march 2023 – good to read

Psychedelic Buddhism. A User’s Guide to Traditions, Symbols, and Ceremonies

Lama Mike Crowley
Techniques for Buddhists who wish to incorporate psychedelics into their practice as well as for psychonauts who are interested in the maps of inner space provided by Buddhism. The author details how psychedelics have led to spontaneous awakening experiences and describes meditation techniques, with special attention being given to the generation of the Four Positive Attitudes.
Park Street Press

Should All Drugs Be legalized?

Mattha Busby
I have answered this question with yes ever since I spent a summer as a junior sociologist with the Canadian Commission into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, in Ottawa, in 1972. Combining visuals with carefully constructed narrative text, Bushby’s contribution to this crucial question provides a survey of the history of drug use, a review of the impact of the War on Drugs, an appraisal of the effects of legal versus illegal drugs, and an evaluation of the impact of the decriminalization of drugs.
Thames & Hudson

Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies –vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire. Graeber studied the politics and history of slavery and magic in Madagascar for his doctoral thesis and is the author of The Dawn of Everything.
Farrar Strauss and Giroux

The Netanyahus. An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligeable Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Joshua Cohen
Corbin College, in New York State, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian – but not an historian of the Jews – is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.
Random House

Ozone Therapy for the Treatment of Viruses. The Science and the Promise of Healing with Ozone

Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D.
One of our immune system’s key defenses is ozone, an oxygen molecule (O3) naturally produced by our antibodies to fight germs, viruses, and other invaders. For more than a century, doctors have used ozone therapy to effectively and safely treat a wide variety of diseases. Seifer shows not only how ozone therapy is effective against current viruses such as Covid-19 and Ebola but also how it can help the immune system learn to protect itself against emerging future viruses.
Healings Arts Press

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