“I was simply tired of being me.”
LSD
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Out of Your Head
“Exploring psychedelic experiences that seem wider than the brain.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Acid Media
“How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD.”
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Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.
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The Gentrification of Consciousness
“San Francisco’s Mission district has become synonymous with well-paid tech workers displacing non-white longtime residents. It’s now the setting for a new battle, as the coming psychedelic-industrial complex threatens to strip hallucinogenic drugs of their historical and religious significance.”
Posted inNonfiction
Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List
The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.
Posted inNonfiction
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
Posted inStory
High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
Posted inBooks, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Why Psilocybin and LSD Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap
A survey of recent reads says that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and LSD are not only enjoying a renaissance — they might actually be helpful to humans.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Putting Creativity on Your Tab
Dropping acid at the office? Everybody’s doing it.