Mike Marinacci is an independent expert on psychedelic spiritual groups and nontraditional American religious sects. He is the author of California Jesus and Mysterious California and coauthor of the bestselling Weird California. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

AcknowledgmentsForeword by J. Christian Greer, Ph.D.

Introduction
PART ONE
Major Sects
Superstars of the Entheogenic Spiritual Underground

ONE
The Native American Church
Trouble and Triumph on the Long Peyote Road

TWO
The Church of the Awakening
Heartland Explorations in Mescaline Awareness

THREE
The Peyote Way Church of God
Outlaw Stewards of the Magic Cactus

FOUR
The Oklevueha Native American Church
Bringing Many Medicines to the White Man

FIVE
The League for Spiritual Discovery
Turning On and Tuning In with Timothy Leary

SIX
The Neo-American Church
The Chief Boo Hoo Presents Massive Doses of Acid Absurdity

SEVENThe Brotherhood of Eternal Love
The Orange Sunshine Conspiracy

EIGHT
Shivalila
The Wandering Entheogenic Tribe

NINE
The Church of Naturalism
From LSD Rescues to L.A. Murders

TEN
The Church of the Tree of Life
The Sacramental Garden of Legal Highs

ELEVEN
Temple of the True Inner Light
A DPT Eucharist on the Lower East Side

TWELVE
The Shiva Fellowship
Cannabis Communion on Hippie Hill

THIRTEEN
The Psychedelic Venus Church
Sex, Drugs, and the Goddess of Ecstasy

FOURTEEN
The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
Burning Down Babylon with Jah’s Ganja

FIFTEEN
The Church of the Universe
Eden in the Great Green North

SIXTEEN
The Hawai’i Cannabis (THC) Ministry
Holy Smoke in Paradise

SEVENTEEN
The International Church of Cannabis
A Gothic Church, Urban Murals, and Elevationism

EIGHTEEN
Ayahuasca Healings
Plant Shamanism in the Internet Age

PART TWO
Minor Sects
An A–Z Guide from Ambrosia to Zide

CONCLUSION
Psychedelic Sects
From Prehistory into the Third Millennium

APPENDIX
Psychedelic Substances and Their Associated Sects

Notes

Bibliography

Index