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Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Crowley
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2019.“Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to the central role which psychedelics played in Indian religions. It traces their history from the mysterious soma potion, celebrated in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, to amrita, the sacramental drink of Vajrayana Buddhism. Although amrita used in modern Vajrayana ceremonies lacks any psychoactivity, there is copious evidence that the amrita used by the earliest Vajrayana practitioners was a potent entheogen. It is the nature of this psychedelic form of the sacrament which is the central topic of this book. In particular, Secret Drugs of Buddhism attempts to identify the specific ingredients employed in amrita’s earliest formulations. To this end, the book presents evidence from many countries in which the Vajrayana movement flourished. These include Bhutan, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet but special attention is given to India, the land of its origin.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuis Eduardo Luna; Steven F. White
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2016.“The Ayahuasca Reader is an expansive anthology of texts translated from several different languages covering multiple aspects of the ayahuasca experience. The book is a classic in ayahuasca literature and a must read for those interested in learning more about this sacred plant medicine.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJustice Rivera
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality-we are living through a political moment when debates about bodily autonomy are at a fever pitch. Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug UseIn the words of leading advocates, service providers, and the scholars whose lives and communities have been harmed by American neo-colonial policies, Body Autonomy offers promising, healing-centered interventions that represent a critical culture shift.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Dyck; Clancy Cavnar; Patrick Farrell; Ibrahim Gabriell; Beatriz C. Labate; Glauber Loures de Assis
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.“This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics. While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge. Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a series of captivating interviews, this collection taps into women’s networks around the world throughout the 20th century. It reveals some of the sophisticated and creative ways women have influenced our understanding of psychedelics and how they will continue to protect these stories as we face our psychedelic future. Our collection intentionally moves beyond an American set of stories, teasing out networks in Latin America. This collection brings together authors from the Chacruna Institute and Chacruna Latinamerica to engage readers in conversations that move across time and place throughout the Americas. It is the first of its kind to balance non-English contributions through translation of stories exploring different cultural contexts outside the United States, where women have contributed to this enduring history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Mind of Plants: Narrative of Vegetal Intelligence
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn C. Ryan; Patricia Vieira; Monica Gagliano
Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2021.“Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world. From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at large has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual teachers and seekers. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence brings together works from all these disciplines and more in a collection of essays that highlights what we know and what we intuit about botanical life. The Mind of Plants, featuring a foreword by Dennis McKenna, is a collection of short essays, narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans. Contributors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times’ best seller Braiding Sweetgrass, Jeremy Narby, John Kinsella, Luis Eduardo Luna, Megan Kaminski and dozens more.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarc B. Aixala
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.History and guide to the application of psychedelics in therapy from the sixties to today.
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The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis McKenna
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2023.“Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna’s childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author’s experiences with and reflections on psychedelics, philosophy, and scientific innovation.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKile M. Ortigo
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2021.“With the second renaissance and re-emergence of psychedelics in Western society, the public and therapists alike are confronting new areas of exploration with few comprehensive models available to aid in the profound process of integrating such powerful and mystical-like experiences into one’s life. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy offers one useful model for this work, but access to even traditional therapy is limited due to expense and inadequate specialized training. With questions surrounding legal access, criminalization, and medical indications and contraindications, the immediate future of psychedelic-assisted therapy remains shrouded in uncertainty, even in the face of expanding interest and promise. Beyond the Narrow Life seeks to ‘thread a needle’ by addressing profound themes elicited by psychospiritual and therapeutic use of psychedelics while avoiding merely ‘preaching to the choir.’ This book explores common topics that emerge during psychedelic journeys by integrating several frameworks, spanning evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy, Jungian depth psychology, existential philosophy, compassion and mindfulness practices, comparative mythology, pop culture, film, and scientific understandings of the cosmos. Instead of a dry overview of big ideas, Dr. Ortigo gently guides readers through an awe-inspiring journey that confronts the deeper questions and concerns we all face as humans in this modern time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRam Dass; Ralph Metzner; Gary Bravo
Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2010.“No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent Book Awards Finalist, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture explores these experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen photographs, personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass, and conversations with luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Charles Mingus, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Belser; Clancy Cavnar; Beatriz C. Labate
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.“As psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility and diversity in psychedelic science, practice, and discourse… Queering Psychedelics integrates indigenous outlooks on psychedelics, gender roles, and identity while aligning them with those of other marginalized groups: women, people of color, the disabled, the impoverished. This book interrogates the continuing radical potential of queer psychedelia in today’s era of assimilation, paving the way for an inclusive and intersectional world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.Psychotherapist and researcher Ralph Metzner employs academic and spiritual knowledge to investigate human growth and transformation.
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Psychedelic Justice
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatriz Caiuby Labate; Clancy Cavnar
Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2021.Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture.
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The Revolution We Expected: Cultivating a New Politics of Consciousness
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaudio Naranjo
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2020.“The Revolution We Expected presents a call for individual and societal transformation in order to rebuild and humanize our institutions and our communities to realize a post-patriarchal world and elevated consciousness as a global community. In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo uses The Revolution We Expected to make a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present. The book presents a map that argues not only for collective individual awakening but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that our educational and cultural lessons are in service to a better world. The author targets traditional education and our global economic system that increasingly neglect human development and must transform to meet the needs of future social evolution. He stresses the need for education to teach wisdom over knowledge and he suggests meditation and contemplative practices can help us realize new ways to learn. Ultimately, we need to embark on a collective process of re-humanizing our systems and establishing self-awareness as individuals to create the necessary global consciousness to realize a new way forward.” (publisher’s blurb)