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@Tzanjo

What are #psychedelic culture's roots? Why are they seen as transgressive? How was Hofmann’s trip entwined with a world at war? Details & pre-order: bit.ly/3JJpr6o 💕📚💕🔬💕🌵💕🚲

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Our antepenultimate journal features articles on psychedelia & nationalism in counterculture, Junger's experiences with trips, Psilocybe adventures, & the different ways perception works Get your ltd. edition copy here: ➡️ bit.ly/3WY4aJJ Cover

@GDunnArt

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Getting Higher by Julian Vayne is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelics in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic 💕📚💕🌿💕🍄💕🔬 Foreword by

@drdluke

/ Illustrations by Pete Loveday ➡️ bit.ly/3R6ZS0G

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

An excellent forthcoming book I've had the fortune of helping bring to fruition. Get the initial limited edition hardback if you can.

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New book!

Bicycle Day and other Psychedelics Essays by Alan Piper | @Tzanjo What are #psychedelic culture's roots? Why are they seen as transgressive? How was Hofmann’s trip entwined with a world at war? Details & pre-order: bit.ly/3JJpr6o

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rinnegatto

@rinnegatto

Psychedelic Tricksy

Why the word psychedelic evades simple definitions

Psychedelic Tricksy

Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays by Alan Piper

This new publication is a ltd. fine edition hardback, and includes a Foreword by

@MikeJayNet

, author of Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic 💕📚💕🌵

psychedelicpress.co.uk

In Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays, Alan Piper explores the often forgotten or ignored early histories of psychoactive drugs that helped shape psychedelia.

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Research on Psychedelics and How Mushrooms Can Help Combat Depression

"Over the last couple months, two teams found that single-dose psilocybin treatments significantly decrease depressive symptoms. Despite these recent rigorous projects, concerns about pseudoscience in psychedelics research still loom large over the field"

discovermagazine.com

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in mushrooms, can help depression and increase cognitive flexibility, but scientists say more research is still needed.

Dennis McKenna

@DennisMcKenna4

Dr Humphry Osmond who first coined the term "psychedelic" died on this day (6th of February) in 2004. "In a letter to Aldous Huxley, he wrote, “To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.” Thus, he coined the term “psychedelic”, meaning mind-manifesting."

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is a Professor of Psychopharmacology at

@UniofExeter

⠀ You can catch Celia at our conference 20-22 April 2023 at The University of Exeter. Europe’s largest conference on psychedelic research. ⠀ Tickets and more info via this link: tickettailor.com/events/breakin

The Origins and Theory Behind DMTx — Part 2

Feb 4

"Alongside being able to maintain a stable DMT concentration in the brain, this ability to dynamically control the depth of experience in real time is what sets this technology apart from ayahuasca" -

@alieninsect

alieninsect.substack.com

The science of extended-state DMT...

Ryan Strang

@TheRyanStrang

Great read.

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On #LSD - He had to pull a lever after a stimulus, and if he got it wrong, he was given a large blast of noise. ‘I found that I didn’t care at all about the noise but was fascinated by the feel of a piece of insulation tape wrapped around the lever.’ psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/lysergic-mac

Lysergic Machine Learning

The cybernetic and multidisciplinary roots of brain imaging and LSD at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol

Regardless of where you stand on the therapeutic use of #psychedelics, this is big news. Stay tuned for a more complete explanation of what this will really mean for those who might be eligible for these treatments.

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TGA Australia

@TGAgovau

From 1 July this year, medicines containing the psychedelic substances psilocybin and MDMA can be prescribed by specifically authorised psychiatrists for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Read more: tga.gov.au/news/media-rel

Harry Sumnall

@profhrs

Nitrous oxide: what to know about potential changes in the law

I spoke to The Face about my style and culture tips for 2023 (*correction - pros and cons of control under the MDA 1971 of nitrous oxide)

theface.com

Predictably, the Tories are going to try and ban laughing gas. But who is it really benefiting?

Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries of religion

Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries "The rising demand for #ayahuasca has led to hundreds of churches like this one, which advocates say are protected from prosecution by a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling."

apnews.com

HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing experience, which is how he found...

The Archaic Revival

@FatherMcKennaa

"You had no breakfast you said, can we bring him lunch?" "I couldn't eat that, what I'm hungry for is not this sort of thing, I want to feed off this feeling, this joy, which seems to be coming from everything." [University of California LSD experiments, 1955]

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Stone Age Herbalist

@Paracelsus1092

Dec 11, 2021

**The Strange Case of the Cocaine Mummies** From the 70s - 90s a number of Egyptian mummies were found to have residues and metabolites of cocaine, tobacco and cannabis. Found in their wrappings, hair and internal organs, most researchers now dismiss the findings, but let's see

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Dr Anne Katrin Schlag

@Dr_Anne_Schlag

Translational Challenges in Psychedelic Medicine | NEJM

Excellent commentary by

@RCarhartHarris

on the Translational Challenges in Psychedelic Medicine | NEJM

nejm.org

Clinical Implications of Basic Research from The New England Journal of Medicine — Translational Challenges in Psychedelic Medicine

Our latest #psychedelic journal (issue 38) is disappearing quickly, only 12 copies left 💕📚 Articles on Psilocybe trips, German author Ernst Junger's drug writings, nationalism in US & UK countercultures, and how perceptions works when tripping ➡️ bit.ly/3vZbMA7

Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In.

