Ordinary Mystics: Book Launch & Conversation

Name: Ordinary Mystics: Book Launch & Conversation
Released: 2026-10-21
Duration: 2 h

<div style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-73762277-7fff-43bf-96d7-3ee5f0d3e15c"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Something has been pulling at you. Join author Matt Zemon for the launch of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Ordinary Mystics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, a reading and conversation about meeting the Sacred directly.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Right now, across America, ordinary people are gathering in living rooms, churches, and clinics, eating sacred mushrooms, and coming home changed. Researchers at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and a growing number of other institutions have documented these as among the most spiritually significant experiences of participants’ lives, ranking them alongside the birth of a child or the death of a parent.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Humans have met the Divine through sacred plants and mushrooms for millennia, yet modern America drove this history underground. Today, a minister may face prosecution for offering the very same sacrament a scientist in a white coat legally administers in a laboratory.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt will give a  talk with a few readings from the book, and leave plenty of time for conversation. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Every guest goes home with a signed paperback.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“Matt Zemon does something wondrous in this book: he makes the ineffable, effable… Ordinary Mystics is a helpful new gospel, beautifully written. Let it take you to church.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Rev. Molly Phinney Baskette, UCC minister and author</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ordinary Mystics makes a level-headed case for religious freedom, for the right of ordinary people to practice in community without being treated as criminals. The freedom to seek the Sacred directly belongs to all of us.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Rick Doblin, Founder & President, MAPS</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></span><p></p></span> <p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div> <p></p></div>PT2HNR2026-10-21USenOrdinary Mystics: Book Launch & Conversation"Ordinary Mystics: Book Launch & Conversation"

Showtimes

October 21, 6:30 pm