Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
Join author Joe Dolce and V (formerly Eve Ensler) in a provocative and personal conversation to celebrate the publication of Joe’s new book, Modern Psychedelics: The Handbook For Mindful Exploration
About the Book.
There’s a global resurgence of interest in psychedelics, but there has not been a comprehensive, reliable book that combines contemporary science, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance for using these mysterious, magical molecules. Until now.
Journalist Joe Dolce delivers this and more in MODERN PSYCHEDELICS (August 5, 2025; Black Dog & Leventhal; Paperback; $25), a meticulously researched, user-friendly guide for psychedelic users, the psychedelic-curious, and wellness enthusiasts alike. The book provides guidance on preparing for journeys, responsible use, and how to make meaning from these profound experiences while avoiding preventable problems. Along the way Dolce painlessly explains what happens in our brains on psychedelics and how the increased neuroplasticity creates neural openings for meaningful change.
MODERN PSYCHEDELICS covers benefits, dosing guidelines, and risks of all of the major psychedelics: MDMA, Magic Mushrooms, Ketamine, DMT/5-MeO-DMT, Ayahuasca, LSD, Mescaline/ Peyote/ Huachuma, and Ibogaine/Iboga. The book also brings to light:
- Promising research on ways psychedelics are being used to treat crippling illnesses that have eluded modern medicine for decades: PTSD, chronic depression, anxiety and addiction (to opioids, alcohol, tobacco, even smartphones), among them
- The widely reported but little understood benefits of microdosing such as enhanced mindfulness, improved mood and motor skills, and a greater sense of interconnection, and how to approach it skillfully
- Ways couples and close friends are using psychedelics to increase emotional intimacy and connection
- Harm reduction techniques such as engaging and vetting a guide or sitter, factoring in setting, integration, potency and purity testing
- Sidebars that answer common questions like ““Will psychedelics make me fail a drug test?” and “How To Mitigate the Nausea from Mushrooms”
- A powerful foreword and essays from experts in the field such as Julie Holland, MD, and Dr. Gul Dolen, and a decades-long ayahuasquero.
Says Dolce: “Ram Dass once said, ‘For grass you should have the equivalent of a driver’s license, and for LSD you should have the equivalent of a pilot’s license.’ This is true for all psychedelics and whiis book won’t provide the license, it will help you get the plane off the ground, into the right flight path, and safely landed. It can help reduce unexpected turbulence and alert you if you shouldn’t be flying at all.”
About the Author.
Joe Dolce is a journalist and the former editor-in-chief of Details
magazine. He is also the author of Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of
Cannabis and CEO of Joe Dolce Communications, one of the premier presentation and media
training companies in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn.
About the Moderator.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony award-winning playwright of many plays, author, and activist. Her play, The Vagina Monologues, is an Obie Award-winning, Olivier-nominated theatrical phenomenon that has been translated into 48 languages and performed in 140 countries. She is the author of numerous books, including the recently released bestseller Reckoning, heralded by the Washington Post as “gutting and gorgeous.” Other best-selling books include The Apology, translated into 20 languages, and In the Body of the World, as well as The New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body and Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in the critically acclaimed In the Body of the World. She helped create That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words, presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in collaboration with theaters across the US, as a tribute to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. V ‘s latest project, Dear Everything (formerly Wild, world premiere at The American Repertory Theater, December 2021), a musical uprising about climate change and collective action, of which she wrote the story, co-wrote the lyrics, and performed, will go on tour across the country this fall. Her film credits include The Vagina Monologues (HBO), What I Want My Words to Do to You (Executive Producer, Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, PBS), Mad Max: Fury Road (Consultant), and City of Joy documentary (Netflix). She is the founder of V-Day, the 27-year-old global activist movement that has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the planet—and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of the City of Joy, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She writes regularly for The Guardian. Her new play, THIS IS CRAZY! will premiere in October 2025 at Symphony Space with an all-star cast including Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, Marisa Tomei, and more.