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Apolitical Pharmacology: From Altruism to Terrorism in Psychedelic Culture

Posted on October 12, 2017

BY HENRIK DAHL During the LSD counterculture era of the 1960s, psychedelics became intertwined with left-wing politics. Anti-war protests, communal living, and ...

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Sea of Radiance: An Interview with William Leonard Pickard

Posted on April 16, 2017

BY HENRIK DAHL The following long-form interview is the first extended Q&A with Harvard and UCLA drug policy researcher turned writer William Leonard Pickar...

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The Beat Writers and the Psychedelic Movement

Posted on March 3, 2017

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...

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A Brief History of Swedish Psychedelia

Posted on February 19, 2017

BY HENRIK DAHL Whenever Sweden is discussed in books, the media or in conversation, very rarely is anything said of its psychedelic culture. Yet if one takes a ...

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Survive Yourself: A Note on Drugs and Time

Posted on February 9, 2017

BY LARS BANG LARSEN The renunciation of the principle of the self through drugtaking essentially subverts bourgeois self-preservation as the foundation of socie...

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Visionary Design: An Exposition of Book Covers in Psychedelic Literature

Posted on February 2, 2017

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...

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Art for the Third Eye: The Visionary Drawings of Emma Kunz

Posted on January 23, 2013

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...

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Struck by White Lightning: Owsley on Acid

Posted on April 5, 2012

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...

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The Continuous Trip: An Essay on Deadheads

Posted on January 18, 2012

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...

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Yeah, Yeah, Right! Right! Right! On the Bus with Merry Prankster Ken Babbs

Posted on November 10, 2009

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...

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  • Review: Psychedelia by Patrick Lundborg
  • Pantheistic Insights: Vegetarianism in Psychedelic Culture
  • Review: The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard
  • Psychedelics in the Age of Sexual Liberation
  • Midsommar: Folk Horror Trip of the Year
  • Psychedelic Manifesto
  • Wicked Ecstasy: Altered States in The Name of the Rose
  • An Introduction to Eroto-Psychedelic Art
  • Indigo’s Delivery: An Excerpt from The Rose of Paracelsus
  • We Ate the Acid: A Note on Psychedelic Imagery
  • Apolitical Pharmacology: From Altruism to Terrorism in Psychedelic Culture
  • Sea of Radiance: An Interview with William Leonard Pickard
  • The Beat Writers and the Psychedelic Movement
  • A Brief History of Swedish Psychedelia
  • Survive Yourself: A Note on Drugs and Time
  • Visionary Design: An Exposition of Book Covers in Psychedelic Literature
  • Art for the Third Eye: The Visionary Drawings of Emma Kunz
  • Struck by White Lightning: Owsley on Acid
  • The Continuous Trip: An Essay on Deadheads
  • Yeah, Yeah, Right! Right! Right! On the Bus with Merry Prankster Ken Babbs
  • Getting to the Core of Swedish Neoshamanism
  • “Wolfe is Useless”: Owsley Stanley on the Merry Pranksters and the Acid Tests
  • Tim Scully on the Brotherhood and Making LSD with Bear
  • Skip’s Story: The Beginnings of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

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