Portland people! If you’re craving a break from the holiday hoo-haw, come join me. While it’s based around writing as a means to dropping in to our deeper, untold stories, it’s not a writing workshop per se. Instead, it’s an opportunity to dig our hands in the dirt of backstory and lineage. You’ll walk away feeling grounded and in deeper touch with the mystery of our lives. I’d love to see you there!

Leapfrogging off his recently published book—Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir—Lorinczi returns to the Alembic with filmmaker Mareesa Stertz to explore some of the book’s most provocative themes: the lack of initiation in Western culture, the fading connection with our own lineage, and the power of nonlinear modes of exploration, including creative writing, dreamwork, and psychedelic journeying. If previous events are any guide, this gathering will be a provocative and liberating exploration of the facets of family and self that so often remain shrouded. Show up ready to bask in emotionally resonant storytelling—and to share what it illuminates in your own backstory.

Can trauma be inherited…and can psychedelics help us heal it? These questions form the central core of Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, by Seth Lorinczi (Spiral Path Collective, 2024). A marriage story, a search for meaning in the wake of the Holocaust, and a struggle to release the weight of ancestral trauma, Death Trip takes readers from the ayahuasca basements of Portland’s psychedelic underground to the darkest days of the Second World War.

Interested in the intersection of Judaism, psychedelics, and ancestral trauma? Join Seth Lorinczi for a very special discussion of Lorinczi’s new book Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, with a special focus on the use and experience of psychedelic therapy for counselors, guides, and others working in the field. 

Interested in the intersection of Judaism, psychedelics, and ancestral trauma? Join Portland authors Seth Lorinczi and Vanessa Veselka for a very special discussion of Lorinczi’s new book Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir. The story of a marriage, a deep dive into Portland’s psychedelic underground, and an investigation into the impact of ancestral trauma, Death Trip is most of all a journey to confront the past in order to make sense of the present.

If you’re interested in the intersection of intergenerational trauma and psychedelic therapy, this is one night you won’t want to miss. Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir is the first book in decades to address the scars of the Holocaust through psychedelic therapy.

If you’re interested in the intersection of intergenerational trauma and psychedelic therapy, this is one night you won’t want to miss. “Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir” is the first book in decades to address the scars of the Holocaust through psychedelic therapy.

Port Orford People! Come down to the beautiful Sea Wolf book store and community writing center. It’s gonna get…weird.

So thrilled to be sharing “Death Trip” with you. Seth will be joined by Paul Levy, a noted Portland author and spiritual authority who’s hosted Awaken in the Dream events for decades.