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Review: DMT & My Occult Mind Lite by Dick Kahn

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Review: DMT & My Occult Mind Lite by Dick Kahn

DMT & My Occult Mind Lite by Dick Kahn is without doubt a strange and fascinating text describing mind-boggling encounters with one of the weirdest of all psychedelics.

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Review: LSD The Wonder Child by Thomas Hatsis

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Review: LSD The Wonder Child by Thomas Hatsis

LSD The Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s by Thomas Hatsis | Park Street Press | 2021 We stand far enough away from the 1950s for it to have now become historically well-revised. Taken as a whole, it is a time of mixed understandings in the anglophone world that entails readings of suburban bliss and isolated monotony, creature comforts and social anxiety, with national consensus nursing cultural malcontent. It is also regarded as a ‘golden age’ in psychopharmacology. New drug discoveries, such as meprobamate, chlorpromazine, and benzodiazepines, flourished, promising a revolution in mental health treatment,...

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Botanical Ecstasies: An Interview with Dr Matthew Clark

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Botanical Ecstasies: An Interview with Dr Matthew Clark

In this interview we discuss Dr Matthew Clark's new book Botanical Ecstasies, how he first became interested in the question of soma's identity, plant experimentation, and the role of ethnobotany in understanding history.

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Revised edition of Science Revealed by Reverend Danny Nemu out now!

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Revised edition of Science Revealed by Reverend Danny Nemu out now!

We are delighted to announce that a revised edition of Science Revealed by Reverend Danny Nemu is now available.

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Out now: Noumenautics

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Out now: Noumenautics

We are delighted to announce the publication of new book Noumenautics: Metaphysics, Meta-ethics, Psychedelics by Peter Sjöstedt-H – Available now for £9.99 from the Psychedelic Press shop and Amazon.co.uk Title: Noumenautics Author: Peter Sjöstedt-H ISBN: 978-0992808853 Price: £9.99 Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H’s Noumenautics traverses the mindscape of metaphysics, nihilism and psychedelic phenomenology. It navigates through subjects such as the sentience of cells, the constrictions of consciousness, the metaphysics of might, the magic of mushrooms, the narcotics of Nietzsche, and the neologism of neo-nihilism – the last of which may itself cause flashbacks. Tracing the fall of western morality through Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the book descends deeper still into a metaphysics...

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