Apolitical Pharmacology: From Altruism to Terrorism in Psychedelic Culture
BY HENRIK DAHL During the LSD counterculture era of the 1960s, psychedelics became intertwined with left-wing politics. Anti-war protests, communal living, and ...
Sea of Radiance: An Interview with William Leonard Pickard
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...
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...
A Brief History of Swedish Psychedelia
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 ...
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: Owsley on Acid
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...