Acid Awareness: The LSD Trip Turns 80
BY HENRIK DAHL Today, April 16, 2023, marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of LSD’s psychedelic properties. Naturally, this is a cause for celebrat...
BY HENRIK DAHL Today, April 16, 2023, marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of LSD’s psychedelic properties. Naturally, this is a cause for celebrat...
BY HENRIK DAHL In late 2012, music writer and avid record collector Patrick Lundborg returned with a follow-up to his acclaimed book Acid Archives. This time, t...
BY HENRIK DAHL With sufficient exposure, the psychedelic experience offers a crash course in what the Buddhists call sila, or right livelihood. – Patrick Lundbo...
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 aut...
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...
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...
BY STURE JOHANNESSON Written over 50 years ago, “Psychedelic Manifesto” by Swedish graphic artist Sture Johannesson (1935-2018) remains an illuminating and esse...
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 Me...
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...
BY WILLIAM LEONARD PICKARD Presented on the 75th anniversary of the discovery of LSD’s psychedelic properties, this article contains an excerpt from The Rose of...