{"id":2184,"date":"2021-12-01T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2021-12-07T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T04:29:08","slug":"december-2021-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2021\/12\/01\/december-2021-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"december 2021 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Luke and Rory Spowers (Eds.)<\/h3>\t\t\t

DMT \u2013 Entity Encounters. Dialogues on the Spirit Molecule<\/strong>
\nIncludes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke. Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, where it is released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title \u00abthe spirit molecule.\u00bb When taken as a psychedelic, either via ayahuasca or in pure form, DMT is experientially considered to be the strongest and strangest of all entheogens. The majority of high-dose users report visions of unknown yet curiously familiar alien worlds and encounters with sentient nonhuman presences.
\nSimon and Schuster<\/em> | October 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jessica Hundley and Pam Grossman (Eds.)<\/h3>\t\t\t

Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica<\/strong>
\nIncludes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke. Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, where it is released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title \u00abthe spirit molecule.\u00bb When taken as a psychedelic, either via ayahuasca or in pure form, DMT is experientially considered to be the strongest and strangest of all entheogens. The majority of high-dose users report visions of unknown yet curiously familiar alien worlds and encounters with sentient nonhuman presences.
\nSimon and Schuster<\/em> | October 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Claire Oshetsky<\/h3>\t\t\t

Chouette<\/strong>
\niny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. ‘It’s not yours,’ she tells him. ‘This baby will be an owl-baby.’ Odd, lonely, haunted by a mysterious past, Tiny’s always been an outsider. And she knows her child will be different. When Chouette is born, Tiny’s husband and family are devastated by her condition and strange appearance. Doctors tell them to expect the worst. Chouette can’t walk; she never speaks; she lashes out when frightened and causes chaos in public. Tiny’s husband wants to make her better: ‘Don’t you want our daughter to have a normal life?’ But though exhausted, shunned and bereft of her former life, Tiny thinks Chouette is perfect the way she is. Savage, startling, possessed of a biting humour and wild love, Chouette is a dark modern fable about mothering an unusual child.
\nLittle Brown<\/em> | November 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Mario Vargas Llosa<\/h3>\t\t\t

Harsh Times<\/strong>
\nthe CIA topples the government of Jacobo \u00c1rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that \u00c1rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today. In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating its history.
\nFaber & Faber<\/em> | November 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Hugh D. A. Goldring (Text) and Nicole Marie Burton (Illustrations)<\/h3>\t\t\t

Wonder Drug. LSD in the Land of Living Skies<\/strong>
\nSpanning the decades from the 1950s to present day, this captivating story follows Anglo-Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Humphrey Osmond down the rabbit hole of psychedelic research, conducted both in the lab and in his living room. Lurching from dazzling imagery to fanged delusions, studded with a cast of radical personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey (among others), Wonder Drug is a trip like no other. As Osmond and his colleagues grapple with professional isolation, a growing moral panic, and the burgeoning War on Drugs, their growing body of findings are maligned and misunderstood \u2013 but the promise of the pharmaceutical revolution is still on the horizon, and the radical research in Wyburn, Saskatchewan, may still be realized. Since this is a graphic novel, watch this<\/a>.
\nBetween the lines<\/em> | November 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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