Consciousness, Waking & Dying

A detailed history of the blossoming of psychedelic research in the 1950s

Explores the different groups--from research labs to the military--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline

Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood

The most life-affirming book ever written about death. Sandi Toksvig
One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read. Anita Anand

Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it welcome.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos

Shamanic energy teacher Karen Johnson writes with both hope and compassion in a book described by bestselling author and noted shamanic teacher Alberto Villoldo as "The owner's manual for embracing grief with courage and transforming it into wisdom, to discover the ultimate and lasting gift of joy."

An exploration of the history, shamanic use, psychoactive effects, current scientific studies, and therapeutic potential of ayahuasca

Examines how ayahuasca affects the brain from a neuroscientific perspective and how its effects on consciousness relate to ancient esoteric texts

In this book that offers relief to anyone moving though intense grief and loss, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, comforting words of wisdom on how to transform our suffering in the face of death.

One accident. Two victims. Three deaths. A moving account of grief and its aftermath.

In the fall of 2009, Catherine Gourdier and the other members of her family are happily gathered at a surprise fortieth birthday party for her youngest sister, Julie, when the unthinkable happens.