It has been my pleasure to have spent the last six or so years reviewing some of the UK’s best underground music and arts festivals. Through the rain, sun, wind, sleet and hail of the British summer, I’ve be able to see some of the best music the world has to offer, hear some of … Continue reading
Originally published in 2008 ‘The Jaguar that Roams the Mind: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey’ is written by Robert Tindall, with a foreword by Mark J. Plotkin. Tindall is a writer and classical guitarist and has also recently authored ‘The Shamanic Odyssey’. I was already partly acquainted with Robert Tindall’s The Jaguar that Roams the … Continue reading
PsypressUK friends Beetroot Books have just launched a crowdfunder project with the aim of creating a new platform for independent writers (and planting lots of trees!): We want to introduce ebooks from independent and mainstream publishers and promote independent writers by publishing their work directly to ebook formats commission free. For every book we sell … Continue reading
When various State governments and international bodies made d-Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and numerous other psychedelic drugs, illegal in the mid-1960s, they single-handedly ended medical research and, apparently, politicised the psychedelic experience. Now, after a 40 year hiatus, human research with psychedelic drugs has tentatively begun again. But is the psychedelic experience any less political … Continue reading
HANGING GARDENS LIVE STAGE hosted by CAT’S CRADLE & BABYLON UNDERGROUND: Orb Sound System; System 7; Astralasia; Zetan Spore; Subajah Family (feat. artists Subajah, Ijah, Iya Kneel and Barry Dread); Infinite Collective; Axis Mundi; Orangafruup; Kalichakra; Flutatious; Daft Monk; Suns of Arqa; Buck Fillington vs Melc; OOOD (live Psychedelic/Techno/Electro/Breaks); Orchid Star; Markie B (Erb & … Continue reading
Tickets are now on sale for Breaking Convention: The 2nd Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, 12-14 July 2013, The Old Royal Navel College, University of Greenwich, London. It’s going to be an amazing event – loking forward to meeting many of you there! “Three days, 111 speakers, a bunch of films, music, art, science and a … Continue reading
THURDAY 8th – SUNDAY 11th AUGUST 2013 MATTERLY ESTATE – WINCHESTER BoomTownfair.co.uk http://www.radioboomtown.co.uk/ Since BoomTown Fair’s upgrade to city status in 2012, not only has the population of the city expanded but so has the amount of mini venues throwing open their doors to get down and dirty with BoomTown’s annual Fair! Across the City’s … Continue reading
LOST THEORY FESTIVAL 2013 • 4 STAGES • 6 DAYS • ART INSTALLATIONS • PERFORMANCE • LECTURES • WORKSHOPS • HEALING GARDEN • CINEMA • FUNKTION ONE SOUND • EXPLORATION • MARKETS • CHILDREN AREA • FULL NATURE • The Lost Theory festival crew is currently cooking the 2013 edition. The new chapter of this … Continue reading
The following article has been authored and kindly contributed to PsypressUK.com by Robert Tindall. “Animism” is a concept first introduced into anthropological circles by one of its founders, Edward Tylor, as the belief in supernatural beings permeating the natural world. In Primitive Culture (1871), he wrote that animism is a perception held by “tribes very low in … Continue reading
The new psychedelic novel Erin, written by PsypressUK editor Robert Dickins, is now available as a Kindle ebook. Erin is set over a four-day, music and arts festival called the Solpsycle Gathering. Narrated in the first-person by the protagonist, Lije Baillie, it opens with Lije waking early one morning in the arms of a mysterious … Continue reading
