TOOLS for LIVING is an easy-to-browse "self-help field journal" that celebrates the legitimacy and richness of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and lays out various tools for coping with sensory, cognitive and emotional overload, whether in the throes of a hyper-enlivened experience, or as a result of chronic everyday anxiety. The book also stands as a strident rebuttal-in-spirit to the abrasively tribalistic, xenophobic and hierarchy-yearning values that seem to be undergoing an alarmingly widespread and virulent come-back across the globe.