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Dr. Ben Sessa lecture: MDMA – Could it have been designed with psychotherapy in mind?
Tuesday, 28th February, 2012 October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL Please RSVP on Facebook (afraid so) so that they can anticipate numbers – Please pay on the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/209100309180578/ Entry £7 / £5 Concessions Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start – Wine available. . Dr. Ben Sessa will discuss: Psychedelic drugs in medicine – … Continue reading
Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness lecture series presents: Mike Jay’s High society – Mind-altering drugs in history and culture
Tuesday, 31st January, 2012 October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL Please RSVP on Facebook(afraid so) so that we can anticipate numbers – Please pay on the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/211229202301171/ Entry £7 /£5 Concessions,Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start – Wine available Drawing on themes and images from the exhibition he curated at the … Continue reading
Bard Medicine: Sacred Elixirs and Tantric Mantras from the Pen of the Dragon
The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lectures series presents: Bard Medicine – Sacred Elixirs and Tantric Mantras from the Pen of the Dragon Peter Moore (aka Pen Dragon) is a performance poet, pirate prophet and heretic healer who fuses myth, magic and slyly self-mocking tales of mystical misadventure into a wryly romantic, psychotropic-semantic cocktail so salty it should come with … Continue reading
News: Tickets on sale for Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness
Tickets for Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness are now on sale and can be bought from the conference’s website. Earlybird tickets are priced at £40 for students & concessions and £60 for general admission. Breaking Convention – A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness is being held at the University of Kent in Canterbury, … Continue reading
Resonance Dreaming: Nitrous Oxide, Nos and Hippie Crack
At one point there gathered an intensity. Midday on Saturday and the music festival was pulsing in the throng of its three-day ecstasy. After a wonky Friday night, Cole and myself had taken shelter from the glaring, hot sun and were sitting in a no-shoes, hookah and chai café. Colourful drapes were hung across the … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘A Drug-Taker’s Notes’ by Richard Heron Ward
Originally published in Britain, in 1957, ‘A Drug-Taker’s Notes’ by Richard Heron Ward describes 6 LSD sessions the author undertook between 1954-55, under the supervision of a medical psychiatrist only identified as Dr. X. The doctor was studying the effects both on herself and mentally ill patients, which corresponds to what LSD manufacturers Sandoz deemed … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘Archaeologies of Consciousness – Essays in Experimental Prehistory’ by Gyrus
This article, written by David Luke, is reproduced here with thanks to Berg Publishers for granting permission. Copyright is still retained. This article originally appeared as: Luke, D. P. (2008). Archaeologies of consciousness: Essays in experimental prehistory, by Gyrus. [book review]. Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness & Culture, 1 (2), 261-262. Archaeologies … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘The Joyous Cosmology’ By Alan Watts
‘The Joyous Cosmology – Adventures in Chemical Consciousness’, by British born philosopher Alan Watts, was originally published in 1962. Watts takes a variety of his psychedelic drug experiences and creates a single stream of consciousness that works together as if a single trip. The style is engaging, thoughtful and well constructed and retains much of his … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘Junky’ by William S. Burroughs
Junky, published in 1952, is one of the first examples of contemporary psychedelic literature. Not only does it have the structural theme of ‘travel’ throughout, in keeping with the Beat Generation feel, Junky is also laced with many concepts that came to categorize the coming counter-culture in psy-lit, and beyond. In doing so it … Continue reading
