Prospero – Shakespeare’s Shaman
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...
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Call for Papers: Ecopsychology and the Psychedelic Experience
The European Journal of Ecopsychology is announcing a call for papers for a special issue on “Ecopsychology and the Psychedelic Experience”. Reports abound of a unique reconnection and harmony with...
Erin by Robert Dickins
Rob Dickins is well known as a guru of psychedelia and an avid participant in the British festival scene and here, in his first novella, he blends the two ingredients...
Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England by Tanya Pollard
Originally published in 2005 ‘Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England’ is written by Tanya Pollard; review from the hardback 2008 Oxford University Press issue. This scholarly work is an...
Green Medicine by Margaret B. Kreig
Originally published in 1964 ‘Green Medicine: The Search for Plants that Heal…’ is written by Margaret B. Kreig. This review is written from the 1st UK hardback edition, 1965. The...
The Physicalism of Hallucinations
Within the realm of folk psychology, defined as ‘common sense’ by your author, humans in the western world have been shunted down a pathway of thought that seems to write off...
Intoxication by Ronald K. Siegel
Originally published in 1989 under the title ‘Intoxication: Life in the Pursuit of Artificial Paradise,’ this 2005 reissue by Park Street Press is entitled ‘Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering...
Beyond the Will of God by David Biddle
Independently and originally published in 2012, David Biddle’s ‘Beyond the Will of God’ is a novel that artfully combines elements of the popular psychedelic movement with the plot distinctions of...
Sunrise: Another World Festival & The Psychic Lysurgery
Sunrise: Another World Festival’s fantastic new site location is the beautiful ThoulstonePark, Chapmanslade, Wiltshire (near Bath). A former golf course, complete with enchanting lake, this magical new site has everything...
Pharmakon by Michael A. Rinella
Originally published in 2010 ‘Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens’ by Michael A. Rinella is a scholarly exposition of the use and understanding of the pharmakon in ancient Greek...
