about this particular veteran and it's about our work”
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Realms of the human unconscious
Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof is a foundational text detailing observations and therapeutic methodologies derived from early psychedelic research involving LSD.
Discussed“It was his first book that he ever wrote it was realms of the human unconscious observations from lsd research”
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Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by Dennis McKenna is a compelling memoir that chronicles the author's extraordinary life experiences, early plant experiments, and adventures alongside his brother Terence McKenna within the world of ethnopharmacology and psychedelic exploration.
Recommended“so I think if if you know Dennis McKenna just wrote a book Brothers at the screaming abyss and there's a good discussion about some of the um criticism and the value of time wave zero”
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Simulations of God
Simulations of God by John C.
Recommended“John Lily wrote this great book one of the things he did I thought was great was called simulations of God”
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The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is a philosophical novel that explores an intellectual elite engaged in a complex, meditative game uniting all branches of knowledge and art.
Recommended“There's a book that I'd um recommend for people um by Herman Hess, and it's called The Glass Bead Game. Magister Ludy, the glass bead game. And and it helped Herman Hess win the Nobel Prize for literature.”
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The Secret Chief Revealed
The Secret Chief Revealed by Myron J.
Recommended“there's incredible book called The Secret Chief revealed about Leo Ze that's available on the map's website and it's his story about all the different drugs and how he uses them and he helped really popularize uh ibigan also in the United States”
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Honor Thy Daughter
Discussed“there's a woman that wrote a book honor thy daughter about her daughter who died in the early 30s from cancer”
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Maps of consciousness
Discussed“yes yeah and actually I was just um yesterday with and today with Ralph mner and I got the name from him in a way he wrote a book maps of Consciousness”
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Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
Discussed“but it was before that was programming and metaprogramming and the human bioom computer”
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Programming the Human Biocomputer
Programming the Human Biocomputer by John C.
Discussed“but it was before that was programming and metaprogramming and the human bioom computer”
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Realms of the human unconscious ; observations from LSD research
Discussed“so 51 years ago and that's when I was just 18 years old and I had just read um book by stanislav gra who was the world's leading LSD researcher at Hopkins his research was being just shut down after the backlash against the Psychedelic 60s and his book was about the therapeutic use of LSD but it was called”
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The Deep Self
The Deep Self by John Cunningham Lilly is a pioneering exploration of sensory deprivation, consciousness, and self-discovery through isolation tanks.
Discussed“well I grew up reading John Lily and in the 1971 actually the Deep self did you read that one”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #2319 - Rick Doblin | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2025-05-09 | 1 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1661 - Rick Doblin | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 2 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1964 - Rick Doblin | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 1 |
| #97 Rick Doblin - MDMA Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | The Shawn Ryan Show | 2024-02-19 | 3 |
| 115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic | People I (Mostly) Admire | 2023-09-30 | 2 |
| #202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-07-21 | 1 |
| #782 - Rick Doblin | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2016-04-07 | 2 |
| #371 - Rick Doblin | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2013-07-01 | 5 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
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