The Revolution We Expected. Cultivating a New Politics of Consciousness
Claudio Naranjo
In his last book, psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo makes a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present in order to build a new world. He argues not only for a collective individual awakening, but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that they are in service to a better world. Naranjo targets our traditional education and global economic systems that increasingly neglect human development and must transform to meet the needs of future social evolution. Ultimately, he says, we need to embark on a collective process of rehumanizing our systems and establishing self-awareness as individuals to create the necessary global consciousness to realize a new path forward; stressing the need for education to teach wisdom over knowledge, and utilizing meditation and contemplative practices to form new ways to educate, and be educated.
Synergetic Press, September 2020
My Psychedelic Explorations – The Healing Power and Transformational Potential of Psychoactive Substances
Claudio Naranjo
Claudio Naranjo was the first to study the psychotherapeutic applications of ayahuasca, the first to publish on the effects of ibogaine, and a long-time collaborator with Sasha Shulgin in the research behind Shulgin’s famous books. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow, Dr. Naranjo gathered more clinical experience in individual and group psychedelic treatment than any other psychotherapist to date. In his final work, Dr. Naranjo shares his psychedelic autobiography along with previously unpublished interviews, session accounts, and research papers on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, including MDMA, ayahuasca, cannabis, iboga, and psilocybin. Naranjo’s work shows that psychedelics have the strongest potential for transforming and healing people over all therapeutic methods currently in use.
Park Street Press, September 2020
The Immortality Keys. The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Brian C. Muraresku
This is book you really want to read. It is not only well-written and full of humour, it also provides the keys to the central mysteries of antiquity and beyond. Finally, we have actual proof that the ancients spiked their holy potions with all kinds of drugs, from ergot to poppy, henbane, datura and more. Whereas from Neolithic times to around the birth of Jesus, beer was the root of sacred drinks, it was later substituted by wines so strong that they could kill you. The author visited with experts, made countless calls, studied for years and came up with groundbreaking results that vindicate what Albert Hofmann, Gordon Wasson and especially Carl Ruck, who lost his career of his theories, promoted in their famous book The Road to Eleusis – our ancestors used psychedelics to find the way to an eternal afterlife. Absolutely captivating. (sgs)
St. Martin’s Press, September 2020
Red Pill
Hari Kunzru
A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption.
One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation. It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation that threatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning.
Scribner, September 2020
The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen
Tiến has a secret he’s been keeping from his family. Is there a way to tell them he’s gay? Real life isn’t a fairytale but Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It’s hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn’t even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he’s going through? This graphic novel follows a young boy as he tries to navigate life through fairytales, an instant classic that shows us how we are all connected. The Magic Fish tackles tough subjects in a way that accessible with readers of all ages, and teaches us that no matter what—we can all have our own happy endings.
Random House Graphic, October 2020