Have a Good Trip. Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience
by Eugenia Bone
With her signature blend of first-person narrative and scientific rigor, Bone breaks down just how the complicated cocktail of psychoactive compounds is thought to interact with our brain chemistry. She explains how mindset and setting can impact a trip – whether therapeutic, spiritual/mystical, or simply pleasure seeking – and vividly evokes the personalities and protocols that populate the tripping scene. For both seasoned trippers and the merely mushroom curious.
Flatiron Books
Ketamine Mystic. Journey Through the Nine Portals of Consciousness
by Bernhardt Zalaski
This books spans 5 years of the author’s life, inside which time he experiments with the powerful psychedelic drug ketamine, first under medical supervision and eventually diving deeply into self-administration over the course of one particularly dark winter. This is an illustrated guidebook into the mystical inner realms, providing the reader with the keys to unlock the mysteries of deeper consciousness and eventually understand the fullness of the human experience.
Self-published here
The Light Eaters. How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by Zoë Schlanger
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.
HarperCollins
Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets.
HarperCollins
Waiting on the Moon. Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
by Peter Wolf
This deck will obviously appeal to the Jungian mind: anyone involved in studying the archetypes or astrology. Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band) grew up in the Bronx, a child of “fellow travelers” whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to become a painter. Stories of his loving and sometimes eccentric parents complement scenes depicting a very young Bob Dylan as he arrived on the Greenwich Village folk scene. Reflections on Wolf’s studies in Boston—where he shared an apartment with David Lynch—are braided with accounts of first love, an untraditional literary education, and early musical influences such as Muddy Waters.
Workman