{"id":2238,"date":"2022-02-01T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:10:22","slug":"february-2022-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2022\/02\/01\/february-2022-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"february 2022 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mycelium wassonii<\/h3>\t\t\t

Brian Blomerth<\/strong>
\nThis colorful graphic novel tells the story of R. Gordon Wasson, vice-president of public relations for J.P. Morgan Bank, and his wife, Valentina Pavlova, who liked to eat mushrooms. Their love led them to Mexico and to Maria Sabina Garcia, a Mazatecan healer. Gordon and Valentina participated in a nocturnal ceremony involving psilocybin, called a\u00a0velada<\/em>, or wake. Upon their return to the United States, Wasson wrote a detailed article about their experience published in Life Magazine in 1957, \u00abIn Search of the Magic Mushroom\u00bb. It sparked widespread interest in psychedelic plants; Wasson became a renowned ethno-mycologist. Brian Blomerth is an illustrator, cartoonist and musician based in Brooklyn. His previous book was dedicated to Albert Hofmann, the sensational\u00a0Bicycle Day.<\/em>\u00a0Both take us to happy, hippie-trippy cartoon universe. (sgs)
\nAnthology Books<\/em> | November 21<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways<\/h3>\t\t\t

Bear Heart<\/strong>
\n\u00abI don\u2019t make the medicine; it was here before me. I\u2019ve been entrusted to be a caretaker of certain sacred ways.\u00bb Bear Heart (1918 – 2008), was a Muscogee Creek Native American Church Road Man with a talent for seeing people as individuals, and for making them feel seen and special in their own ways.\u00a0The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways<\/em>\u00a0contains the final words Bear Heart wrote before his \u00abgoing on\u00bb as well as contributions from friends and family whose lives were forever changed by Bear Heart\u2019s presence and work. In this new book, Bear Heart uses stories of his youth and traditional medicine practices to convey lessons and knowledge about living in harmony and with respect for all. Offering a mix of history and spiritual wisdom,\u00a0The Bear is My Father<\/em>\u00a0is co-authored by Reginah WaterSpirit, Bear Heart’s Medicine Helper and wife of 23 years.
\nIngram Publishers<\/em>\u00a0| January 22\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Urge. our history of addiction<\/h3>\t\t\t

Carl Erik Fisher<\/strong>
\nCarl Erik Fisher, an addiction physician and bioethicist, is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry. He also maintains a private psychiatry practice focusing on complementary and integrative approaches to treating addiction. His writing has appeared in Nautilus, Slate, and Scientific American MIND, among other outlets. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and son. As a psychiatrist and a patient recovering from addiction, he wonders, \u00abIs everyone somewhere on the addiction spectrum?\u00bb What factors \u2014 biological, psychological, social, cultural \u2014 play a role? Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding\u2014let alone addressing effectively
\nPenguin Press<\/em> | January 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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A Thousand Steps<\/h3>\t\t\t

T. Jefferson Parker<\/strong>
\nLaguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom\u2019s a stoner, his deadbeat dad a no-show, his brother\u2019s fighting in Nam, and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she\u2019s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn\u2019t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. In a town where the cops don\u2019t trust the hippies and the hippies don\u2019t trust the cops, uncovering what\u2019s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it\u2019s not already too late.
\nAudiobook<\/em> | Forge Books<\/em> | February 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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52 Ways to Walk. The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time<\/h3>\t\t\t

Annabel Streets<\/strong>
\nA revelatory and informative handbook for anyone stuck in a walking rut, 52 Ways to Walk is a love letter to walking. Walking strengthens our bodies, calms our minds and lifts our spirits. But it does so much more than this. Our vision, hearing, respiration, sleep, cognition, memory, blood pressure, sense of smell and balance (to name a few) are all enhanced by how we walk. For instance: Walking in cold weather burns extra fat and builds more muscle. Walking alone strengthens our memories. Walking in woodland helps us sleep. And there’s nothing more restorative than a romantic nighthike. Our choice of location, time, direction, duration, walking companion and gait, as well as the weather we opt to walk in, can transform our daily stroll. Annabel Streets explains the science behind each walking styles and provides practical tips for making more of your daily steps.
\nBloomsbury<\/em> | February 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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