{"id":2366,"date":"2022-07-01T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2022-07-01T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:19:06","slug":"july-2022-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2022\/07\/01\/july-2022-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"july 2022 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Unfolding Self. Varieties of Transformative Experience<\/h3>\t\t\t

Ralph Metzner\u00a0<\/strong>
\nDrawing from multiple disciplines ranging across the world\u2019s cultures (beginning with his collaborations with Dr. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert at Harvard University in the early 1960s), Dr. Metzner explores subtle concepts using a tapestry of myth, allegory, and historical context.\u00a0The Unfolding Self<\/em>\u00a0promises to provide its reader with valuable tools to become “wise, impartial judges” in their process of transformation into becoming a more integrated and fulfilled person. Readers who immerse themselves in these masterful descriptions can catalyse their own process of evolution.
\nSynergetic Press | May 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Divining Chaos. The Autobiography of an Idea<\/h3>\t\t\t

Aviva Rachmani<\/strong>
\nArtist Aviva Rahmani offers a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism.\u00a0Divining Chaos\u00a0<\/em>finds transparency into the moments in Rahmani’s life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Detailing the history that led her to two seminal projects\u2014Ghost Nets, restoring a coastal town dump to flourishing wetlands, and The Blued Trees Symphony, which applied her premises to challenge natural gas pipelines with a novel legal theory about land use\u2014Rahmani shares the decisions that shaped her life\u2019s work and thinking. Her discussions about trigger point theory argue for how to predict, confront, and determine outcomes to the ecological challenges we face today.
\nNew Village Press | June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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An Immense World. How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us<\/h3>\t\t\t

Ed Yong<\/strong>
\nThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions – the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. And much more.
\nRandom House | June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Lapvona: A Novel<\/h3>\t\t\t

Ottessa Moshfegh<\/strong>
\nittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life\u2019s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. Ina\u2019s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. For some people, Ina\u2019s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place. Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people\u2019s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine.
\nPenguin | June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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A Botanist\u2019s Guide to Parties and Poisons<\/h3>\t\t\t

Kate Khavari<\/strong>
\nNewly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues\u2019 beliefs about women\u2019s academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father\u2019s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university’s large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn\u2019t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors\u2019 wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin.
\nCrooked Lane Books | June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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