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Trauma and Ecstasy: How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Abraham
: Psychedelic Pathways, 2024.“Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They’re not punchlines. They’re not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain. Trauma and Ecstasy takes a long, hard look at pain, from the sudden unexplained pelvic floor discomfort that afflicted Alex at the end of a trip abroad to the deeply rooted anxiety and shame of a childhood robbed of innocence. In this powerful and courageous memoir, Alex takes you on his journey of healing from sexual abuse while searching for answers to his health issues that traditional medicine failed to explain or treat.” (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 Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Stoddard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Cambridge Elements: New Religious Movements. “The rise of entheogenic religion – that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs – has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities – like all imagined communities – are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ralph Metzner: Explorer of Consciousness: The Life and Legacy of a Psychedelic Pioneer
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCathy Coleman; Ralph Metzner
Rochester: Park Street Press, 2024.“Reveals the vast impact of Ralph Metzner’s healing therapies and wisdom on colleagues, students, clients, and the fields in which he worked. Includes contributions from Rick Doblin, Charles S. Grob, Stan Grof, Stanley Krippner, Dennis McKenna, the late Christian Ratsch, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Claudia Mueller-Ebeling, Dorothy Fadiman, Luis Eduardo Luna, and others.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Dyck
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2024.“A gorgeously illustrated journey through psychedelics and their global history that explores how psychedelic visions have inspired and given meaning to humans throughout time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Jay
London: Thames & Hudson, 2024.“A global history of intoxication, exploring the international spectrum of drug use in cultures across the world, from prehistory to the present day.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by the author.
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Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Davis
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2024.“Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’ boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration.” (publisher’s blurb)
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A Finger in the Fishes Mouth
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Jarman
London: House Sparrow Press, 2024.A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book ‘A Finger in the Fishes Mouth’, originally published in 1972. Heavily illustrated from Jarman’s collection of postcards, the book combines text and visual imagery in a way which foreshadows his subsequent style as an artist and filmmaker. With the majority of the first edition having been destroyed by Jarman, this makes available a missing, significant piece of his oeuvre.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Psychedelic Chalice: Tales from the Aussie Underground
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDale Carruth
[Australia]: 3 Feathers Books, 2024.“Underground Psychedelic Therapy is alive and well and has been operating, largely with impunity, across Australia for the past 25 years. This book holds gems of wisdom from 10 underground facilitators who, despite great legal risk to themselves have agreed to spill the beans. Between them they have clocked up thousands of hours of immersive practice, offering lifesaving treatments to those people lucky enough to find them. They represent the true voices of wisdom and experience on psychedelic healing and their gems of knowledge seem essential to informing the way forward for both legal mainstream psychedelic therapy and traumatised people looking for authentic healing. Psilocybin Mushrooms, MDMA, Ayahuasca, Kambo, Mescaline Cactus, 5-MeODMT, Iboga – each offer their own unique healing profiles and all are covered in this book.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cobweb of Trips: A Literary History of Psychedelics
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickins
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2024.“Cobweb of Trips is a literary history of psychedelics that catches a sublime aesthetic weaving its way through mid-twentieth century Britain and beyond – one which asks how early experimenters sought to find a role for psychedelics in society. Spinning a psychospiritual thread from literature and the history of medicine, this story brings to light how the question of psychedelics, and the trips people had, were animated by the eras cultural transformations. From spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty, to political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, Cobweb of Trips is a poetic thread emerging when the psychedelic experience alighted in modern history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Collation, Reference Notation & Statement of Signing: A Workbook
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo Dumontet
Canberra: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2024.“This workbook discusses the various techniques which can be employed in book collation writing in order to provide readers with the capacity to construct collations and to interpret published ones. W.W. Greg’s and Fredson Bowers’s approach is discussed in depth, together with Thomas Tanselle’s view on how to handle inserted leaves. Upon this Greg-Bowers-Tanselle bedrock other possible solutions are also discussed. The exposition relies on a large number of examples and also on some exercises in order to render this workbook as practical a tool as possible. This workbook will be an invaluable guide for students of bibliography, early printed books cataloguers, and booksellers, but it is hoped that all those engaged in collation-writing may find it a useful reference tool.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Teddy Candoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art
AU$115.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Ondine Chavoya; David Evans Frantz
Los Angeles, New York, Monterey Park & Williamstown: Inventory Press, Independent Curators International, Vincent Price Art Museum & Williams College Museum of Art, 2024.“Accompanying the artists first retrospective, this title examines the work of artist Teddy Sandoval. A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, for 25 years Sandoval produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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South Eastern Australian Field Mushrooms: A Glimpse at Agaricus
AU$18.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeresa Lebel; Amelia-Grace Boxshall; Sapphire McMullan-Fisher
Caloundra: Queensland Mycological Society, 2024.“This guide illustrates a small portion of the known diversity of native and exotic-introduced species, important characters, and sporophore (fruitbody) forms in the genus Agaricus L. in temperate to tropical eastern and southern Australia.” (from rear cover)
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Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex K. Gearin
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.“Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by the author to the title page