“The Psychedelic Chalice: Tales from the Aussie Underground” by Dale L. Carruth

"It is only the 2nd Psychedelic Renaissance for those who actually stopped using them! 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...>>

“The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us” by Mark Robert Rank

"Upending notions of predictability and rugged individualism to reveal how truly random the world is. It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. The Random Factor traverses luck from...>>

“The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant’s Reckoning from Salem to the Present” by Alice Markham-Cantor

"Past and present collide in this page-turner investigation into Salem's irrepressible question: How could this have happened? In 1692, Martha Allen Carrier was hanged in the Salem witch trials as the "Queen of Hell". Three hundred years later, her nine-times-great-granddaughter, Alice Markham-Cantor, set out to discover why Martha had died. As she chased her ancestor through the archives, graveyards, and haunted places of New England, grappling with what we owe the past, Alice discovered a shocking truth: witch hunts didn't end in Salem. Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, The Once & Future Witch Hunt does not treat Salem as a cautionary tale. It treats Salem as an instruction manual—not on how...>>

“The Witch’s Workshop: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Magical Tools” by Melissa Madara

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "From the author of The Witch's Feast, this is the first fully illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the handicrafts of witchcraft. Through over 60 craft projects, learn all the techniques you need to create your personalized magical toolkit. Empower yourself as a self-sufficient witch, and become a master of the natural arts! This in-depth guide, accompanied by step-by-step images, will show you all the craft and design skills you need to make your own, personalized and fully adaptable magical toolkit. Melissa Madara, magical expert, herbalist and witch, shares 60+ unique projects and techniques, many of which revive spells from the history of witches past. Approachable for beginners and stimulating for established practitioners, the crafts are clearly explained...>>