Seeing What There Is
Erica Rex
In 2009, following a breast cancer diagnosis, Rex found herself spiraling into a depression that led her to a groundbreaking clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, where she was given two doses of psilocybin. As she reflects on her tumultuous childhood marked by violent abuse from psychiatrist parents, Rex uncovers the psychological influences that shaped her life and therapeutic search. Despite years of failed conventional treatments, Rex sought alternative paths, discovering transformative healing through ayahuasca, MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT.
She Writes Press
Drinking the Serpent. Ayahuasca: Preparation, Ceremony and Integration from the Heart of the Amazon
Fabrizio Beverini et al.
Drinking the Serpent is a collection of articles by the facilitators of Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Center, written from inside. Fabrizio Beverina, MSc in Biomedical Engineering and founder of the center, Dr. Caterina Conti, and Dominic Maccini draw on years of daily practice with ayahuasca and the ancestral medicines of the Amazon to produce a book that is rigorous, honest, and deliberately uncomfortable. This is not a book for people looking for confirmation. It is a book for people willing to stay in the storm.
Kindle Edition
Psychedelics and Human Potential: Practices for Deep Healing and Self-Actualization
Carlos Warter (with Arthur Lawida)
Despite an unsettled legal landscape, the promise and potential of psychedelics continue to be at the forefront of thinking and research in the United States and around the world. What medicinal and therapeutic properties do the substances of MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ibogaine, ayahuasca, and ketamine possess, and how can they help us to grow as individuals and as a culture? This book explains how psychedelics can be used in a transpersonal context for sustainable growth and self-discovery. It suggests tools and practices that can round out a program of self-development.
Park Street Press
Dead, but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Paul Tremblay
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
William Morrow
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris
This field guide shows readers not just how to identify close to fifty birds, but also how to identify with them. Macfarlane describes each bird’s habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them―and how their lives intersect with our own. On every page we encounter Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted from life in water color and gold leaf, animated with extraordinary detail.
W. W. Norton and Company