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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;The Alchemy of Culture&#8217; by Richard Rudgley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1993 ‘The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society’ by Richard Rudgley examines the cultural use of drugs from across both time and the globe. The book was the winner of the British Museum Press Prometheus Award. Rudgley has written or edited a number of books concerning drugs, including ‘Wildest Dreams: An Anthology &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/05/16/literary-review-the-alchemy-of-culture-by-richard-rudgley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2659&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Artificial Paradises&#8217; by Mike Jay [ed.]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1999 ‘Artificial Paradises’ is a collection of passages from across the far-reaching genre of drug literature and was collated and edited by Mike Jay. Jay is one Britain’s leading drug writers and his works include ‘Blue Tide’, ‘Emperors of Dreams’ and, more recently, ‘The Atmosphere of Heaven’ and ‘High Society’. The title &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/05/14/literary-review-artificial-paradises-by-mike-jay-ed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2641&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs and Denial: Society Soaked in Chemicals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clever little blighters us human beings, very pushy at getting what we want, and now with the skills of science and chemistry, employed in the pursuit of profit, we can make all manner of ‘stuff’; easily and conveniently Use of chemical ‘stuff’ has quietly crept up on us, especially during the last century or two, &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/05/09/drugs-and-denial-society-soaked-in-chemicals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2612&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Why We Take Drugs&#8217; by Tom Yardley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2012 &#8216;Why We Take Drugs: Seeking excess and communion in the modern world&#8217; by Tom Yardley is a phenomenological analysis of intoxication. The book takes into account a number of theories to explain the descriptions of drug intoxication given to the author in a series of interviews with users. Yardley is currently &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/04/10/literary-review-why-we-take-drugs-by-tom-yardley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2541&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: ‘Too Much to Dream’ by Peter Bebergal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2011 ‘Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood’ by Peter Bebergal is an autobiographical account of the author’s search for a higher spiritual meaning. Bebergal is the co-author of ‘The Faith Between Us’ and has written reviews and articles on culture, religion and science. Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/04/03/literary-review-too-much-to-dream-by-peter-bebergal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2526&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: ‘Psychedelia Britannica’ by Antonio Melechi [ed.]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1997 ‘Psychedelia Britannica’ is a collection of essays dealing with the cultural history of psychedelics in Britain, edited by Antonio Melechi. The book looks at psychedelic drugs through the context of literature, music, psychiatry and the counterculture and includes a number of prominent individuals like Ronald Sandison and Alexander Trocchi, with a &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/02/21/literary-review-psychedelia-britannica-by-antonio-melechi-ed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2373&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Drugtakers in an English Town&#8217; by Martin A. Plant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1975 ‘Drugtakers in an English Town’ by Martin A. Plant is the result of the author’s PhD thesis, prepared for what was the Department of Social Administration and Social Work, at the University of Bristol. Martin Plant (1946-2010), 29 at the time of publication, went on to become a leading expert in &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/01/26/literary-review-drugstakers-in-an-english-town-by-martin-a-plant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2329&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;On Drugs&#8217; by David Lenson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1995 ‘On Drugs’ by David Lenson is a fascinating and enlightening pharmacography on the cultural reception of drugs from the point-of-view of the user. The author had previously published works that included ‘Achilles’ Choice’ (1975) and ‘The Birth of Tragedy: A Commentary’ (1987) and was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2012/01/23/literary-review-on-drugs-by-david-lenson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2304&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;The Peyote Dance&#8217; by Antonin Artaud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in France under the title ‘Les Tarahumaras’ (1947), ‘The Peyote Dance’ by Antonin Artaud describes the author’s experiences with Peyote and the Tarahumara in Mexico, in 1936. Written over twelve years and covering Artaud’s stay at a psychiatric hospital in Rodez, the book is an important work of drug literature, so far as &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/10/12/literary-review-the-peyote-dance-by-antonin-artaud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2121&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;To Live Outside the Law&#8217; by Leaf Fielding</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/09/07/literary-review-to-live-outside-the-law-by-leaf-fielding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2011 ‘To Live Outside the Law’ by Leaf Fielding is an autobiographical account of his life leading up to, and his involvement with, the distribution of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in Britain during the 1970s. One of a number of people involved who were caught and sentenced by the infamous Operation Julie, &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/09/07/literary-review-to-live-outside-the-law-by-leaf-fielding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=2035&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Pharmako/Dynamis&#8217; by Dale Pendell</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/08/05/literary-review-pharmakodynamis-by-dale-pendell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2002 ‘Pharmako/Dynamis – Stimulating Plants, Potions &#38; Herbcrafts’ is Dale Pendell’s follow up to his excellent ‘Pharmako/Poeia’, and