🚨Delighted to announce that Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Robert Dickins (@cofgodas) is out now!
It tells the story of how these fungi entered British consciousness, the bemushroomed Britons who took them, and how the authorities policed them 🧵
"I’ve written Trip Sitting to assist people who intend to hold psychedelic space, particularly those just beginning this work, though I hope seasoned practitioners will also find valuable ideas in the text." - @JulianVayne
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Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic fungi entered British consciousness in the twentieth century, the bemushroomed Britons who took them on as part of their culture, and how the authorities tried to police them.
https://t.co/8ezJkh7ibO
❤️📖➡️ "Holding 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" - author @JulianVayne
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Putting the psi back into psilocybin - On psychedelomancy & exceptional psychedelic experiences
Latest Substack, exploring the paranormal experiences of the original pioneers of psychedelic science in the 50s & 60s on their initial altered excursions!
https://t.co/xL7PRLx5At
Wahoo! 🥳 The next Breaking Convention conference is back this May in London - and will no doubt be another fabulous day of psychedelic talks & community. Check out @breakingcon for more information and to get some tickets ❤️🙏⬇️
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"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!
https://t.co/YVhJUZCf3r
The real problem of AI consciousness is that you can’t know either way. I suggested a couple of ideas for an AI consciousness test though. @NoemaMag@anilkseth@berggruenInst@psypre https://t.co/fAT5FL0wn9
Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding P£ychedelic Space by @JulianVayne is out today 🥳
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful p£ychedelic journeys.
And includes a fabulous Foreword by @BellevueDoc
Link in bio, or ⬇️
Following on from my interview with @matthabusby for DoubleBlind last week I've further extended some of those insights into the highly speculative psychedelic origins of (or contributions to) language evolution into a new Substack post - https://t.co/7jEfFdUXoF