Category: Editorial

Torsten Passie
As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Here, Torsten Passie aims to explore a deeper and more differentiated understanding of MDMA and its history. He has conducted personal interviews with most of the people significant in the history of MDMA and provides a lot of new material to present the first comprehensive overview of the history of MDMA in Europe and the U.S.
Oxford University Press

Don Lattin
God on Psychedelics takes the reader on a magical mystery tour across the changing religious landscape, exploring a new kind of trinity that blends psychedelic insight, psychological healing and spiritual revival. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith?
Apocryphile Press

RJ Smith
Much of his life is known and has been described in the hundreds of tributes that marked his passing, yet the secretive complexity that encapsulated his life and underscored his music was never explored. Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll and author of classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybllene,” “You Never Can Tell,” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” finds himself portrayed as of one of the great American artists, entertainers, guitarists, and lyricists of the 20th century.
Hachette Books

Michael B. Aixala
What began as an attempt to help others became a work that traces the evolution of psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration research from the 1960s to the present moment, explains therapeutic techniques and outlines a clinician’s real-world observations on the deep work of healing. For practitioners, their patients, and those seeking integration as a tool for self and collective discovery.
Ingram Publishers Services

Pragya Agarwal
How we interpret emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times, and – despite improvements in societal equality – continues to be today. Dr Pragya Agarwal examines the impact this has on men and women – especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history – and imagines how a future with liberated emotions might look.
Canongate Books