deals with the Excitantia and Empathogenica classes of psychoactive plants. This review is written from the 2010 updated edition, which continues the author’s stroll through the ‘poison path’, in poetic, scientific and historical fashion. &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/08/05/literary-review-pharmakodynamis-by-dale-pendell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1996&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Convention 2011: Notes from a Psychedelic Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sprawling campus of the University of Kent, in Canterbury, became host to the UK’s first psychedelic consciousness conference on the second and third of April, 2011. The campus’ Wolfe building was a thronging hive, as all the psychedelic bees gathered to share their research, their experiences and their ideas in a sweet-honey-melting-pot. At the &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/04/06/breaking-convention-2011-notes-from-a-psychedelic-conference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1588&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Aya &#8211; A Shamanic Odyssey&#8217; by Rak Razam</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/03/29/literary-review-aya-a-shamanic-odyssey-by-rak-razam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2009 ‘Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey’ by Rak Razam is a fine addition to the burgeoning genre of ayahuasca literature. Rak Razam is a journalist and editor of ‘The Journeybook: Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness’. This book charts the author’s own  journey in South America and the Amazon, as he has a &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/03/29/literary-review-aya-a-shamanic-odyssey-by-rak-razam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1576&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Freud on Coke&#8217; by David Cohen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardback edition of ‘Freud on Coke’ by David Cohen is due to be published on the 31 March 2011. Writer and filmmaker David Cohen has previously published works such as Home Alone (2010) and The Escape of Sigmund Freud (2009), and while the latter dealt with one of Freud’s so-called ‘secret histories’, this offering deals &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/03/21/literary-review-freud-on-coke-by-david-cohen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1571&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Phantastica&#8217; by Louis Lewin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Germany in 1924 ‘Phantastica’ by Louis Lewin was first published in English in 1931. This review is written from the Park Street Press edition, 1998. The text is an early attempt at a categorisation of psychoactive drugs and while,  in many respects, it is dated,  especially pharmacologically, it still remains an important &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/03/11/literary-review-phantastica-by-louis-lewin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1518&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Events Review: Drugs in Victorian Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘Drugs in Victorian Britain’ symposium was held at the Wellcome Collection, London, on the 11th and 12th of February, 2011 as part of their High Society exhibition. Friday evening was a showing of the Magic Lantern, a Victorian visual entertainment with musical accompaniment and on the Saturday it played host to an eclectic selection &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/02/18/events-review-drugs-in-victorian-britain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1486&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ayahuasca and the Vines of Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article has been written and contributed to PsypressUK by the Reverend Nemu, author of Nemu’s End: The History, Psychology, and Poetry of the Apocalypse and the Nemu&#8217;s End blog, with special thanks to the other Devilish Dan. We&#8217;d like to extend our thanks to the Reverend for his time and effort writing this article. After bubbling and brewing away for &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/02/08/ayahuasca-and-the-vines-of-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1438&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;The Atmosphere of Heaven&#8217; by Mike Jay</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/31/literary-review-the-atmosphere-of-heaven-by-mike-jay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2009 ‘The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and his Sons of Genius’ is an outstanding work of historical non-fiction by Mike Jay. His previously published drug-related works include such titles as ‘Blue Tide’ and ‘Emperors of Dreams’ and this offering is an examination of, arguably, the era in &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/31/literary-review-the-atmosphere-of-heaven-by-mike-jay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1428&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Review: &#8216;Artificial Paradises&#8217; by Charles Baudelaire</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/28/literary-review-artificial-paradises-by-charles-baudelaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in France, in 1860, under the title ‘Les Paradis Artificiels’ (Artificial Paradises); Charles Baudelaire’s classic of drug writing is a blend of personal insight, translation, and morality discourse. The edition used by this review is the 1996 Citadel Press book, translated by Stacy Diamond. The Citadel Press edition includes On Wine and Hashish &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/28/literary-review-artificial-paradises-by-charles-baudelaire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1423&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arts Review: High Society at the Wellcome Collection</title>
		<link>http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/14/arts-review-high-society-at-the-wellcome-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to their press release the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition High Society  “explores the role of mind-altering drugs in history and culture” and challenges “the perception that drugs are a disease of modern life”. Indeed, it was my impression that the exhibition did more than just challenge false historical assumption, it challenged the very notion &#8230; <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2011/01/14/arts-review-high-society-at-the-wellcome-collection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psypressuk.com&#038;blog=5709081&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=psypressuk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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