Si has venido a leer esto, probablemente disfrutarás por lo menos algunos de los títulos en esta lista.
Aquí hay 20 publicaciones (no podíamos elegir solo 10) que llegaron en 2025 y que hemos leído, estamos leyendo o vamos a leer pronto. Una galería seleccionada con voces tanto nuevas como conocidas, que nos hablan de folclore, ecología, historia, etnobotánica, medicina, exploración, magia y otros de los temas que siempre nos alegra ver crecer.
Ethnopharmacologic Search For Psychoactive Drugs: 55 Years of Research
Dennis McKenna (Ed.)
«Enter the living dialogue where science meets spirit, ecology meets consciousness, and ancestral intelligence meets cutting-edge research.»
Proceedings from the ESPD55 online symposium hosted by the McKenna academy in 2022.
The Devil’s Ointment: A History of Unguents in European Magic and Witchcraft
Corinne Boyer
«According to legend, the ointment, or the instructions for its manufacture were given to the witch directly by the Devil himself in the midst of their frenzied Sabbats. Despite the persistence of these features of the witches’ ointment in lore, actual recipes for it were rare and often speculative.»
Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats
Paul Stamets
«Stamets outlines the history and cultural use of magic mushrooms in traditional rituals and ceremonies, breaks down the species’ natural geographic distribution and habitats, and shares step-by-step instructions for growing your own backyard mushroom patch.»
Enchanted Plants: A Treasury of Botanical Folklore & Magic
Varla A. Ventura
«From fairy tales to your garden, Enchanted Plants is an illustrated treasure trove of the lore and magic in the kingdom of plants. Take a walk through mystical, magical, and folkloric gardens and discover the plants and flowers that have captured our hearts and minds for centuries.»
Viridis Genii Series 10, Vol 5
Catamara Rosarium, Marcus Mccoy, Kim Schwenk (Eds.)
«Select titles from the featured presenters at the 10th Annual Viridis Genii Symposium, an Herbal conference focusing on Esoteric and Occult Herbalism and the Ethnobotany of Plant Magic.»
La Biblioteca del Botánico
Carolyn Fry, Emma Wayland
«Una obra en la que se dan cita los libros de mayor relevancia histórica sobre la ciencia botánica y su impacto en la civilización. Con ayuda de hermosas ilustraciones, se narra la evolución de la botánica a través de libros y manuscritos fundamentales.»
Traducción al Español.
Rise of the Psychonaut
A. M. Houot
«…a book about exploration. Whereas most people nowadays view psychedelics to be medicines used for therapeutic purposes, I claim that psychedelics are technologies, or can be paired with modern technologies, for the purpose of exploring the Other World.»
Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World
Elizabeth A. Campbell
«Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family—notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties—rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century.»
Polish Folk Magic: Ancestral Lore & Traditions of the West Slavs
Joanna Tarnawska
«An introductory guide into the folk beliefs, seasonal practices, living ancestral traditions, and authentic folk magic of the West Slavic peoples. With the Polish and Slavic diasporas in mind, Joanna Tarnawska fills in the gaps where sources have been previously scarce or inaccessible to those not embedded in the region.»
Poison Garden, Issue 2: Belladonna
Mila Roeder, Nikki Martin (Eds.)
Shining a spotlight on the deadly and mysterious belladonna: ecology, history, lore, cultivation, properties, art and poetry in a beautiful anthology.
Herbario de un mundo desaparecido
Clara Dies Valls
«Raíz, hoja, tallo, flor y fruto, son considerados en la actualidad materia prima o decoración. En un pasado cercano, eran partes esenciales de la vida cotidiana, con un protagonismo que borró la frontera entre el efecto demostrado y la creencia.»
Español.
The Complete Folk Herbal
Rebecca Beyer
«A definitive, beautifully illustrated guide to the rich folklore, history, and utility of wild herbs that are readily available across North America.»
Bud Finds Her Gift
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Naoko Stoop
«A beautiful and lushly illustrated tale celebrating gratitude, reciprocity, and finding our place in the natural world, ideal for sharing with the youngest readers.»
Qui ha dit Males Herbes!
Col·lectiu Eixarcolant
«Descobreix per què les males herbes no existeixen. Endinsa’t en el món de les plantes silvestres comestibles que ens envolten, aprèn a identificar-les, saber on i quan trobar-les i, també, com cuinar-les.»
Català.
Ferns: Lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants
Fay-Wei Li, Jacob S. Suissa, Laura Silburn
«Ferns embarks on an exhilarating 400-million-year journey through the world of these astounding plants. It explores how ferns first evolved, how they continuously adapted to their environment and survived every mass extinction, how they enrich human life but can also be fatal, and what their evolutionary history can tell us about our own planet.»
Wort Journal, Issues Three and Four
Various Authors
«A Journal of Radical, Rooted, Relational Herbalism.»
El médico de los pobres
Doctor Beauvillard
«Con más de un siglo de historia y millones de ejemplares vendidos, “El médico de los pobres” regresa al lector español. Su reedición en Francia ha vuelto a situarlo en lo más alto de las listas de ventas, demostrando que la sabiduría práctica y accesible que atesoran sus páginas sigue tan viva como entonces.»
Español.
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
Graham St John
«A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century’s psychedelic Renaissance man. (…) In Strange Attractor, the first biography of this enigmatic figure, Graham St John detects the signal behind the noise.»
The Way of the Eight Winds
Nigel Pennick
«With re-enchantment of life as the goal, Pennick emphasizes the Way of the Eight Winds as a spiritual path that reconnects us to Nature, brings us back to the present, and helps us see the world our ancestors venerated.»
Green Feast
Silvia & Tristan Eden
«GREEN FEAST explores the visceral, prickly, emergent magic of the vernal season. We will move through poetry, myth, science and ceremony in our uncovering of the occult virtues of the blooming Earth.»
Selección de Lenica Reggie y Joan Manel Vilaseca
