News Update, February 2025: Microdosing psychedelics was a single chapter in The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide, but now, 14 years later, Jim Fadiman along with co-author Jordan Gruber have completed their book, Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance. With the help of participatory citizen scientists worldwide, and scientists now increasingly turning their attention to microdosing, we have learned a great deal since Explorer’s Guide came out. For updates, new research, and other microdosing information, please go to https://MicrodosingBook.com. Thank you for your continued interest.
“Jim Fadiman’s manual offers helpful and well-informed guidance for those who seek ‘the divine within’ through sacred plants and psychedelic substances.”
Daniel Pinchbeck, author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head
“This is some of the most thoughtful, wise, heartfelt, and essential instruction for the use of sacred medicine.”
Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
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- The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide
- The book reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and self-discovery as well as how LSD has facilitated scientific and technical problem-solving
- It reveals how ultra-low doses improve cognitive functioning, emotional balance, and physical stamina
- This year 600,000 people in the U.S. alone will try LSD for the the first time, joining the 23 million who have already experimented with this substance
Called “America’s wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use,” James Fadiman has been involved with psychedelic research since the 1960s. The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide addresses the immediate and long-term effects of psychedelic use for spiritual (high dose), therapeutic (moderate dose), and problem-solving (low dose) purposes. Fadiman outlines the best practices for safe, sacred entheogenic voyages learned through his more than 40 years of experience–from the benefits of having a sensitive guide during a session (and how to be one) to the importance of the setting and pre-session intention.
James Fadiman reviews the newest as well as the neglected research into the psychotherapeutic value of visionary drug use for increased personal awareness and a host of serious medical conditions, including his recent study of the reasons for and results of psychedelic use among hundreds of students and professionals. He reveals new uses for LSD and other psychedelics, including extremely low doses for improved cognitive functioning and emotional balance. Cautioning that psychedelics are not for everyone, he dispels the myths and misperceptions about psychedelics circulating in textbooks and clinics as well as on the internet. Exploring the life-changing experiences of Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, and Huston Smith as well as Francis Crick and Steve Jobs, James Fadiman shows how psychedelics, used wisely, can lead not only to healing but also to scientific breakthroughs and spiritual epiphanies.