The Atmosphere of Heaven by Mike Jay
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...
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Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire
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 Discovery of Love by Malden Grange Bishop
Originally published in 1963 ‘The Discovery of Love – A Psychedelic Experience with LSD-25’ written by Malden Grange Bishop, is typical, though with its own idiosyncrasies, of the LSD psychotherapy...
Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof
‘Realms of the Human Unconscious – Observations from LSD Research’ by Stanislav Grof has recently (2010) been republished by Souvenir Press, having originally been published in 1975. Stanislav Grof spent...
High Society at the Wellcome Collection
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...
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...
The Religion of Ayahuasca by Alex Polari De Alverga
Originally published in 1999 under the title ‘Forest of Visions: Ayahuasca, Amazonian spirituality, and the Santo Daime Tradition’; this edition, published under the new title ‘The Religion of Ayahuasca –...
High Society – Drugs in Victorian Britain
A special event, called High Society – Drugs in Victorian Britain, is being put on to support the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition High Society , which is on in London...
The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God by William Braden
Originally published in 1967 ‘The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God’ by William Braden is, broadly speaking, an attempt to contextualise spiritual and religious readings of the psychedelic...
Resonance Dreaming: Nitrous Oxide, Nos and Hippie Crack
I wonder how Humphry Davy (1778-1829) felt the instant he partook of a Nitrous oxide hit? Davy was a Cornishman who, in 1799/1800, published one of English literature’s oldest works of drug writing[i] and pioneered an enlightenment-fuelled exploration of the gas.
