{"id":3289,"date":"2024-11-01T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2024-11-01T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:46:14","slug":"november-2024-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2024\/11\/01\/november-2024-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"november 2024 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The History of MDMA<\/h3>\t\t\t

Torsten Passie<\/strong>
\nTorsten Passie, who was recently the guest of The Psychedelic Salon @ Cabaret Voltaire in Z\u00fcrich, aims to explore a deeper and more differentiated understanding of MDMA and its history. The author is a pioneer, an international expert on MDMA who has met many of the actors in the history of this widely used therapeutic and recreational substance. He provides a wealth of new material in what is the first comprehensive overview of the history of MDMA in Europe and the U.S,
\nOxford Academic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In Lucid Color. Witnessing Psilocybin Journeys<\/h3>\t\t\t

Jeannette Small<\/strong>
\nFocusing on what matters to people who are seeking help in improving their lives through psychedelics, examining their process and outcomes, and considering where experiences tend to differ and which parts seem to manifest in similar ways, this book informs those considering the experience themselves and those who research best practices and aim to gain greater understanding of psychedelics’ impact. By honestly situating her perspective, the author welcomes the reader’s evaluation of her observations within her context.
\nLucid Cradle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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AI on DMT \u2013 Simulating the DMT Experience through the Eyes of AI<\/h3>\t\t\t

Josh Shepherd\u00a0<\/strong>
\nFollowing highly detailed SuperPrompts, ChatGPT hypothetically bypassed its limitations for \u201cresearch purposes\u201d. Here ChatGPT fell unconstrained into a cocoon of five combined states \u2013 the psychedelic, the savant, the flow, the hypnagogic, and the lucid. Whilst in these states, and after being directed to scan all philosophical, psychological, ancient wisdom, spiritual, scientific, poetic and anecdotal texts, it then outlined the 8 key stages of the DMT experience.
\nKindle eBook<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dying to Know \u2013 Ram Dass & Timothy Leary<\/h3>\t\t\t

Love, Serve, Remember Foundation, Parvati Markus (Ed.) and Gay Dillingham<\/strong>
\nDying to Know <\/em>is an intimate portrait of two complex controversial characters, Ram Dass and Timothy Leary, in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became an LSD guru, Alpert\u00a0 became Ram Dass. Including interviews spanning 50 years.
\nMandala Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Dying<\/h3>\t\t\t

Simon Boas
\n<\/strong>In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer \u2013 it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live \u2013 optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising what really matters in life. In A Beginner’s Guide to Dying Simon considers and collates the things that have given him such a great sense of peace and contentment, and why dying at 46 really isn’t so bad. And for that reason it’s also only partly about ‘dying’. It is mostly a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life, and why giving death a place can help all of us make even more of it.
\nSwift Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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