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What did you do for the psychedelic renaissance?
The psychedelic experience itself is not illegal, nor is talking about it or lobbying for change in legislation. By Andy Roberts.
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Berserkers and jihadis alike have used drugs to help wage war
Killing people is hard and horrible. No wonder that warriors, from berserkers to jihadis, need drugs to get in the mood. By Peter Frankopan.
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The 19th Century Doctor Who Mapped His Hallucinations
Hubert Airy’s drawings anticipated discoveries in neuroscience that were still decades in the future. By Betsy Mason and Greg Miller.
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Awake in a Nightmare
Ancient demons. Alien abductions. Sex-crazed witches. Are the terrifying hallucinations of sleep paralysis as old as sleep itself? By Karen Emslie.
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The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture.
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An Amazon Without Certainty
It’s a story as old as Alexander von Humboldt: white explorer treks into the Amazon, becomes lost and disoriented, paints face with mud, eats beetles, and has visions of galaxies and exotic reptiles, before finally achieving enlightenment—or total madness. But Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is strange enough to resist the worst of the old clichés, which is to say it resists moral certainty. By Nathaniel Rich.
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Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
Drugs researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens. By Zoe Cormier.
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Beat The Drum Slowly
Timber Timbre
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The Trip Treatment
Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin. (Feb ’15)
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What It’s Like to Have Your Severe Depression Treated With a Hallucinogenic Drug
“It’s like you’re watching your own brain.”
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Can We Explain Hallucinations?
Hallucination, what is it? Free wandering of the mind, the ability to see parallel universes, a soul’s flight through a continuum of variants, or just a brain malfunction? Is it a disease or a normal physiological reaction to a specific stimulus or set of stimuli? By Viatcheslav Wlassoff.
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I Drilled a Hole in My Own Skull to Stay High Forever
Joe Mellen is a 76-year-old former beatnik who turned on, tuned in, dropped out, and used an electric drill to make a hole in his skull. By John Doran.
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Why do people use flotation tanks?
Flotation tanks have been a part of new-age lifestyles for decades, but in the last five years the number of people using them has soared. By Tom Ireland.
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I Tried to Trip Using Only My Breath
Breathwork was born out of LSD research in the 1960s, and suggests that by hyperventilating, you can experience the same feeling as an acid trip. By Conor Creighton.
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Italy’s mysterious hallucinogenic drink
The subject of local legends, this mysterious ruby-coloured cocktail is known for its high alcohol content, obscure ingredients and hallucinogenic effects.
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Acid Tests Turn 50: Wavy Gravy, Merry Prankster Ken Babbs Look Back
Participants recall seminal psychedelic happenings where Beats, Del Close held court and seeds of Grateful Dead were sown.
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Soma, Spice and Substance D: A History of Drugs in Science Fiction
Ever since humans have been telling stories, we've been telling stories about drugs. By Brian Merchant.
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Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients
Last year, Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser received permission from his government to use acid in his practice, which he says can help people deal with anxiety and fear of death, among other things. By Kevin Franciotti.
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The Long, Strange Trip of the Chemists Behind the Legendary LSD ‘Orange Sunshine’
‘The Sunshine Makers’ is a new documentary that shares the untold story of the chemists-turned-criminals who altered the psychedelic world. By Michael Barron.
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Subterranean Psychonaut
He stood naked by the roadside with a blanket draped around his hips, feebly reaching out for the glimmering cars as they passed in the morning light. He was almost too hideous to look at... By Michael Mason, Chris Sandel and Lee Roy Chapman. (2013)
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