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...
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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...
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...
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...