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Richard Grossinger (b. 1944) is an American writer, anthropologist, and publisher of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.

Biography

Grossinger (born Richard Towers) was born and raised in New York City, attended Horace Mann School, Amherst College, and 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, Portland-Gorham, now the University of Southern Maine, 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, chi gung, Breema, yoga, and psychic healing. His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005.

Bibliography

Books written by Grossinger

  • Solar Journal (Oecological Sections) (1970)
  • Spaces Wild & Tame (1971)
  • The Book of the Earth and Sky (1971, 2 Vols)
  • Mars: A Science Fiction Vision (1972)
  • Two Essays (Sparrow 7) (1973)
  • The Continents (1973)
  • The Book of Being Born Again into the World (1974)
  • Book of the Cranberry Islands (1974)
  • The Windy Passage from Nostalgia (1974)
  • The Long Body of the Dream (1974)
  • Martian Homecoming at the All-American Revival Church (1974)
  • The Slag of Creation (1975)
  • The Provinces (1975)
  • Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes (1976)
  • Planet Medicine: From Stone-Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing (1980/1990)
  • The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets (1981/1988/1992)
  • Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior (1984)
  • Embryogenesis: Species, Gender and Identity (1985/2000)
  • Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams (1989)
  • Planet Medicine: Origins (1990/2001)
  • Homeopathy: An Introduction for Skeptics and Beginners (1993)
  • Planet Medicine: Modalities (1995/2003)
  • New Moon (1996)
  • Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's (1997)
  • Homeopathy: The Great Riddle (1998)
  • Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life (2003)
  • On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes (2005)
  • Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails (2006)
  • The New York Mets: Myth, Ethnography, Subtext (2007)
  • The Bardo of Waking Life (2008)
  • 2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration (2010)

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

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