The Continuous Trip: An Essay on Deadheads
BY HENRIK DAHL Subcultures within music often tend to be associated with a specific genre. Examples include Punk, Rockabilly and Black Metal. But it also happen...
Yeah, Yeah, Right! Right! Right! On the Bus with Merry Prankster Ken Babbs
BY HENRIK DAHL Ever since the Sixties, journalists and historians have tried to give an accurate description of the Merry Pranksters. Some have got it right, bu...
Getting to the Core of Swedish Neoshamanism
BY HENRIK DAHL Like many others, I learned about shamanism by reading books by authors such as Castaneda and Eliade. But after several years of reading about sh...
A Correspondence with Owsley Stanley
BY HENRIK DAHL It was January 2003 and I was making research on The Merry Pranksters and in particular the so called Acid Tests they were staging in California....
A Correspondence with Tim Scully
BY HENRIK DAHL In 1966, Tim Scully lived with and built sound equipment for the Grateful Dead. He is also known as the sidekick of Owsley “Bear” Sta...
Skip’s Story: The Beginnings of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love
BY WILLIAM “SKIP” COSTLEY Editor’s Note The following story is an account of the early days of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, an organisatio...