Richard Grossinger (born Richard Towers) (born 1944) is an American writer and founder of

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Biography

Grossinger was born and raised in New York City, attended

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, Amherst College, and the

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, earning a B.A. in English at Amherst and a Ph.D. in anthropology at Michigan.
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in Vermont in 1974. Between 1970 and 1972 he taught anthropology at the

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, Portland-Gorham, now the

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, and between 1972 and 1977 he taught interdisciplinary studies (including alchemy, Melville, Classical Greek, Jungian psychology, and ethnoastronomy) at

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. An ethnographer and self-described psychospiritual explorer as well as a writer and publisher, he has "studied" or "trained" in

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, Breema,

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". His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005.
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Bibliography

Books written by Grossinger

*''Solar Journal (Oecological Sections)'' (1970) Black Sparrow Press *''Spaces Wild & Tame'' (1971) Mudra *''The Book of the Earth and Sky'' (1971, 2 Vols) Black Sparrow Press *''Mars: A Science Fiction Vision'' (1972) Io Books

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*''Two Essays'' (Sparrow 7) (1973) Black Sparrow Press

*''The Continents'' (1973) Black Sparrow Press *''The Book of Being Born Again into the World'' (1974) North Atlantic Books *''Book of the Cranberry Islands'' (1974) Black Sparrow Press *''The Windy Passage from Nostalgia'' (1974) North Atlantic Books *''The Long Body of the Dream'' (1974) North Atlantic Books *''Martian Homecoming at the All-American Revival Church'' (1974) North Atlantic Books *''The Slag of Creation'' (1975) North Atlantic Books *''The Provinces'' (1975) North Atlantic books *''Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes'' (1976) North Atlantic Books *''Planet Medicine: From Stone-Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing'' (1980/1990) North Atlantic Books *''The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets'' (1981/1988/1992) North Atlantic Books *''Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior'' (1984) North Atlantic Books *''Embryogenesis: Species, Gender and Identity'' (1985/2000) North Atlantic Books *''Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams'' (1989) North Atlantic Books *''Homeopathy: An Introduction for Skeptics and Beginners'' (1993) North Atlantic Books *''Planet Medicine: Modalities'' (1995/2003) North Atlantic books *''New Moon'' (1996) Frog Ltd *''Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's'' (1997) Frog Ltd *''Homeopathy: The Great Riddle'' (1998) North Atlantic Books *''Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life''(2003) North Atlantic Books *''On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes'' (2005) North Atlantic Books *''Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails'' (2006) North Atlantic Books *''The New York Mets: Myth, Ethnography, Subtext'' (2007) Frog Ltd *''The Bardo of Waking Life'' (2008) North Atlantic Books *''2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration'' (2010) North Atlantic Books 9781556438783

Works edited by Grossinger

*''The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century'' (1970) *''Baseball Diamonds: Tales, Traces, Visions & Voodoo from a Native American Rite'' (1980 with Kevin Kerrane) *''Planetary Mysteries: Megaliths, Glaciers, The Face on Mars, and Aboriginal Dreams'' (1986, Revised 1993) *''The Dreamlife of Johnny Baseball'' (1987 with works by Tom Clark, Jerome Klinkowitz, Grossinger, W.P. Kinsella, Richard Russo, Nancy Willard) *''Into the Temple of Baseball'' (1990/2000 with Kevin Kerrane)

Select Io Journal editions

*''#4: Alchemy Issue.'' 1967. *''#5: Doctrine of Signatures.'' 1968. *''#6: Ethnoastronomy Issue.'' 1969. *''#8: Dreams Issue on Oneirology.'' 1971. *''#9: Mars: A Science Fiction Vision.'' 1971. *''#10: Baseball Issue.'' 1971. *''#12: Earth Geography Booklet No. 1.'' 1972. *''#13: Earth Geography Booklet No. 2.'' 1972. *''#14: Earth Geography Booklet No. 3.'' 1973. *''#15: Earth Geography Booklet No. 4.'' 1973. *''#18: Early Field Notes From the All-American Revival Church.'' 1973. *''#19: Mind/Memory/Psyche.'' 1974. *''#20: Biopoesis.'' 1974. *''#21 'Vermont: Geology and Mineral Industries, Flora, Fauna & Conditions of Sky'' (1974) *''#22: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Vol. 1: The New Found Land/North America.'' 1976. *''#23: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Volume 2: The Mediterranean.'' 1976. *''#24: Baseball, I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life'' (1977 with Kevin Kerrane; 1992 with Lisa Conrad) *''#25: Ecology and Consciousness: Traditional Wisdom on the Environment.'' 1978. *''#26: Alchemy: Pre-Egyptian Legacy, Millennial Promise'' 1979. *''#31: Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century.'' 1983/1991. *''#34: The Temple of Baseball.'' 1985. *''#37: Planetary Mysteries'' 1986. *''#46: Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior (with Lindy Hough).'' 1992

References

External links

richardgrossinger.comNorth Atlantic Books
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