VERMONT BOOK LAUNCH

Midnight Water:
A Psychedelic Memoir

by Dr. Katherine MacLean
Green Writers Press (2023)

Donations Welcome - RSVP Required

Join psychedelic scientist and author Katherine MacLean in her home state of Vermont for a deep dive into Midnight Water, her debut memoir. We will explore the bardos of family life, death, and spiritual rebirth through reading, discussion, and live music performed by vibraphonist Chris Dingman (Psychedelic Sangha).

Bring an open mind and something you would like to release!

This is the first time Dr. MacLean's book will be available to the public and one of the very few opportunities to meet her in person and enjoy the quaint Vermont town that she now calls home.

The evening will begin at Bartleby's Books (17 W Main Street) at 6pm and conclude at White House Inn (178 Route 9 E, Wilmington, VT).

* Please be in touch if you are traveling from out of town and need information about lodging.

Live Vibraphone Music by Chris Dingman

Art created by Eileen Hall specifically for Midnight Water will be available for purchase.

Pre-order your signed copy now!

Stay tuned to Psychedelic Sanghafor news on NYC book party!

KATHERINE MACLEAN
Midnight Water: A Psychedelic Memoir by Katherine MacLean, Ph.D. is a story of grief and redemption by a groundbreaking scientist who led the way in psychedelic research. In Dr. MacLean’s first year on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, her path takes an unexpected detour following the death of her younger sister from cancer. After leaving her faculty job, MacLean travels the world —bringing medical and humanitarian aid to remote Himalayan villages and creating sanctuary spaces for psychedelic support — until she settles on an organic farm. While birthing and raising her two children, leading workshops, psychedelic retreats, and training to become an MDMA therapist, MacLean’s traumatic past and the loss of her sister continue to haunt her. When her father is dying, MacLean realizes that she must dive straight into the heart of her own labyrinth in order to forgive him. Midnight Water is not only a personal story of psychedelic healing but an inspired vision for a psychedelic future that positions women and family caregivers at the center of home-based healing, from birth through death.

CHRIS DINGMAN
Chris Dingman is a vibraphonist and composer known for his distinctive approach: sonically rich and conceptually expansive, bringing listeners on a journey to a beautiful, transcendent place. Hailed by the New York Times as a “dazzling” soloist and composer with a “fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism,” his music has earned him praise as “an extremely gifted young composer, bandleader, and recording artist.” (Jon Weber, NPR).

EILEEN HALL
Is an Ecuadorean/Scottish creative director, artist & explorer based in London. She is the Founder of Tayos, an organisation supporting the protection of endangered habitats in Ecuador as well as exploring our relationship to nature and its role in our wellbeing through art, music & science. Tayos was inspired and ignited by the work of her late father Stan Hall who sought to uncover the lost history of the Americas and the Tayos treasure legend.

In her paintings she enjoys exploring the numinous, luminous, liminal and elemental qualities of consciousness & our inner landscapes. Inspired by the wild landscapes of her home country of Ecuador, alongside her love of music and psychedelics, she creates dreamscapes and dreamseeds that combine these threads of her imagination.

PSYCHEDELIC SANGHA
https://psychedelicsangha.org

Psychedelic Sangha is not a traditional Buddhist sangha.