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How I Met Legendary Acid Chemist Richard Kemp (and stole his walnut!)

An excellent read from British Psychedelic culture scholar Andy Roberts on meeting the illusive LSD chemist Richard Kemp @psypre.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/psychede...

"At some point during his tenure with Stark in Paris, Kemp created what was to become the infamous ‘brown acid’ distributed at the 1969 Woodstock festival." - Andy Roberts

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For Bristol folk and beyond, author Robert Dickins is giving a talk next month on the history of Bemushroomed Britons for The Psychedelic Society... come along!

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The eBook of Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by @JulianVayne is out now!

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Some lovely reviews of Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne starting to appear in the wild....

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Our review of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by @gmantic.bsky.social

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An Architecture of Sacred Plants Review of Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White

In Microcosms: Sacred Plants of the Americas, Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White have given us a glimpse into the inner botanical workings of some of world’s most enigmatic plants.

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Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne Trip Sitting is your essential guide to supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. Informed by cutting-edge science and extensive real-world experience, this book offers practical insights into...

Trip Sitting is your guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. Informed by cutting-edge science & extensive real-world experience, it offers practical insights into the skills, techniques, and mindset that every effective trip sitter needs.

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Psilocybe Mushroom Pickers in Britain I was taught to identify and locate the Psilocybe semilanceata mushroom, or Liberty Cap, as a teenager around the turn of the millennium. In those days in Britain it was common knowledge passed down f...

"Psilocybe Pickers tell the story of how a culture that started life in the shadows slowly blossomed in every corner of Britain’s landscape, transforming into a staple part of recreational, regional scenes."

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Lovely first review of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons on Amazon...

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New pickings from @psypre.bsky.social

Thanks Mike! <3

The most detailed account yet of the Liberty Cap’s emergence - highly recommended 🍄

Thanks Toby - hope you enjoy it :-)

Another gem from @psypre.bsky.social

Mind Gardens On the Propensity for Psychedelic-Induced Nature-Connectedness and the Demand for New Sacred Spaces

I am incredibly pleased to share this article and very grateful to Rob Dickins @psypre.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to consolidate some thoughts and ideas that express my passion for psych3delics and their role in culture and society. 
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🥳Delighted to announce the publication of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Dr Robert Dickins - out now! ❤️📖

Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.

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Excited to read this new book by @dannytheforde - review coming soon to our Substack ❤️📖

Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White

"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."

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Hot Pig Summer A Psychedelic Love Story

"I thought I was writing about synchronicities plucked from the dream place and chaotically, exuberantly integrated, but in reality, I was doing something much more human and falling in love with my best friend."

- Leonie Rowland

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"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne

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Excellent book!

"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale."

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"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne

Learn more about Trip Sitting here:

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'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality'

- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)

Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!

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"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick

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Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!

Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.

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Science is not some lone bastion of truth. Like everything else, it has good and bad actors. Weird framing.

Extract from The Hasheesh Eater (1857) by novelist/journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow, born #onthisday in 1836. Terence McKenna would describe Ludlow as "Part genius, part madman, … halfway between Cpt Ahab and PT Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish": publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD

Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out tomorrow!

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