An independent publisher of transformational nonfiction.

Books of substance, built to last, that treat readers as their own final authority.

Founded 2026 ● Chapel Hill, North Carolina

About the press

Fire Horse Press is founded on a simple conviction: we live in one reality, and we come to know it in more than one way.
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Across our books, we explore the meeting places of scientific inquiry and contemplative understanding. Integration is our work: revealing relationships that go unseen when things are studied separately, then bringing that understanding into the life the reader is already living.
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Our books are practical by design, meant to be used, not merely understood.
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The press takes its name from the year of its founding: 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse, a once-in-sixty-years emblem of untamed spirit and transformation.

Catalog

MIND CONTROL​
A Practical Framework for Awakening and Conscious Creation
Phillip Van Winkle ● Published September 22, 2026

You’ve gathered the pieces. Now see how they fit. An insight into your childhood. A practice for observing your thoughts. A name for the pattern you keep repeating. MIND CONTROL connects them: the stories you inherited, the identity they shaped, the patterns you repeat, and the awareness from which you can begin choosing differently. One practical framework for understanding how you became who you are, and creating your life on purpose.

​​About the book →​​

The series. MIND CONTROL was written as the foundation of a seven-book series. It lays out the whole framework. Each of the six books that follow takes it into one territory of human experience, and into the way you live, day to day.

The Waypoint, below, is the first. Four more are planned, one for each of the Four Circles at the heart of the framework: the brain and body, the conditioned mind, Divine Awareness, and Source.

The seventh turns to organizational leadership. Self-leadership is one of the threads that run through MIND CONTROL, and no one leads others well without first learning to lead themselves. So the series begins with leading yourself and ends with leading others.

Coming June 2027

THE WAYPOINT​
Psychedelics and the Journey of Integration
Rachelle Van Winkle, DNP, and Phillip Van Winkle ● June 2027

Psychedelics aren’t for everyone. For those whose journey takes that route, they can open the curtain on the mind in ways little else can. They are not the destination; they are a waypoint. The Waypoint is about what comes before, during and after the experience, for the person making the journey and for those who tend to them. It reads what the experience reveals through clinical understanding and the MIND CONTROL framework, and stays with the question that outlasts the medicine: what relationship are you building with the life you return to?
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The medicine ends. The work doesn’t.

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