Seth Lorinczi’s “Death Trip”: A Conversation About Ancestral Trauma, Psychedelics, and Transcendence

Joining us from Portland, OR, author & musician Seth Lorinczi brings his new book _Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir_. A marriage story, a search for meaning in the wake of the Holocaust, and a struggle to release the weight of ancestral trauma, Death Trip is also funny, relatable, and in the words of bestselling author Leni Zumas: *“As gripping and propulsive as a crime novel.”*

The book 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?”

Attendees can look forward to a warm, generative, and interactive presentation on the book, our dawning understanding of ancestral trauma, and the challenges—and gifts—of exploring our own backstories.

Seth Lorinczi’s writing appears in The Guardian, DoubleBlind, Narratively, Portland Monthly_and other print anthologies and periodicals. In addition, he was a co-founder of “Judaism & The Psychedelic Renaissance,” a first-of-its-kind live event in Portland, OR.

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