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2. Mim , Eichler Rivas

Go Where There Is No Path

For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world?from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup, Scholly, has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity. Christopher Gray grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top college?except for the financial means. Desperate, Gray headed off the beaten path, applying for every scholarship he could find. His hustle resulted in awards of 1.3 million dollars and inspired him to create a startup called Scholly, an app that matches college applicants with millions of dollars in scholarships that often go unclaimed. As a senior at Drexel University, Gray appeared on Shark Tank and, in the most heated fight in the show's history, was challenged on whether his app was a charity or a profitable business. Both, he insisted, proposing a new paradigm for social entrepreneurship and netting deals from Lori Greiner and Daymond John. At the time Scholly had 90,000 users. Today the app has 4 million subscribers who have won scholarships totaling more than $100 million. Meanwhile, Gray has emerged as a tech startup superhero now tackling the crisis of student debt with innovative, unrivaled strategies. Gray's story is proof that when you create opportunities for others, you enrich the marketplace for yourself too. He shows us, we can carve out new paths to better days and leave trails for others.

1. Christopher , Gray
2. Mim , Eichler Rivas

Go Where There Is No Path

For all who dare to go off thebeaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transformingyour life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whosedorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and accessunprecedented opportunity.  Gray, theson of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deeppoverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualificationfor attending a top college—except for the financial means. Desperate, Grayheaded off the beaten path, searching online to apply for every scholarship hecould find.  His hustle resulted inawards of 1.3 million dollars and became his call to action to help otherstudents win their own “schollys.” It inspired him to start up Scholly, an appthat matches college applicants with millions of dollars in outsidescholarships that often go unclaimed. When hewas a senior at Drexel University, he appeared on Shark Tank as CEO ofScholly. In the most heatedfight in the show’s history, the sharks challenged Gray as to whether his appwas a charity or a profitable business.  Both, he insisted, proposinga new paradigm for social entrepreneurship and netting deals from Lori Grenierand Daymond John.      At thetime Scholly’s subscriber base was 90,000 users. Today the app has 4 millionsubscribers who have won scholarships totaling more than $100 million.Meanwhile, Gray—without help from the mostly all-white boy’s club of SiliconValley—has emerged as a tech startup superhero now tackling the crisis ofstudent debt with innovative, unrivaled strategies. Gray’s premise is that when youlead with the good—confronting issues such as poverty and racism—the money willfollow.  His story is proof that when youdevelop a mindset for success, you turn disadvantages into gold. And when youcreate opportunities for others, you enrich the marketplace for yourselftoo.   Gray shows us, we can carve outnew paths to better days and leave trails for others. 

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Los Diarios Del Acido (the Acid Diaries)

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The Acid Diaries

In The Acid Diaries, Gray details his experimentation with LSD over a period of three years and shares the startling realization that his visions were weaving an ongoing story from trip to trip, revealing an underlying reality of personal and spiritual truths. Following the theories of Stanislav Grof and offering quotes from others’ experiences that parallel his own--including those of Aldous Huxley, Albert Hofmann, and Gordon Wasson--he shows that trips progress through three stages: the first dealing with personal issues and pre-birth consciousness; the second with ego-loss, often with supernatural overtones; and the third with sacred, spiritual, and even apocalyptic themes. Pairing his experiences with an exploration of psychedelic use throughout history, including the ergot-spawned mass hallucinations that were common through the Middle Ages and the early use of LSD for therapeutic purposes, Gray offers readers a greater understanding and appreciation for the potential value of LSD not merely for transpersonal growth but also for spiritual development.