Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground [Paperback]

WISDOM FROM THE WOMEN HEALERS OF THE PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND

The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for their healing properties. But as Rachel Harris shows, the underground use and study of psychedelics by women dates back to the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece.

Harris interviews the modern women elders carrying on this tradition to gather their hard-won wisdom of experience. Any reader interested in inspiration, healing, and enlightenment will find here a wonder-filled narrative packed with provocative and perhaps life-changing insight.

CAPsychologistRachel Harris, PhD, has been in private practice for forty years and has published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. The author ofListening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety, she lives on an island in Maine.

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“The space of psychedelic ceremony is vast — a sacred ocean. This remarkable book is a narrative distillation of knowledge and insight informed through extensive conversation with women ceremony leaders from the psychedelic underground of contemporary Western society. It is a skillfully woven pedagogical treasure for present and future generations of healers — a sourcebook of wisdom jewels from medicine women who operate with intuitions cultivated over decades and thousands of hours of immersive practice. A true gem!”
— David E. Presti, University of California, Berkeley, author ofFoundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind OdysseyandMind Beyond Brain

“Rachel Harris has delivered a singular book, inspired by in-depth interviews with fifteen elder underground guides, women with ‘more experiencel“