Ronin Publishing
PredecessorAnd/Or Press[1]
Founded1983
FounderSebastian Orfali and Beverly Potter[1]
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBerkeley, California
DistributionPublishers Group West
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsPersonal development, Visionary alternatives, Expanded consciousness
ImprintsLeary Library
Lilly Library
Official websitehttp://www.roninpub.com

Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. The company's tagline is "Life Skills with Attitude!" In a 1996 Publishers Weekly profile, the company describes itself as a "strong player in the hemp and psychedelia market" that has little competition from major publishers.[2]

Ronin's catalog includes the Leary Library,[3][4] The Lilly Library, The Fringe Series,[5] The Entheo-Spirituality Series, and various books on psychedelia.

The company has been subpoenaed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide names and addresses for people having purchased their books on marijuana horticulture.[6][7][8] A number of their books are reprints of out-of-print works from the 1960s and 1970s — including a number of titles published by Ronin's predecessor, And/Or Press[9] — on the psychedelic experience and related subjects.

In 2006, Ronin republished the 1963 Discordian religious text Principia Discordia with altered text, altered images, and a new name, so Ronin could copyright the work. This action offended many fans of the original work,[10] whose authors, Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley, had died several years previously. Malaclypse the Younger, et el purposefully put their book, Principle Discordia into the public domain outside of copyright. Beverly Potter then created a derivative of the work, as she did with eleven Timothy Leary and three John C. Lilly works.

Titles published

Timothy Leary Library

(original date of publication; Ronin edition)
  • Start Your Own Religion (1967; 2004)
  • High Priest (1968; 1995)
  • The Politics of Ecstasy (1968; 1998)
  • Psychedelic Prayers (1972; 1997)
  • Chaos & CyberCulture (1994)[11] — Leary's last published work before his death[12]
  • Turn On Tune In Drop Out (1999) ISBN 1579510094
  • Change Your Brain (2000)
  • Politics of Self-Determination (2000)
  • Your Brain is God (2001)
  • Politics of PsychoPharmacology (2001)
  • Musings on Human Metamorphoses (2003) ISBN 1579510582
  • Evolutionary Agents (2004)
  • The Fugitive Philosopher (2007)

Other titles (selected)

  • Baker, Mary (2016). Citizen Ninja. ISBN 978-1579511913.
  • Boire, Richard (2002). Sacred Mushrooms and the Law. ISBN 978-1579510619.
  • Callenbach, Ernest (1993). Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less. ISBN 0-914171-61-5.
  • Conwill, William L. (2016). Training Black Spirit. ISBN 978-1579512224.
  • Eisner, Bruce (1994) [1989]. Ecstasy: The MDMA Story (rev. ed.). ISBN 0-914171-68-2.
  • Estren, Mark James (2012). A History of Underground Comics: 20th Anniversary Edition. ISBN 978-157951156-2.
  • Estren, Mark James (2013). Prescription Drug Abuse. ISBN 978-1579511685.
  • Gaskin, Stephen (1999). Amazing Dope Tales. ISBN 1579510108.
  • Krassner, Paul (1981). Tales of Tongue Fu. ISBN 1579510809.
  • Malaclypse the Younger; Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion. ISBN 1-57951-029-9.
  • Moraes, Francis (2003). The Little Book of Opium. ISBN 0914171836.
  • Potter, Beverly A. (1980). Overcoming Job Burnout. ISBN 978-1579510749.
  • Potter, Beverly A. (1985). The Way of the Ronin. ISBN 978-1579510510.
  • Potter, Beverly A. (1996). The Worrywart's Companion. ISBN 978-1579511753.
  • Ruck, Carl A. P. (2011). Sacred Mushrooms & the Goddess. ISBN 978-1579510305.
  • Ruck, Carl A. P. (2013). Entheogens, Myth & Human Consciousness. ISBN 978-1579511418.
  • Stafford, Peter (2003). Psychedelics. ISBN 0-914171-18-6.
  • Todd, Larry (1998) [1974]. Dr. Atomic's Marijuana Multiplier. ISBN 1579510035.

References

  1. 1 2 Stafford, Peter. Psychedelics (Ronin Publishing, May 1, 2009), p. 182.
  2. ↑ "The next generation." Publishers Weekly 18 Nov. 1996: 36. Literature Resource Center. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
  3. ↑ Mansnerus, Laura (November 26, 1995). "Conversations/Timothy Leary;At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
  4. ↑ Farmanfarmaian, Roxane. "For publishers, Leary lives on." Publishers Weekly 5 May 1997: 26. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
  5. ↑ "Beyond the Fringe." Publishers Weekly 14 Aug. 2000: 285. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
  6. ↑ "Marijuana Book Buyers Sought". Lodi News-Sentinel. Oct 29, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Feds Waiting for Marijuana Book Info". The Sunday Courier. Phoenix, United States. Nov 11, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ "DEA Subpoenas Out of Line (editorial)". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 31 October 1997. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  9. ↑ "Obituary – Sebastian Orfali," SFGate (November 6, 1997).
  10. ↑ Hogan, Ron (2006-11-06). "Free Radical Book Now Under Copyright - GalleyCat". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
  11. ↑ Yoshitake, Dawn (3 June 1996). "Leary Leaves Technical Legacy". Daily News. Archived from the original on 29 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  12. ↑ "Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
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