Books

Good Medicine Wants to Be Found: Psychedelics and Plant Spirit Teachings

A guide to psychedelics and plant medicines for spiritual awakening and responsible practice

• Presents stories and guidelines for working with ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin, cannabis, MDMA, LSD, and 5-MeO-DMT safely

• Explains how to build ceremonial frameworks, protection practices, and integration methods to support healing and spiritual growth

• Highlights indigenous wisdom on plant and ancestor communication to reorient psychedelic work toward service, humility, and planetary responsibility

Stephen Gray combines his fifty years of experience with psychedelics with accounts from elders, therapists, and ceremony leaders to show how ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin, cannabis, MDMA, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, Salvia divinorum, and coca can support emotional release, trauma healing, and expanded consciousness. The author highlights the importance of preparation, intention, and respect for indigenous traditions in psychedelic work.

Through short stories, Gray describes ritual structures including Native American Church peyote meetings, Santo Daime works, and mestizo ayahuasca ceremonies, as settings for psychedelic experiences. He details the roles of the roadman and ayahuasquero in the use of plant diets, music and ícaros, smudging and cleansing, and post-ceremony integration practices that help stabilize insights and regulate difficult emotions. He offers guidelines for cannabis work, self-observation, meditation, and cultivating intuition.

Situating individual experiences within a wider cultural and ecological context, Gray calls on plant spirits, the ancestors, elemental forces, and planetary intelligence to support your experiences. He looks at the wounded healer, the sacred feminine, and the emergence of the “future human” to frame psychedelic work as part of a collective shift in consciousness.

This book offers concrete, experience-based guidance on using psychedelic medicines for inner work, ethical conduct, and participation in planetary awakening.

How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World

• With contributions from Christopher Bache, Zoe Helene, Dennis McKenna, Martina Hoffmann, The Dank Duchess, Jamie Wheal, Grandmother Maria Alice, and others.

• Explores the immense healing intelligence of nature, the wisdom of ancient indigenous prophecies and shamanic practices, the importance of the Divine Feminine for environmental regeneration, and the crucial role of psychedelic and entheogenic plants in initiating transformations of consciousness.

Cannabis and Spirituality

Includes chapters by 18 authoritative and influential voices of the modern cannabis movement, including Kathleen Harrison, Joan Bello, Hamilton Souther, Steven Hager, Chris Bennett, Dee Dussault, Jeremy Wolff, and Roger Christie

• Explores the use of marijuana in a wide range of spiritual practices, including meditation, yoga, chanting, visualization, shamanism, group ceremonies, work with other entheogens, and as a creative aid.

Returning to Sacred World

Returning to Sacred World clearly explains our spiritual predicament in this time of crisis and transformation and offers extensively field-tested teachings and tools for awakening including meditation prayer and sacred plant medicines that elders say are here now as key allies to help us heal ourselves and our planet. Mystics and indigenous wisdom keepers are saying that an opening has now been created for a lifesaving vision arising from and uniting all corners of the Earth. The vision tells us that to sustain our world we need to transcend dogmas boundaries and hesitation and awaken to our innate wisdom and our connectedness to each other the living Earth and the heart of the Great Spirit. – Amazon