Shambhala Publications

Yes, so the book was released July 21 so it's out there in the world, you can find it anywhere Amazon bookstores.

right from the publisher, which is Shambhala Publications.

And I will be actually starting a live virtual book club starting in October that's going to go on monthly, different times and days, so people from around the world can join.

And that can be a drop-in.

The book is available every major mass retailer outlet.

So Psychedelic Therapy, it's an imprint of Shambhala Publications, and it's available Amazon, it's available Barnes & Noble, all major retailers.

And we're going to be adding all those links in the show notes.

So thank you both of you for taking the time to share your expertise, your perspective, and this new form of therapy that I think a lot of people may not have been familiar with, but after listening to both of you are now more familiar with.

And then the pandemic hit and I didn't have a whole lot else to do.

So I just, in sort of, I don't know, eight or nine months, you know, I knocked out this book, which was supposed to be very introductory and Well, it was too long to go into this series that Shambhala Publications was putting out.

But they liked the book.

They published the book.

You know, so I'm, you know, wandering around and there's this little tiny, you know, Judaism section.

And I said, "Oh, that might be interesting." Yeah, you know, so yeah, there was a book, The Kabbalah of Envy, yeah, by Shambhala Press actually.

It was, you know, uh, you know, published by them.

You know, they're a, you know, venerable, you know, Buddhist publishing house.

Either way, each guest has somehow found a way to weave the threads of their lives into a beautiful tapestry that exemplifies this approach to life.

Today's guest is an exemplar of that very approach, as David is going to be joined by the founder of Shambhala Publications, Sam Bercholz.

For those of you not in the know, Shambhala Publications is one of the most influential spiritual publishing companies here in the United States.

It began in 1969 as a small counterculture bookstore, and has grown into one of the largest and most prominent independent publishers of Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, and mindfulness in the world.

They have over 2,000 titles that include prominent spiritual teachers such as Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

And, uh, w- we studied, we drank from the same Dharma fountain, Trungpa Rinpoche, as a root teacher.

Uh, we were there in the early days of, uh, all that taking shape.

And, um, you had the unusual karma, which people might know or not know of, having created a publishing company, Shambhala Publications or Publishing.

In each episode, we explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality with the world's leading ecological thinkers, writers, poets, and storytellers through in-depth conversations, author-narrated essays, poetry, and nature connection practices.

Earlier this summer, we held a special online event in collaboration with Shambhala Publications that brought authors and diverse faith practitioners together around the theme of spiritual ecology.

It in part drew on the ideas at the heart of my new book, Remembering Earth, to examine the many ways spiritual ecology is present in the bones of ancient faith traditions, and also how it can become more fully embodied with the help of evolving faith practices today.

I was joined in conversation by writer, forest ecologist, and former Episcopal priest, Stephen Blackmer, who also founded Church of the Woods.

Now, you, uh, where can people get the book?

So yeah, it is available, uh, August 25th, uh, published by Shambhala Books and Penguin Random House.

Uh, so it will be available pretty much everywhere, you know, like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, e- you know, at pretty much every platform that sells books.

Well, I, I'll be looking for it at Costco.

Yeah

And actually, it still hangs in the, uh, offices of Shambhala Publications in-

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