{"id":3461,"date":"2025-04-01T04:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2025-04-01T04:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:54:32","slug":"goodnews-april-25-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2025\/04\/01\/goodnews-april-25-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"goodnews april 25 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have a Good Trip. Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Eugenia Bone<\/strong><\/p>\n

With her signature blend of first-person narrative and scientific rigor, Bone breaks down just how the complicated cocktail of psychoactive compounds is thought to interact with our brain chemistry. She explains how mindset and setting can impact a trip \u2013 whether therapeutic, spiritual\/mystical, or simply pleasure seeking \u2013 and vividly evokes the personalities and protocols that populate the tripping scene. For both seasoned trippers and the merely mushroom curious.
\nFlatiron Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ketamine Mystic. Journey Through the Nine Portals of Consciousness<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Bernhardt Zalaski<\/strong><\/p>\n

This books spans 5 years of the author\u2019s life, inside which time he experiments with the powerful psychedelic drug ketamine, first under medical supervision and eventually diving deeply into self-administration over the course of one particularly dark winter. This is an illustrated guidebook into the mystical inner realms, providing the reader with the keys to unlock the mysteries of deeper consciousness and eventually understand the fullness of the human experience.
\nSelf-published here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Light Eaters. How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth\u00a0<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Zo\u00eb Schlanger
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It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.
\nHarperCollins<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dream Count<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets.
\nHarperCollins<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Waiting on the Moon. Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses<\/h3>\t\t\t

by Peter Wolf
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This deck will obviously appeal to the Jungian mind: anyone involved in studying the archetypes or astrology. Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band) grew up in the Bronx, a child of \u201cfellow travelers\u201d whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to become a painter. Stories of his loving and sometimes eccentric parents complement scenes depicting a very young Bob Dylan as he arrived on the Greenwich Village folk scene. Reflections on Wolf\u2019s studies in Boston\u2014where he shared an apartment with David Lynch\u2014are braided with accounts of first love, an untraditional literary education, and early musical influences such as Muddy Waters.
\nWorkman<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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