Synergetic Press was founded in 1969 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After more than forty years of fiercely independent publishing, Synergetic Press continues to bring cutting edge vanguard literature to readers. We believe that our job as publishers is to advance the most relevant and far-reaching work we can find in the fields of biosphere science, ethnobotany, psychedelics and cultures.

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  • Visions of Biospheres — John Allen & Bernd Lötsch

    Tue, May 22, 2012
    6:30 - 8:00 PM
    October Gallery, London
    Visions of Biospheres

  • Frontiers of the Future

    Tue, March 20, 2012
    5:30 - 9:00 PM
    Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe
    Join us for an evening colloquium, dinner and discussion on the latest research with pioneers of psychedelics, healing, and expansion of consciousness.

  • Perilous Passage

    Fri, November 11, 2011
    6:30pm - 8:30pm
    October Gallery
    Please join us to celebrate the second edition of Perilous Passage: the Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words, by Terry Wilson.

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  • me-and-biospheres

    Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

    By: John Allen

    Synergetic Press is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2, the definitive autobiography of one of the most luminous minds of our time. Accomplished poet, philosopher, inventor and total systems scientist, John Allen is a charming and engaging guide to how the world’s [...]

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    Birth of a Psychedelic Culture

    By: Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner

    Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, an extraordinary new book, shines a bright light on the emergence of the sixties culture and the experiments with mind-altering substances undertaken by Professors Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and then-Harvard graduate student Ralph Metzner. Based on a series of con-versations between Metzner and Ram Dass and recorded by psychiatrist and author Gary Bravo, this book describes their initial experiments at Harvard, the experiments after they were dismissed from Harvard, their journeys to India and their reflections on that transformative era.

    $29.95 Add to cart
  • far-out-far-away

    Far Out & Far Away

    By: Johnny Dolphin

    FAR OUT AND FAR AWAY A NOVEL OF EMERGENT EVOLUTION portrays humankind’s colonization of a planet called Lichen some fifteen thousand light years distance from Earth’s solar system and some fifteen thousand years into the future. Scientist-poet-author Johnny Dolphin has imagined what we humans could become were we willing to consciously participate in our own [...]

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  • perilous-passage

    Perilous Passage

    By: Terry Wilson

    This story is an account of Wilson’s lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, “He is the only man I respect.” The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin’s death in 1986. This book details the [...]

    $24.95 Add to cart
  • ThePearlcover

    Pearl Upon the Crown, by Rosé

    By:

    “…for the engaging mind … poetic utterances from an American master of the word. His subjects are the illusive ordinary. In the mind’s eye of humor, transliterated and perfumed in the beauty of language, he renders the ordinary profound.” – Godfrey Reggio, Film Auteur and Director “We mortal humans are but specks of sand in [...]

    $16.95 Add to cart
  • vernadsky

    Geochemistry & The Biosphere: Essays by Vladimir Vernadsky

    By: Vladimir Vernadsky

    Synergetic Press is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Geochemistry and The Biosphere, a meticulously edited, reader accessible, first English translation of the Russian essays by Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945). Vernadsky is the highly venerated father of several geo-based disciplines, including geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He wrote the first scientific theory about the “biosphere,” the [...]

    $49.95 Add to cart

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  • Synergetic Press acquires English rights to Albert Hofmann biography.

    May 10, 2012

    Forthcoming in English from Synergetic Press April 2013 – In Celebration of the 70th year anniversary of the discovery of LSD. Synergetic Press recently acquired the rights to publish the English version of Albert Hofmann and his LSD: An Eventful Life and a Significant Discovery, by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller. The book will be released [...]

  • From the New York Times: How psychedelic drugs can help patients face death

    May 1, 2012

    Recent news from The New York Times examining current research on psilocybin and its ability to reduce patient anxiety about facing death. The article talks about people experiencing cancer, and the way in which psychedelic experiences can calm a person’s fear about death and help them to appreciate the time they have left. Read the full article.   [...]

  • Oprah and Ram Dass

    April 29, 2012

    On April 22, Ram Dass appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) for the premier of Oprah and Ram Dass: Fierce Grace. If you missed it, don’t forget to listen to Oprah’s interview with Ram Dass airing on SiriusXM through the end of April! Also check out this blog to [...]