The Gantry Episode (1968) by June Drummond was published by Victor Gollancz. One of a host of novels published in the late 1960s, which all had LSD being pumped into a local water supply as their major premise, this particular...
Originally published in 1969 by Brockhampton Press (UK), and later reissued by White Lion (1974), The Sugar Cube Trap by Madelaine Duke is a short novel set in Brighton, East Sussex. After one of their friends becomes ‘hooked’ on acid...
Published in the United States in 1967, Lovemaster by Lambert Macy is a hippie exploitation novel set against the backdrop of LSD’s emergence into the youth culture of the 1960s. It is told from the point of view of protagonist Dr...
Following the success of the Breaking Convention conferences in 2011, 2013 and 2015, the technicolor flag of international psychedelia will be hoisted once again over the weekend of 30 June – 2 July, 2017. Breaking Convention 2017 will be held...
Every day, in hundreds of languages, millions of people ask God to “give us this day our daily bread”, which is rather more ‘day’ than is strictly necessary. Certain things are so familiar that we never think about them, and...
If history has taught us anything, it is that society likes to ban what it does not understand. You only need to look at the oppression of cannabis over the last century to see this, with laws only now beginning...
Event: Psychedelic Psychiatry – Past, Present, and Future Date: 30 January, 2017 18:30-21:00 Location: Logan Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL Tickets: Free! Psychedelics in the modern era, including MDMA and psilocybin, speak about their work and the state of psychedelic research...
We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star. Ah-ah… Ah, but are they really kings at all? The star only became “star of royal beauty bright” in church...
There’s something strangely strange about moving into an odd(ly normal) year, a feeling which started like the gentle flap of a butterfly’s wings in 2011, and is now whirring into a psychedelic storm – the return of the brilliant biennial...
“Feed your head…” An evening of discourse on all things Wonderland, with John Coulthart, Andy Roberts, Nikki Wyrd and Jake Fior (facilitator). This event marks the opening of a three day exhibition at the Horse Hospital gallery space (2-4 February, open...
