$22.40
ISBN: 9781594204227
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Published: Penguin Press - May 15th, 2018
Coming from a skeptic's perspective myself I found Pollan's book not only accessible but both engaging and divinely well written. This is the perspective the psychedelic culture desperately needed to voice their triumphs, and Pollan does more than sing the praises for psychedelics as a means to heal and expand ourselves, but tackles the controversial history surrounding it without feeling like he needs to defend it.
Complete with a dynamic cast of characters who help and guide him along the way, we learn as he learns, and we take these trips along with him through the importance of storytelling, discovering the intimate details about the mind that these substances uncover. Where might all this be going? It seems only time may tell, and perhaps Pollan himself.
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501179440
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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2018
Sederer offers practical yet controversial advice to deal with our raging opiate addiction epidemic. Recognizing our historic urge to use narcotics, alcohol, and other substances, he argues against harsh punishment and unrealistic goals of abstinence, and suggests medically-administered alternative drugs, even small doses of LSD, could help purge dependency. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$13.99
ISBN: 9780692401514
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Published: Up to Something Publishing - March 16th, 2015
Dan Ryckert, a popular Internet Person, may be a professional goof, but he DOES occasionally have lucid moments in which he seems like a real human being. This quasi-memoir chronicles Dan's battles with anxiety, beginning when he was in college. This is not a touchy-feely self-help book, it is a frank look at what anxiety is, what it feels like, and how to live with it. An easy, quick read, and a great entry point for those looking to understand their, or a loved ones, anxiety, perhaps before diving headfirst into the crowded pseudo-science "cures" out there. ~ Reviewed by Chris Linendoll
$22.40
ISBN: 9781594204227
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Published: Penguin Press - May 15th, 2018
Michael Pollan does it again! This book is a fascinating view into the world of psychedelics from the vantage point of a skeptical journalist. Part science, part history, part personal journey, Pollan weaves a narrative that is both highly entertaining and deeply interesting. The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is revealed in depth. Anyone who is interested in the science of the mind or the experience of psychedelics will enjoy this book. ~ Reviewed by Chris Morrow
$24.95
ISBN: 9781630514594
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Published: Chiron Publications - November 28th, 2017
This is a unique distillation of the myth of the mysterious figure of the Fisher King. Pines delves into the depths of the human condition through personal stories that blend and balance his quest to "Heal the wound" in each of us and the world itself. By fishing the depths of the ocean (and our own psyche) through history, spirituality & psychoanalysis, metaphor and even Monty Python, Pines achieves a wondrously wrought book of insight. A Knightly endeavor. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
$24.95
ISBN: 9780393249897
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2017
In a time and age when death seems more commercialized than ever and America more removed from our grief practices than ever, Doughty reminds us there are other ways. For anyone who has a tendency to say Just leave me out in the woods or talks about wishing they could go out Vikings style, Doughty discusses death customs with the ease of any other dinner conversation topic. She sets forth not to make her readers as comfortable with death as she, a mortician, is, but at the very least to convince the death-phobic to examine why they feel the way they feel about death. It is not that death is inherently off putting, but rather that we have been conditioned to approach it in such a sterile, unsentimental manner, and if treating death as a business is something we have been taught, then can we not teach ourselves how to make it into ceremony again? ~ Reviewed by Hanna Yost
