The Thinking Press Club
Membership in the press’s reference work and what follows it.
The Club is for readers who want the whole of the press’s reference work. The basic entry for every substance in the Materia Medica, with its lore, its legend, and its citation, is free to all. Members read the rest: the older authorities and the sources, the recipes of the compound medicines, the bibliography, and each new in-depth entry as it is written.
They also hear the press’s audiobooks and read its ebooks in their own library, and take 15% off what they buy here. Every membership helps the press bring its old texts into English.
Above membership stands Executive Membership: a lifetime standing for thinkers whose work the press counts among its own, with a direct line to the press.
Until January 1, 2027: everyone who creates an account, and confirms their email, becomes a Charter Member and keeps every perk of paid membership for good, free.
- The basic entry for every substance: its names, plate, what it is, and what it was used for
- The Symbolarium’s catalogue, with the first reading of each symbol
- The Glossary, the Timeline, the Reading Room, Shorts, the press’s feed, and search
- Esoterica, the readers’ boards, Messages with other readers, a profile, an @username, and friends, once your email is confirmed
- Reviews of the press’s books
- The press’s audiobooks and ebooks, to hear and read in your library
- The full Materia Medica: the older authorities and the sources behind every entry
- The index of the older authorities, the recipes of the compound medicines with their weights, and the searchable bibliography
- Ask the database: query every entry by kind, syndrome, constituent, authority, and standing, and download the answer as CSV, BibTeX, or RIS
- The abstract of each source beneath its citation, from the verification of 1 October 2026
- Your own shelf of entries, with private notes
- A sealed journal of dreams and reading, read beside the Symbolarium: the symbols each entry names and the typical themes it touches, set against the Montreal survey
- An entry by email each week, with its plate
- The plates to print as postcards and prints
- Every new in-depth entry as it is written
- 15% off everything bought through the site, including audiobooks to download and keep, except limited books and sets
- Early preorder access to limited books and sets
- Comments on the press’s feed, boards of your own in Esoterica, and the machine features: translation and summaries
- The longer readings of the Symbolarium
- Free shipping, as on every book sold through the site
- Cancel at any time
- Everything a paying member has, kept for good, without ever paying
- For every account created before January 1, 2027, once its email is confirmed