Richard Grossinger

CranioSacral Therapy
What It Is, How It Works
Contribution by John E. Upledger, Donald Ash, Richard Grossinger and Don Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $14.95

With the troubling side effects and surging costs of medications and surgery, Americans are increasingly turning to CranioSacral Therapy as an effective, drug-free, and non-invasive therapy. A gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the function of the craniosacral system — the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the... Read more >

Somato Emotional Release
Deciphering the Language of Life
Written by John E. Upledger
Foreword by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2002
Price: $20.00

Developed by the author, SomatoEmotional Release is a technique for bringing psychotherapeutic elements into CranioSacral therapy. It helps rid the mind and body of the residual effects of trauma by anatomically freeing the central channel of the body. John E. Upledger presents the history, theory, and practice of this subtle form... Read more >

The Bardo of Waking Life

Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 552 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $15.95

An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history... Read more >

The New York Mets
Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
Written by Richard Grossinger
Foreword by Mike Vacarro

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.95

No baseball team has captured America’s imagination like the Mets. Alternately the “Lovable Losers” and the “Miracle Mets,” New York’s other team offers fascinating fodder for writer Richard Grossinger in this thoughtful collection. The New York Mets is a series of probing essays on the best and most interesting years of... Read more >

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
How the Universe Makes Life
Written by Richard Grossinger
Preface by Harold Dowse
Foreword by John Upledger

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2003
Price: $24.95

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought up by Embryogenesis, including: the relationship between thermodynamics/entropy and the emergence of life; a speculative set of embryogenic principles for all... Read more >

Migraine Auras
When the Visual World Fails
Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2006
Price: $16.95

Migraine headaches are familiar and generally treatable ailments. Less understood are migraine auras or scotoma, visual distortions—sometimes accompanied by headache and sometimes not—that make it difficult, sometimes impossible, to see clearly. Migraine auras can be frightening, disorienting, even incapacitating. Richard Grossinger, who has suffered from them himself, here presents a helpful... Read more >

Embryogenesis
Species, Gender, and Identity
Written by Richard Grossinger
Illustrated by Phoebe Gloeckner and Jillian O'Malley

Format: Hardcover, 952 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2000
Price: $75.00

Embryogenesis is an unusual book in that it brings together a highly illustrated, practical embryology book in simple language, perfect for health practitioners, with a fascinating read on the history and philosophy of biological science. It discusses the various stages of embryonic development (meiosis, fertilization, blastula development, and gastrulation, and then... Read more >

Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Modalities
Written by Richard Grossinger
Preface by Peter Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 730 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $30.00

Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative... Read more >

Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Origins
Written by Richard Grossinger
Preface by John Upledger

Format: Trade Paperback, 664 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2001
Price: $35.00

Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative... Read more >

On the Integration of Nature
Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes
Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2005
Price: $15.95

This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures of science, religion, and all other forms of ideology. Author Richard Grossinger dazzlingly blends narrative memoir, short science fiction... Read more >

Ecology and Consciousness
Traditional Wisdom on the Environment Second Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1993
Price: $12.95

Rather than describe aspects of our global dilemma and pose interpretations and solutions, Ecology and Consciousness brings together a medley of voices crying out in Earth song. Some of them are sonorous, some of them shrill, some of them fully, some of them outrageous--all of them our paradox of consciousness in... Read more >

Out of Babylon

Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 600 pages
On Sale: October 30, 1997
Price: $18.95

Richard Grossinger, an anthropologist by training, a cultural rebel by inclination, and supposed heir apparent to the great, eponymous Catskill resort by birth, presents an intense, personal story in the form of a "nonfiction novel." Grossinger recounts old dreams, lists every college course in which he enrolled, and enumerates the courses... Read more >

Planetary Mysteries
Megaliths, Glaciers, the Face on Mars and Aboriginal Dreamtime
Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1993
Price: $12.95

Planetary Mysteries is a compilation of essays, fiction and non-fiction, meant to explore megaliths, glaciers, the face on Mars, and Aboriginal dreamtime, among other things. Contributors include: Richard Hoagland, Jeff Greenwald, Richard Grossinger, Normandi Ellis, John Brandi, Rob Brezny (the author of Pronoia), Gary David, and Richard Silberg. Read more >

New Moon

Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Hardcover, 598 pages
On Sale: May 15, 1996
Price: $25.00

The grandson of famed Catskill resort owner Jennie Grossinger, Richard Grossinger grew up in a Manhattan apartment with his mother, stepfather, brother and sister and attended private schools. In this affecting, gracefully written memoir, Grossinger details his unhappy childhood, which was punctuated by episodes of panic. His mother so resented his... Read more >

Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
Fifth Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lisa Conrad

Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1993
Price: $12.95

This book includes Donald Hall, Jack Kerouac, Robert Kelly, Bill Lee, Paul Metcalf, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, and Bernadette Mayer. The quality of the work in this anthology varies widely, but the sheer unlikeliness of a volume of neo-beat baseball poetry and new-age-inflected essays cannot help but inspire generosity. The photography... Read more >

Homeopathy: The Great Riddle

Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 14, 1998
Price: $14.95

This is a wonderfully succinct book which sets forth the history, essence, and methodology of homeopathy. The book is well organized in 5 major sections. There is a very thorough overview of the precepts and tenets of the practice, its historical origins, a detailed and well-covered biography of Samuel Hahnemann and... Read more >

Waiting for the Martian Express
Cosmic Visitors, Warrior Spirits, Luminous Dreams
Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 210 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1993
Price: $9.95

Explores a full range of New Age phenomena including channels, past-lives, shamans, healing, and much more. Grossinger distinguishes New Age marketing from real phenomena, and looks closely at both scientific and fundamentalist debunkers of New Age. Read more >

Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior
Faces of Mars and Shiva in the Crisis of Human Survival
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough

Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: April 16, 1993
Price: $12.95

The preface to this anthology begins, “Nuclear war sits as a kind of zen riddle in the heart of modern civilization.” The goal of Nuclear Strategy is to publish essays, poems, a play, and a round-table discussion in an attempt to go beyond the current fixation of arms-control agendas emphasizing détente... Read more >

The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century

Edited by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: January 3, 1995
Price: $14.95

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2013
Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration
Written by Richard Grossinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $15.95

For the Earth to move to the next vibration, says Richard Grossinger, consciousness must change in profound ways, and these involve core elements of humanity: evil, grief, bliss, and compassion. 2013 locates these elements in often unlikely places and seeks their nature and capacity for change. With playfulness and precision, 2013... Read more >