Indigo’s Delivery: An Excerpt from The Rose of Paracelsus
BY WILLIAM LEONARD PICKARD Presented on the 75th anniversary of the discovery of LSD’s psychedelic properties, this article contains an excerpt from The R...
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We Ate the Acid: A Note on Psychedelic Imagery
BY HENRIK DAHL Symbols – symbols everywhere. All along my journey they flashed forth the apocalypse of utterly unimagined truths. – Fitz Hugh Ludlow Psychedelic...
Apolitical Pharmacology: From Altruism to Terrorism in Psychedelic Culture
BY HENRIK DAHL During the LSD counterculture era of the 1960s, psychedelics became intertwined with left-wing politics. Anti-war protests, communal living, and ...
The Beat Writers and the Psychedelic Movement
BY ROGER KEEN In their activities and writings in the late 1940s and ’50s the Beat writers – principally Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg – pr...
A Brief History of Swedish Psychedelia
BY HENRIK DAHL Whenever Sweden is discussed in books, the media or in conversation, very rarely is anything said of its psychedelic culture. Yet if one takes a ...
Survive Yourself: A Note on Drugs and Time
BY LARS BANG LARSEN The renunciation of the principle of the self through drugtaking essentially subverts bourgeois self-preservation as the foundation of socie...