New ep of People Just Do Something is out + in the bio
This time Im w/ writer + drugs historian Mike Jay (@MikeJayNet) to explore the surprisingly revolutionary history of Nitrous Oxide/Laughing gas + the famous Bristolians who invented and prolifically self-experimented with it
In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: https://t.co/ZusxNPZpaj
Join celebrated historian @MikeJayNet at Bristol's Bookhaus for the launch of his newest book Free Radicals—a thrilling new history of the poets, scientists & radicals who discovered laughing gas and changed how we think about the mind.
June 25 🧠 ⚛️ 📖
https://t.co/dFiZWvR6mg
After setting fire to York Minster #OnThisDay in 1829, Jonathan Martin was confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department at Bethlem from 1829-1838. There he produced remarkable artworks typically depicting his prophetic visions. https://t.co/vF37uzd29R
Image: "Hell's Gate"
Historian @MikeJayNet tracing the dawn of 'psychedelic psychiatry' back to 1845 in our 2020 annual conference
This year's British Neuropsychiatry Association conference happens Mar 13-14 in London
Early bird registration is open now https://t.co/Y5unqVCl9p
It’s a retitled and revised edition of this, originally published 2009
Thanks to @loosestish and @YaleBooks for resurrecting it
https://t.co/I44evsg6uV
Today’s chaotic drug marketplace is blurring the lines between medicine, spirituality and getting high, @MikeJayNet writes.
Read: https://t.co/MEfoGJbj8e
@SteveTransform@PiersGibbon @Paracelsus1092 Not tobacco, and only speculation that this was a drug delivery spoon :-) Usual method then would be drinking (eg mugwort beer) or perhaps incense burning
‘Ayahuasca now pervades an international genre of psychedelic art in which Indigenous Amazonian themes merge with tropes of Eastern mysticism, science fiction and computer generated fractal geometries.’
@MikeJayNet on ayahuasca and peyote:
https://t.co/MbcEOIsyxb