Published as a companion to the amazing film Fantastic Fungi, this beautiful book includes contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Suzanne Simard, Eugenia Bone, and many more experts.
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Greetings, fellow bright humans of the psychedelic renaissance! Banyen Books in Vancouver offers a wide and deep selection of books on Spirit / Plant / Medicine subjects, including all the key books by this year's presenters at the Conference.
Our webstore lists and describes them all, and you can browse and order them online. We will mail them out (usually the next business day, if the item is in stock -- and we can readily order in any listed title currently out of stock). Orders over $75 get free shipping in Canada.
From this page you can SEARCH for anything on our site (titles, authors, ideas...) -- and filter your results to hone in on your beloved subject areas. If you're into browsing key subject areas to see what we offer, look here:
Shamanism and Ritual
Transpersonal Psychology
Herbal Medicine
Cannabis: Culture & Medicine
Mushrooms & Fungi
Here are the key books of this year's presenters:
Fantastic Fungi
Mycelium Running
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World
Chris Kilham
Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook
Kava: Medicine Hunting
The Lotus and the Bud (Jan. 2021)
Michael Stuart Ani
Ghost Dance
Jeremy Narby
Cosmic Serpent
Shamans through Time
Intelligence in Nature
Psychotropic Mind
Martina Hoffmann
Inner Landscapes
Martin Lee
Smoke Signals
And if you're in the Vancouver area, you're welcome to phone us (604-732-7912 locally or 1-800-663-8442 from long distance) to place an order for either mailout or in-store pickup. Our store is open for browsing 11-7 every day.
Fantastic Fungi
$47.00 CAD |
Mycelium Running
Mycelium Running is a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through mushroom cultivation. The science goes like this: fine filaments of cells called mycelium, the fruit of which are mushrooms, already cover large areas of land around the world.
read more$43.00 CAD |
Growing Gourmet And Medicinal Mushrooms
After years of living in dread of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms, chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can’t get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. When the local forest or farmers market won’t suffice, it’s time to grow your own.
read more$55.00 CAD |
Psilocybin Mushrooms Of The World
“If you are going to buy one book on psilocybin mushrooms, get this one. It is up to date, comprehensive, and a beautiful object in itself. There are excellent photographs, and detailed descriptions of the many species (several of them new, including the extremely potent psilocybe azurescens).
read more$39.95 CAD |
Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook
The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook provides a practical guide to ayahuasca use, aiding seekers in making right—and safe—decisions about where to go, who to drink with, and what to expect.
read more$19.95 CAD |
Kava
Kava, Piper Methysticum, is the most effective relaxing and stress-relieving plant in all of nature. This book is the tale of plant researcher Chris Kilham's investigations into this plant and his far-ranging explorations deep in the South Pacific in search of a source of kava.
read more$15.95 CAD |
Lotus and the Bud
In India, both yoga and cannabis are considered gifts from the Hindu god Shiva. They are seen as twin currents of wisdom and enlightenment, allies for healing and consciousness expansion. As ethnobotanist and yogi Chris Kilham explains,
read more$21.50 CAD |
Cosmic Serpent
How have Amazonian indigenous peoples figured out some of the exceedingly complex botanical mysteries and mixtures, which become medicines, such as curare? How do they know so much about the properties of the jungle?
read more$23.00 CAD |
Shamans Through Time
This collection of essays traces Western civilization’s struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women—individuals with the power to summon and communicate with spirits.
read more$18.00 CAD |
Intelligence In Nature
Continuing the journey begun in The Cosmic Serpent, anthropologist Jeremy Narby ventures firsthand into traditional cultures and the leading edge of contemporary science to get a handle on nature’s secret ways of knowing.
read more
$17.00 CAD |
Psychotropic Mind
In the Amazon, shamans do not talk about psychotropic plants in terms of hallucinogens but as tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.
read more$19.95 CAD |
Inner Landscapes
By: |Art book of the most popular and recent paintings by Martina Hoffmann
- Preface by Stanislav Grof.
- Full exhibition list and bibliography
- All texts in three languages, English, French, German
read more$39.95 CAD |
Smoke Signals
Here, the author of Acid Dreams (which tells a similarly fascinating social history of LSD) tells the great American pot story—a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world’s most controversial—and revered, and vilified—plant
read more$30.00 CAD |
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