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Interview with Kosmicare UK founder Karin Silenzi de Stagni
What service does Kosmicare UK provide and why is it important? Kosmicare UK is a service dedicated to helping people who are undergoing difficult drug related experiences at festivals. We set up a shelter in accordance with the principle of set and setting, essential for psychedelic care work. Our space is very calm and pleasant, … Continue reading
PsypressUK 2014 Cover Illustration Unveiled
Lady and gentleman trippers, it is with great pleasure that we can unveil the cover illustration for the next PsypressUK anthology – created by the supra-talented Jeremy Beswick Studio600art – For details on all the contributors and to pre-order your copy with a 20% discount please follow this link: http://bit.ly/19oMYB6
Help the Kosmicare UK Yurt Fund
Kosmicare UK has been working at British festivals for 5 years, always just for the love of it, and with very little resources. They have helped lots of trippers when they find themselves in the middle of their worst nightmare and helped them gain perspective and solid ground again in order for them to have the most rewarding experience. However, they are not funded and … Continue reading
Early bird discount for PsypressUK 2014 available for limited time only!
With PsypressUK 2013 Vol.2 disappearing fast, and the deadline for submissions to the next edition looming in a couple of weeks, we’ve opened up an early bird discount of a whopping 30% off on pre-orders for PsypressUK 2014: Anthology of Pharmacography – that’s just £3.50! This offer only lasts for October, whereupon the price will incrementally increase … Continue reading
Entheogens and the Development of Culture by John A. Rush [Ed.]
Originally published in 2013 ‘Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience’ is a collection of essays edited by John A. Rush. Rush has previously authored the books ‘The Mushroom in Christian Art: The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity’, ‘Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World’ … Continue reading
Peyote Dreams by Charles Duits
Originally published in France in 1967 under the title ‘L’Pays de l’éclairement’, this edition of Charles Duits classic, entitled ‘Peyote Dreams’, has been translated and reissued by Park Street Press (2013). Duits (1925-1991) was a French writer and surrealist largely known for his fantasy saga novels ‘Ptah Hotep’ and ‘Nefer’. A friend of André Breton … Continue reading
Psychedelic Press Publications Review 2013
It’s been a terrific first year for the small-scale launch of the Psychedelic Press publisher. Ostensibly launched in order to publish PsypressUK: Anthology of Pharmacography, a raft of interest from both readers and writers alike means that we’ve a very full, and very interesting line-up of publications being arranged for 2014. Stay tuned for more … Continue reading
Can Animistic Perception Change the World? An interview with Robert Tindall
Robert Tindall M.A. has been kind enough to give PsypressUK an interview. Tindall is a writer, classical guitarist, long time practitioner of Zen Buddhism, and an inveterate traveler, whose work explores the crossing of frontiers into other cultures, time depths, and states of consciousness. He is the author of two books on shamanism, “The Jaguar that Roams … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘The Psychedelic Future of the Mind’ by Thomas B. Roberts
Originally published in 2013 ‘The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values’ is written by Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D.. The text includes contributing chapters from Roger Walsh, Charles S. Grob, and Alicia L. Danforth. Roberts is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he has taught the … Continue reading
Tripoteca London 2013 – International Psychedelic Film and Arts Festival
Tripoteca 2013 London 4 October, 7:30 pm & 5 October, 8:00 p.m. @ The Horse Hospital (Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD) Tripoteca is the only international psychedelic film and arts festival that features content revolving around metaphysical matters, the expansion of consciousness and abstract aesthetics. The first edition took place in 2012 at cinema Gloria … Continue reading
