Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir (Audiobook)

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When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. “Death Trip” takes readers from the ayahuasca basements of Portland's psychedelic therapy underground to the streets and alleyways of Budapest during the darkest days of World War II. By turns wrenching and hilarious, it asks "can trauma be inherited" and, if so, "can psychedelics help us heal?”

When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. “Death Trip” takes readers from the ayahuasca basements of Portland's psychedelic therapy underground to the streets and alleyways of Budapest during the darkest days of World War II. By turns wrenching and hilarious, it asks "can trauma be inherited" and, if so, "can psychedelics help us heal?”

“Death Trip” was read by the author, Seth Lorinczi. Want to hear a sample first? Here you go!

What authors are saying:

“In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and passionately lived memoir of intergenerational trauma, Lorinczi leads the reader on a double journey: Into the harrowing bloodlands of 20th-century fascism and, almost as scary, the miasmic inner life of 21st-century, post-punk manhood. This is a good trip in the most profound sense.” -Jon Raymond, God & Sex; Denial; Freebird and others

“Lorinczi’s journey through MDMA therapy takes him into a labyrinth of family secrets and ancestral trauma. The story of what he finds there—and how it changes him—is as gripping and propulsive as a crime novel. I was captivated the whole way through.” -Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

“A very unique, courageous, and deeply moving book; I have personally never seen anything else like it.” -Paul Levy, Undreaming Wetiko

What readers are saying:

“Lorinczi has a deft hand at memoir—one has the sense that the narrator is doing open-heart surgery in front of you—on his own living body and soul…his experiences delving into his family's past, his own epigenetic trauma and the problems in his marriage become absolutely riveting.” -N.H.

“I could not put this book down. In the introduction, the author highlights that it would be roughly twelve hours. I will tell you: I definitely devoured it before then. Riveting, heart-wrenching, and a pillar of hope to keep showing up.” -A.G.

“It feels wrong to call a book of this style a page-turner, but it is. [It] tackles big ideas and nuanced topics with grace.” -A.T.