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The most detailed account yet of the Liberty Capโs emergence - highly recommended ๐
11.12.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In the middle of a wild wkend at Entheogenesis Australis' Garden States. Missing way too much but what I have caught has been deeply engaging.
Below daytime is Dave Nickles dropping bombs on the local community and night time is @mikejay.bsky.social going deep on mescaline art.
Still a few tickets left for this event with the amazing @mikejay.bsky.social tonight 6-7.30 at @kingsioppn.bsky.social
All welcome as Mike discusses his new book on the discovery of N2O & the birth of psychedelic science๐๐
Cover for a book called "The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond" by Antonio Melechi. The cover features a floating black bowler hat above a cloudy sky backdrop.
From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
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#OnThisDay in 1977 the artist William Kurelek died. His 1953 autobiographical painting, The Maze, painted during his time as a patient at the Maudsley Hospital, continues to captivate visitors to Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Discover this intriguing artwork here: bit.ly/MOTMMaze
02.11.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Listen to a series of recordings made by the ethnographer James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself โ publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...
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The tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars confined to Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the โAir Loomโ โ a terrifying machine which was brainwashing politicians: publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
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"Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Mind" by Mike Jay
"โฆMike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism." Mike is always a great read!
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17.09.2025 08:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...
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If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
07.09.2025 09:36 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โOne veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher Stephan Beyer why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they werenโt sick.โ
@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thrilled to see this mammoth review of "Shamanism" in
@lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ever dreamt of being chased, falling, or flying? Our new exhibition, 'Between Sleeping and Waking', will bring together 200 years of artwork to show you are not alone!
Opening this Thursday, 14 August *เฉโฉโงโห bit.ly/MOTM_dreams
Image: Let There Be Light, Edgar Farrar, 1943.
Out in paperback in the US today
mikejay.net/books/free-r...
Thereโs been a group on the cliffs at Gurnards Head for a while, havenโt been down there yet this year, others may have more up to date info
31.07.2025 07:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Astonishing, and seemed to come from nowhere - any antecedents I missed, or anything similar out there? What are the creators doing next?
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On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
Talking FREE RADICALS and the discovery of nitrous oxide
www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...
Behind the scenes at the Pneumatic Institution, with Tim Haigh
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Iโll be down under for this in Nov/Dec
www.gardenstates.org
late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...
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