"Research suggests that psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity can indeed enhance specific types of learning... But claims about the transformative, brain-enhancing effects of psychedelics are, for the most part, overstated."

theatlantic.com

Reshaping your mind isn’t always a great idea.

What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself

The Daily Shroom

@TheDailyShroom

Feb 1

What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself-

news.yahoo.com

Mushroom music experiments are mesmerizing TikTok. The funky beats offer a window into the mysterious fungi kingdom as our cultural interest in mushrooms spreads.

Received today! Beautiful cover, great reading as always. ⚘⚡🌈☠🌈⚡⚘

DMT for Depression? Clinical Trial Finds Hallucinogen Significantly Reduces Symptoms

Jan 31

"U.K.-based biotech company Small Pharma is conducting the first major study of #DMT and its potential for treating major depressive disorder (MDD). "

hightimes.com

U.K.-based Small Pharma is conducting a study of DMT and its potential for treating major depressive disorder.

Jan 31

Psychedelic mushrooms may have been the event’s raison d’etre, and the drug of choice, but this was no idle gathering of dole scroungers. It was a genuine representation of a new, alternative society; one at odds with the prevailing materialistic culture

Mushroom Magic at Crazy Creek

The Welsh Psilocybin Festivals 1976-82

Jan 31

Check out our Substack newsletter for lots of #psychedelic articles and features - history, philosophy, literature, and science ✍️💕🍄 Paid subscribers also get access to journal articles and comments

the history, culture, and philosophy of psychedelics. Click to read Psychedelic Press, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Historic Vids

@historyinmemes

Housewife from the 1950s tries L$D. This is her reaction

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Roger Keen

@The_Mad_Artist

“He Was Determined to Make Himself into a Character.” David S. Willis on the Gonzo Journalism of...

“He Was Determined to Make Himself into a Character.” David S. Willis on the Gonzo Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson lithub.com/he-was-determi via

@lithub

lithub.com

David S. Wills is the guest. His new book, High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism, is out now from Beatdom Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts…

'Modes of Sentience: #Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism' by

Modes of Sentience by Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

explores the extraordinary intersection of psychedelic experience, philosophy, theories of mind & panpsychism

psychedelicpress.co.uk

ISBN: 9781916266735 PAGES: 222 | Paperback Modes of Sentience: Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism (2021) is an essay collection by philosopher of mind Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. It explores the...

"the early #Psilocybin festivals were primarily about the gathering and taking of P. semilanceata and the coming together of the British hippie traveller community"

Mushroom Magic at Crazy Creek

The Welsh Psilocybin Festivals 1976-82

Very excited that

is back in April for a full weekend of psychedelia 🥳 Who's coming along?

psychedelicpress.co.uk

The Breaking Convention Psychedelic Conference is back in 2023

Breaking Convention 2023 is a three-day event, and will be the sixth edition of Europe's largest conference on psychedelic research.

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Happy 80th Birthday to Lady Amanda Feilding of the Beckley Foundation! The strongest of supporters of the revival in psychedelic science.

"Dwyer believed the psychedelic experience was an insurrection, not into acid fairyland, but deep into our living relationship with the everyday world." ~ Robert Dickins,

The brief flourishing of a radical LSD subculture

Acid Anarchism in the UK

Founded in 2012, our journal explores the role #psychedelics play in history, philosophy, & science Join us for the home run, and subscribe to our final 2 print issues with 30% off (ships worldwide): ➡️ bit.ly/2EaZ1cX 💕📚💕🍄💕🌿💕🔬

Andrew Gallimore

@alieninsect

Jan 28

In my latest Substack post I discuss the origins, history, and possible future of the extended-state DMT technology that's come to be known as DMTx... Next week I'll talk about the science behind the technology... Enjoy and please subscribe (for free!!) alieninsect.substack.com/p/the-origins-

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Beth Bonness, Author

@BethBonness

Received my copy of Modes of Sentience by

. Can’t wait to dig in. I’m drawn in by the preface: “...this collection of essays refers to both #panpsychism & #psychedelic phenomenology—from types of beings to types of being.” #metaphysics #consciousness #spacetime

Portland Lab Gets State Approval to Test Psilocybin

"Rose City Laboratories LLC won accreditation from the state of Oregon to test #psilocybin for potency and to verify the species of mushrooms for use in the therapeutic program approved by voters in 2020"

wweek.com

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Call for Papers – deadline 31st January. Participate in the longest-running and largest psychedelic conference in Europe, here this year in Exeter: breakingconvention.co.uk/participate.ht

@breakingcon

Sex on the Fringe

@sexonthefringe

I really enjoy this book. It offers easy, fun ways to bring ceremony and ritual into a psychedelic journey. Not something that is necessary every time for every substance, but proper application can enhance and enrich an experience. -S

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Getting Higher by Julian Vayne is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelics in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic

Foreword by @drdluke / Illustrations by Pete Loveday

bit.ly/3R6ZS0G

PhilHine

@PhilH86835657

Recommended.

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Getting Higher by Julian Vayne is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelics in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic

Foreword by @drdluke / Illustrations by Pete Loveday

bit.ly/3R6ZS0G