Synergetic Press was founded in 1969 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After 39 years of publishing, we are still fiercely independent. 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, cultures. We are very pleased to announce our forthcoming title: John Allen’s ME & THE BIOSPHERES: A MEMOIR BY THE INVENTOR OF BIOSPHERE 2, the definitive autobiography of one of the most luminous minds of our time.

Planned for this spring is BIRTH OF PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE, an in-depth examination of the legacy of the 1960's by the two surviving facilitators of the mind-altering Harvard Experiments that touched off a revolution in psychology, Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass. We publish works that are timeless, and we keep them in print. Since our inception, one of our primary concerns has been the relationship between people and the environment.

Our backlist includes books such classics in ethnobotany as VINE OF THE SOUL: MEDICINE MEN, THEIR PLANTS AND RITUALS IN THE COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA by Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf; WHERE THE GODS REIGN: PLANTS AND PEOPLES OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON, also by Schultes; and the AYAHUASCA READER: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMAZON"S SACRED VINE, edited by Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White.

There are often subtle ties between our titles. For instance, Richard Evans Schultes mentored Timothy Leary, Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner at Harvard. The classic film documentary on Ornette Coleman, ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA, directed by Shirley Clarke and produced by Synergetic Press’ founder, Kathelin Hoffman Gray, features contributions from some of our authors, most notably William S. Burroughs (UNCOMMON QUOTES, Audio Book) and John Allen, who also writes fiction and poetry under his nom de plume, Johnny Dolphin.

 The creation of Biosphere 2 by John Allen was a continuation of the pioneering work of seminal Russo-Ukrainian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, whose essays on GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE BIOSPHERE we released in their first authoritative English translation last year.

 There is an active synergy between our selections: our writers inspire one another and inspire their readers.  In an age of apathy and materialism, our authors challenge readers to want more for themselves and their planet and to rise to their fullest potential as mindful beings.