Category: Editorial

by Cathy Coleman (Ed.)

ncludes contributions from Charles S. Grob, Stan Grof, Stanley Krippner, Dennis McKenna, the late Christian Rätsch, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Claudia Mueller-Ebeling, Dorothy Fadiman, Luis Eduardo Luna, and others. Renowned as a pioneering psychologist, psychedelic elder, alchemical explorer, and shamanic teacher, the late Ralph Metzner (1936–2019) contributed profoundly to consciousness research, transpersonal psychology, and contemporary psychedelic studies across his more than 50-year career.
Park Street Press

by Zack Leary

Zack Leary has a unique perspective on psychedelics. He offers context on both the cultural history and present, while acknowledging and honoring the Indigenous roots of many of these traditions. In addition to instructions for intention, use, and integration, Leary addresses topics like healing trauma, psychological and spiritual experiences, questions of legalization, and how psychedelics relate to and can help people heal from addiction. Zack is Timothy Leary’s son.
Sounds True

by Peter Dickins

Spinning a psychospiritual thread from literature and the history of medicine, this story brings to light how the question of psychedelics, and the trips people had, were animated by the era’s cultural transformations in Britain. From spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty, to political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, Cobweb of Trips is a poetic thread emerging when the psychedelic experience alighted in modern history.
Psychedelic Press

by Julie Beeler

More closely related to humans than they are to plants, fungi are fascinating organisms—and they are a rich resource for color collectors! Blending scientific detail, botanical illustrations, and creative inspiration, artist and educator Julie Beeler invites you to peek into her workroom as she introduces different types of dye mushrooms—from boletes to polypores to tooth fungi—and walks you through her color-harvesting process.
Chronicle Books

by Keanu Reeves / China Melville

There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting narrative, these two artists have created something unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.
Del Rey

Cluster headache is widely considered the most severe pain disorder that humans experience. There is no cure, and little funding available for research into developing treatments. When Joanna Kempner met Bob Wold in 2012, she was introduced to a clandestine network determined to find relief using magic mushrooms. These ‘Clusterbusters,’ decided to do the research that medicine left unfinished. They produced their own psychedelic treatment protocols and managed to get academics at Harvard and Yale to test their results.
Hachette Books

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever.
Penguin

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They pack their schedules with classes, fill every waking hour with activities, and even sabotage relationships with friends to “get ahead.” The drive to optimize performance has only resulted in skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression, and even self-harm: how can we teach our kids to strive towards excellence without crushing them?
Random-House

We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet a profound question remains: Are we alone in the universe? We have never been closer to answering this question. In The Secret Life of he Universe, the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life, an exhilarating journey for anyone who has ever looked up at the stars and wondered what might be out there.
Simon & Schuster

In this graphic novel, Pedro lerans that his Abuelito, a revolutionary and a hero, is coming to live with his family. Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the voyage of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache. Along the way, Pedro finally connects with his Abuelito and learns what it means to grow up and find his grit.
Dial Books for Young Readers (10 – 13 y.o.)