My obit for the late great Dr Nuke theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

US paperback of PSYCHONAUTS out on April 30th
Here’s a 4:20-themed extract from ⁦Yale Univ Press⁩ yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/04/20/can…

Finally a photo of the elusive James Lee! Great headline too

The People, 24 Nov 1935 (HT Darcy Moore)

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Wonderful, in-depth review of one of the first histories of the science of sleep lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The ever-interesting Mike Jay on 'Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep' by Kenneth Miller for the London Review of Books

“On April 11th, I made the first inspiration of pure nitrous oxide” — #onthisday in 1799, Humphry Davy became the first to experience #laughinggas (of which he perhaps became a little too fond). Read more in our essay by Mike Jay: buff.ly/3wULLBt #OTD

Rather than Freud’s cynicism or Jung’s enthusiasm, we need an inquisitive approach to unusual forms of consciousness psyche.co/ideas/william-…

Après des mois d’attentes je l’ai enfin reçu (et j’en profite pour vous montrer mon super bureau en fond 😁) !! J’ai déjà lu 40 pages et pris des dizaines de notes, ce livre fait partie du renouveau historiographique auquel j’appartiens aussi qui arrête d’étudier les psychotropes

.Juliette Bretan on Polish artist Witkacy's chemical forays, including his 1932 book Narcotics, a genre-bending treatise that warns of the hazards of drugs while seductively recollecting their delirious effects: publicdomainreview.org/essay/document…

RIP Russell Newcombe Dr Nuke ✴️ Drug researcher extraordinaire, fearless psychonaut, old and dear friend. Thoughts with Cher Newcombe-White @ BopsBaubles (on Etsy)

🙏 Psychonauts receives James A Duke Award for excellence in botanical literature from American Botanical Council 🙏

abc.herbalgram.org/site/MessageVi…

Where is the film about this guy

‘Sleep, it turned out, was not one state but two, as different from each other as sleep is from waking.’

Mike Jay on sleep science: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine - Unseen Histories unseenhistories.com/mike-jay-psych…

'Interwar Britain was likely more awash with cannabis than anyone today realizes, and in many surprising forms. The question then, and to an extent even today, is precisely who, and for what reason, was enjoying it?'

New article out, link⬇️

Ancient painkillers? The first conclusive evidence for Roman use of the hallucinogenic plant black henbane suggests it was an early form of medicine #WednesdayWisdom

🆓 buff.ly/3uh2TES

Why Freud never got addicted to cocaine, how nitrous oxide shaped 19th-c. philosophy and what drug chastised Aleister Crowley's boastful individualism. Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern world is a rare delight. Here's my review: tinyurl.com/44jvp4fv

Next up at UCL SAP, we have the legendary author Mike Jay coming into UCL on Tuesday 5th March to share his knowledge on the forgotten histories of psychedelics!

Click here for event details and registration: uclsap.com/events/psyched…

‘Confabulates’ is right there, but the ship has probably sailed at this point bigthink.com/13-8/stop-sayi…

🔦 Sunday Shop Spotlight!
Louis Wain & the Myth of the Disintegrating Cat
Bethlem Museum of the Mind founder, Patricia Allderidge, examines the widespread theory that Louis Wain's mental decline can be traced in his artwork - and finds it wanting.
bit.ly/WainMyth