Exile & Ecstasy:
Growing Up with Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground
by Madison Margolin (Hay House Publishing, Nov. 2023)
Exile and Ecstasy sets out to explore the psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Judaism. It’s a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic. It’s a path that ultimately points toward home.
Through the perspective of having grown up among “HinJews” in the Ram Dass community and in the cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York’s Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and fi nding intersectionality between the Jewish and psychedelic experience.
Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the experience with expert reportage, Madison prods at Be Here Now to find its relevance and utility in a new generation. In doing so, she looks at solutions to our lack of presence and off ers ways to integrate our psychedelic experiences in mundane life, as well as in the context of our roots and religious identities.
This book is for anyone looking to feel spiritually kindled, to make peace with where they come from, and to reconcile seemingly disparate experiences of spirituality and psychedelics with traditional religion.
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Book Tour Dates
Judaism is Psychedelic: A Workshop and Book Talk | House of More LA
September 17, 2024, 7:30 PM | Los Angeles, California
Yiddishkeit Retreats | Shavous & Shabbaton
June 15, 2024 | Morristown, New Jersey
Judaism is Psychedelic | A Conversation, Book Signing, & Sound Meditation with Madison Margolin & Yochi Ress
April 4, 2024, 8:30 pm | Pomona, New York
Psychedelic Renewal | B’Nai Or of Boston
March 17, 2024, 7:30 pm Eastern | Online
Book Release Discussion & Signing | Time & Space Limited
Jan 31, 2024, 7 pm | Hudson, New York
Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network Book Club | Live Discussion with Madison Margolin
Jan 29, 2024, 7:30 pm Eastern | Online
Dec 24-27, 2023 | Birmingham, United Kingdom
Moontower Minyan: An Evening with Author Madison Margolin
Nov 28, 2023, 7 pm | Austin, Texas
A Melave Malka Conversation with Author Madison Margolin & Rabbi Peretz Mochkin
Nov 18, 2023, 7 pm | Los Angeles
Copperfield’s Books: A Conversation with Author Madison Margolin
Nov 16, 2023, 6:30 pm Pacific | Online
Nov 12, 2023, 7 pm | NYC
Wonderland Conference
Nov 9-11, 2023 | Miami, Florida