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