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...
Category: Articles
Review: Psychedelia by Patrick Lundborg
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...
Pantheistic Insights: Vegetarianism in Psychedelic Culture
BY HENRIK DAHL With sufficient exposure, the psychedelic experience offers a crash course in what the Buddhists call sila, or right livelihood. – Patrick Lundbo...
Review: The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard
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...
Psychedelics in the Age of Sexual Liberation
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...
Midsommar: Folk Horror Trip of the Year
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...
Psychedelic Manifesto
BY STURE JOHANNESSON Written over 50 years ago, “Psychedelic Manifesto” by Swedish graphic artist Sture Johannesson (1935-2018) remains an illuminating and esse...
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 Me...
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 Rose of...