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...
Visionary Design: An Exposition of Book Covers in Psychedelic Literature
BY HENRIK DAHL Book covers in psychedelic literature are rarely discussed. Yet they are part of a design tradition that goes back at least to the mid 20th Centu...
Art for the Third Eye: The Visionary Drawings of Emma Kunz
BY HENRIK DAHL Over the last years, interest in esoteric art has increased greatly. Yet still relatively few are familiar with Swiss artist Emma Kunz. She herse...
Struck by White Lightning: A Correspondence with Owsley Stanley
BY HENRIK DAHL In January 2003, I was making research on The Merry Pranksters and especially their Acid Tests, and decided to get in touch with legendary counte...
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...