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
1991
2003

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