{"id":3066,"date":"2024-05-01T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:05:16","slug":"goodnews-2024-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2024\/05\/01\/goodnews-2024-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"goodnews 2024 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forbidden Wisdom. Revelations about Psychedelic Substances at the Source of Spiritual Traditions<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Stephan Schillinger<\/p>\n

Drawing on the work of American scholars as well as scientific and historical evidence, the author shares his reflections on the origins of spirituality and the great religious traditions that followed. Thoroughly and extensively sourced, his account explores groundbreaking questions and assumptions about the nature of reality and psychedelic experiences, leading to the expanded states of consciousness he proposes as the very origin of spiritual feeling. Stephan Schillinger is a french author in the field of spirituality. He has been exploring transpersonal psychology, shamanic traditions and expanded states of consciousness for over 20 years.
\nAmazon<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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John Szwed Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith<\/h3>\t\t\t

by John Szwed<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was always broke, generally intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, had a front-row seat to a young Thelonious Monk, lived with Allen Ginsberg, was admired by Susan Sontag, and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation\u2026
\nFarrar, Strauss and Giroux<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n

The author, on whom the Iranian government issued a fatwa in 1989, is known to have barely survived an attempt on his life, in 2022, losing an eye and the mobility in his right arm. That makes it all the more heartwarming that the famous author does not allow himself to be blinded by the hatred with which he was persecuted. On Stephen Colbert’s talk show on April 16, he quipped: “Puritans are people who are terribly worried that someone, somewhere might be happy” and: “Fanatics have no fun!” (SGS)
\nRandom House<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Karos<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Jenny Erpenbeck<\/p>\n

Kairos tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. With enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears.
\nNew Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Thorn Tree<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Max Ludington<\/p>\n

A single mother, Celia leaves her young son Dean for weeks at a time with her father, Jack, who stays at her house while she’s on location. Jack and Daniel strike up a tentative friendship as Dean takes to visiting Daniel’s cottage, but something about Jack seems off. He is not the harmless grandparent he pretends to be. This dark story unfolds o the sound of the Grateful Dead, and the secrets that both Jack and Daniel have harbored for fifty years.
\nSt. Martin’s Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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