Review: The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard
BY HENRIK DAHL The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments is something of a rare find when it comes to books on psychedelics. Described by its author, ...
Psychedelics in the Age of Sexual Liberation
BY HENRIK DAHL In the mid-1950s, artists and writers with a penchant for the erotic—some occultists, others belonging to the Beat contingent—got interested in p...
Midsommar: Folk Horror Trip of the Year
BY ROGER KEEN The noun ‘trip’ and the adjective ‘trippy’ have long been embedded in the language as generalised indicators of anything that is weird, far out, u...
Psychedelic Manifesto
BY STURE JOHANNESSON Written over 50 years ago, “Psychedelic Manifesto” by Swedish graphic artist Sture Johannesson (1935-2018) remains an illuminat...
Wicked Ecstasy: Altered States in The Name of the Rose
BY HENRIK DAHL Scratch the surface, and it soon becomes evident that Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose is much more than a murder mystery set in a Medieval abb...
An Introduction to Eroto-Psychedelic Art
BY HENRIK DAHL When psychedelic art first appeared as an artistic genre in the mid to late sixties, a wave of sexual liberation was sweeping the west. The era o...