Richard Grossinger is an American writer, anthropologist, and publisher of North Atlantic Books

North Atlantic Books

North Atlantic Books is a non-profit, independent publisher based in Berkeley, CA. Founded by authors Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough in Vermont, North Atlantic Books was named partly for the North Atlantic region where it began in 1974, as well as Alan Van Newkirk's Geographic Foundation of the...

 in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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Biography

Grossinger (born Richard Towers) was born and raised in New York City, attended Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City, New York, United States founded in 1887 known for its rigorous course of studies. Horace Mann is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League, educating students from all across the New York tri-state area from...

, Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

, and the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

, getting a B.A. in English at Amherst and a Ph.D. in anthropology at Michigan. With his wife (then girlfriend at Smith College) Lindy Hough, he founded the Io journal in 1964, and created North Atlantic Books in Vermont in 1974. Between 1970 and 1972 he taught anthropology at the University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

, Portland-Gorham, now the University of Southern Maine

University of Southern Maine

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, and between 1972 and 1977 he taught interdisciplinary studies (including alchemy, Melville, Classical Greek, Jungian psychology, and ethnoastronomy) at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. An ethnographer and self described psychospiritual explorer as well as a writer and publisher, he has studied or trained in homeopathic medicine, somatic theory, t'ai chi ch'uan, craniosacral therapy

Craniosacral therapy

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, qigong

Qigong

Qigong or chi kung is a practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and meditation...

, Breema

Breema

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, yoga, and psychic healing. His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005.

Books written by Grossinger

• Solar Journal (Oecological Sections) (1970) Black Sparrow Press ISBN 0876850115
• Spaces Wild & Tame (1971) Mudra ISBN 9780685228012
• The Book of the Earth and Sky (1971, 2 Vols) Black Sparrow Press ISBN 9780876850909
• Mars: A Science Fiction Vision (1972) Io Books [No ISBN]
• Two Essays (Sparrow 7) (1973) Black Sparrow Press [No ISBN]
• The Continents (1973) Black Sparrow Press ISBN 0876851626
• The Book of Being Born Again into the World (1974) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028290
• Book of the Cranberry Islands (1974) Black Sparrow Press ISBN 0876852118
• The Windy Passage from Nostalgia (1974) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028304
• The Long Body of the Dream (1974) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028282
• Martian Homecoming at the All-American Revival Church (1974) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028215
• The Slag of Creation (1975) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028320
• The Provinces (1975) North Atlantic books ISBN 0913028312
• Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes (1976) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0913028436
• Planet Medicine: From Stone-Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing (1980/1990) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556430191
• The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets (1981/1988/1992) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556431422
• Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior (1984) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0938190504
• Embryogenesis: Species, Gender and Identity (1985/2000) North Atlantic Books ISBN 0938190822
• Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams (1989) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556430515
• Homeopathy: An Introduction for Skeptics and Beginners (1993) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556431651
• Planet Medicine: Modalities (1995/2003) North Atlantic books ISBN 1556433913
• New Moon (1996) Frog Ltd ISBN 1883319447
• Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's (1997) Frog Ltd ISBN 1883319579
• Homeopathy: The Great Riddle (1998) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556432909
• Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life (2003) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556434197
• On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes (2005) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556436033
• Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails (2006) North Atlantic Books ISBN 155643619X
• The New York Mets: Myth, Ethnography, Subtext (2007) Frog Ltd ISBN 158394205X
• The Bardo of Waking Life (2008) North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556437005
• 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)
• 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.
• #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

External links

• North Atlantic Books
• The Mystery of Incarnation with Richard Grossinger, Ph.D. at intuition.org website
• The Mystery of Creation with Richard Grossinger, Ph.D. at intuition.org website