{"id":4135,"date":"2026-06-01T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:01:35","slug":"goodnews-june-2026-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2026\/06\/01\/goodnews-june-2026-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"goodnews june 2026 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seeing What There Is<\/h3>\t\t\t

Erica Rex<\/strong>
\nIn 2009, following a breast cancer diagnosis, Rex found herself spiraling into a depression that led her to a groundbreaking clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, where she was given two doses of psilocybin. As she reflects on her tumultuous childhood marked by violent abuse from psychiatrist parents, Rex uncovers the psychological influences that shaped her life and therapeutic search. Despite years of failed conventional treatments, Rex sought alternative paths, discovering transformative healing through ayahuasca, MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT.
\nShe Writes Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Drinking the Serpent. Ayahuasca: Preparation, Ceremony and Integration from the Heart of the Amazon<\/h3>\t\t\t

Fabrizio Beverini\u00a0 et al.<\/strong>
\nDrinking the Serpent<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of articles by the facilitators of Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Center, written from inside.\u00a0Fabrizio Beverina, MSc in Biomedical Engineering and founder of the center, Dr. Caterina Conti, and Dominic Maccini draw on years of daily practice with ayahuasca and the ancestral medicines of the Amazon to produce a book that is rigorous, honest, and deliberately uncomfortable. This is not a book for people looking for confirmation. It is a book for people willing to stay in the storm.
\nKindle Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Psychedelics and Human Potential: Practices for Deep Healing and Self-Actualization<\/h3>\t\t\t

Carlos Warter (with Arthur Lawida)
\n<\/strong>Despite an unsettled legal landscape, the promise and potential of psychedelics continue to be at the forefront of thinking and research in the United States and around the world. What medicinal and therapeutic properties do the substances of MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ibogaine, ayahuasca, and ketamine possess, and how can they help us to grow as individuals and as a culture? This book explains how psychedelics can be used in a transpersonal context for sustainable growth and self-discovery. It suggests tools and practices that can round out a program of self-development.
\nPark Street Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dead, but Dreaming of Electric Sheep<\/h3>\t\t\t

Paul Tremblay
\n<\/strong>Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn\u2019t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world\u2019s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can\u2019t refuse. One sham interview later, she\u2019s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state\u2014one with proprietary AI implanted in his head\u2014from California to the East Coast.
\nWilliam Morrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss<\/h3>\t\t\t

Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris<\/strong>
\nThis field guide shows readers not just how to identify close to fifty birds, but also how to identify with<\/em>\u00a0them. Macfarlane describes each bird\u2019s habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them\u2015and how their lives intersect with our own. On every page we encounter Morris\u2019s exhilarating artwork, painted from life in water color and gold leaf, animated with extraordinary detail.
\nW. W. Norton and Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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