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Castaneda, Carlos 1931- Depressed persons New York Biography Don Juan 1891-1973 Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience Hallucinogenic drugs Therapeutic use Manic-depressive illness Manic-depressive illness Treatment Manic-depressive persons Biography Waldman, Ayelet Health Yaqui Indians ReligionLondoño, Ernesto
Summary: "When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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Summary: Presents the author's observations on the mystical world of Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan Matus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASSummary: After many years of prescription medications failed her, a suicidal woman turns to the underground to overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine such as magic mushrooms and iboga. Adrianne's first dose of psilocybin mushrooms catapulted her into a world of healing where plant medicines are redefining our understanding of mental health and addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOSCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: "For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing Don Juan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 299 CASBreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: Michael Pollan elegantly brings together in a single narrative this unruly history, the story of the current resurgence in psychedelic research, and his own fantastic personal adventure with these substances. This is a brand new story about these incredible drugs, which today are demonstrating a remarkable usefulness in treating mental conditions such as PTSD, depression, and end-of-life anxiety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615 POLCastaneda, Carlos
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASWildman, Wesley J.
Summary: "Technology can now control the spiritual experience. This is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing our world, while exploring the safety, authenticity and ethics of this new world. We already rely on technology to manage our health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it's no surprise that we're turning to technological aids for the spiritual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 WILNuwer, Rachel Love
Summary: "The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.7 NUWRichardson, P. Mick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1986
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Summary: Blue Dreams charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Author Lauren Slater chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her analysis of each treatment, Slater asks how the drug was born, how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 SLACastaneda, Carlos
Summary: Carlos recollects more of the teachings of Don Juan, including the true importance and meaning of sorcery and magic, and the illusory nature of all realities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASElenbaas, Adam.
Contents: God's bathroom floor -- Take this cup -- Limbo in Lydia -- La purga -- Achra/arachna-phobia -- Being of one mind -- Shape shifting -- On the banks of Lake Wobegon -- Healing christian wounds -- The voice of one in the desert -- The walking woman -- Sins of the fathers -- La dieta -- Pray without ceasing -- Playing Indian -- The word becomes flesh -- Entrainment -- Virgin star of the sea -- Sins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.8 ELEPollan, Michael
Summary: "A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.7 POLWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALDMAN, AYELET WalMuraresku, Brian
Summary: "A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: "We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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Summary: "A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. Whena small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017