2005-08-20
Alex Grey in Chicago September 30th
Alex Grey will be giving a slideshow presentation at Transitions Bookplace Friday, September 30 at 7:30 pm.
Transitions is at 1000 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622. For more information call 312-951-READ
2005-08-08
Is there a 12-year cycle in psychedelic history?
Check out these dates; the 12-year periodicity in them is fascinating.
1919 - mescaline first synthesized; Aleister Crowley leaves New York for Sicily (writing Diary of a Drug Fiend which was published in 1922). (Timothy Leary born in 1920)
1931
DMT first synthesized; Lewis Lewin's revolutionary encyclopedia of psychoactives, "Phantastica", first published in English edition effectively the beginning of systematic psychedelic research; Aldous Huxley reads "Phantastica" which first piques his interest in psychoactive substances, writes his first psychedelic essay and Brave New World; Ram Dass and Carlos Castenada born. (Robert Anton Wilson born in January 1932)
1943- Hoffmann discovers effects of LSD; beginning of Manhattan Project
1955
First American symposium on psychedelics (Round Table on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and Mescaline in Experimental Psychiatry, held at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlantic City, NJ May 12, 1955); Aldous Huxley gives a speech there.
Gordon Wasson meets Maria Sabina, which led to Timothy Leary's interest in psychedelics, which led to....
1967 - Timothy Leary at Human Be-In; 20,000 people ;
1979
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1919 - mescaline first synthesized; Aleister Crowley leaves New York for Sicily (writing Diary of a Drug Fiend which was published in 1922). (Timothy Leary born in 1920)
1931
DMT first synthesized; Lewis Lewin's revolutionary encyclopedia of psychoactives, "Phantastica", first published in English edition effectively the beginning of systematic psychedelic research; Aldous Huxley reads "Phantastica" which first piques his interest in psychoactive substances, writes his first psychedelic essay and Brave New World; Ram Dass and Carlos Castenada born. (Robert Anton Wilson born in January 1932)
1943- Hoffmann discovers effects of LSD; beginning of Manhattan Project
1955
First American symposium on psychedelics (Round Table on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and Mescaline in Experimental Psychiatry, held at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlantic City, NJ May 12, 1955); Aldous Huxley gives a speech there.
Gordon Wasson meets Maria Sabina, which led to Timothy Leary's interest in psychedelics, which led to....
1967 - Timothy Leary at Human Be-In; 20,000 people ;
1979
- Psilocybin mushroom pandemic: the McKenna brothers published their first book on cultivation in 1976 (Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Growers Guide), and multiple editions during the seventies. The ensuing widespread availability of home-grown psilocybin certainly did much to fuel the resurgence of the psychedelic revolution begun in the sixties, and ended the long psychedelic drought imposed by shortage of LSD during seventies and eighties.
- "Entheogen" is a term proposed in 1979 by the scholars R. Gordon Wasson, Carl A.P. Ruck, Jonathan Ott, Jeremy Bigwood and Danny Staples for agents "generating the god or the divine within", shorn of any speculative metaphysics. (from www.mdma.net)
- both MDMA and 2C-B find their way to the United States
- Ann and Sasha Shulgin first meet
- Usenet founded
- Burning Man comes to Black Rock Desert
- Robert McPherson ( www.fanaticus.com ) publishes PF TEK psilocybin mushroom cultivation method in High Times magazine (in September).
- Sasha and Ann Shulgin's book Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved: A Chemical Love Story (PiHKAL) is published.
- Daniel Pinchbeck's book Breaking Open the Head published
- Chicagoland Consciousness Cafe founded
- Mind States conference in Berkeley
- Fanaticus raided by DEA and shut down
Categories: psychedelic, history
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