We've a new book review up on the other site - Alan Piper reviewing 'Tripped' by Norman Ohler
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In honor of #BicycleDay here is my interview from last year with Alan Piper Alan Piper on his book “Bicycle Day and Other Psychedelic Essays” covering Albert Hofmann, LSD, and its secret history.
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'Breen highlights how Bateson and Mead’s interest in psychedelics initially grew through their interest in altered states in folk religious practices in Bali and New Guinea.' - Alan Piper
New review up, link ⬇️
Ahead of Bicycle Day (🤩) next month, get a copy of 'Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays' by Alan Piper to find out more about Hofmann's extraordinary LSD discovery.
A handful of ltd. hardback copies left:
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As we have hit 6yrs of doing the show & almost at 300 episodes I am going to post some of our Top Episodes & Guests over the next month
#279 Alan Piper and The History of LSD
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Bicycle Day & The History of LSD w/ Alan Piper Alan Piper @PsypressUK
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P.D. Newman Leah (Prime) 🦊 Shane Frakes Chase’s @PartofTheSeries Dreaming jaguars RN Vooght 𓁀𓀳 𓁢 𓂀 #LSD #BicycleDay #AlbertHofmann #psychedelics #MindEscape #podcast
Alan Piper Something spiritual… A way to reconnect to a thing that we’ve lost, and this is when Terence McKenna’s message of the archaic revival really began resonating.
The Christians were the butt of the joke, think ChurchLady on SNL… the culture should have flipped over by now… ⏳
Alan Piper The politically correct crowd should have become the butt of the joke a long time ago, regarding cycles of culture & counterculture… Being that we’re in this artificial nightmare, however, we are not allowed to rejoice in the organic experience unless we pay 1k for the trip? 💵
Alan Piper For this shamanic experience to be distilled, sterilized, and ripped out of its cultural context only to be converted from something spiritual protected by religious freedom into a Controlled Psychiatric Medication in a Hospital setting- is much more like Hell than a bad trip.
Alan Piper The Christians would have embraced the concept of a bad trip, telling you to go ahead and experience hell so you don’t have to do it for real… This is the entire notion of dying before you die.
This archetypical meta is hidden in the combined works of early Christian Texts
Alan Piper And what you’re saying is correct… There should be a context for a bad trip in today’s world- in this new era of psychiatry… Because even that is a healthy engagement with the shadow, but due to the cultural inversion, the bad trips will be seen as a flaw instead of the Feature
Alan Piper So it has become a moneymaking venture, and legitimized as psychiatry… And what that means is that the visionary experience will be removed so that a prescripted outcome is controllable- and there will be responsible parties to sue.
This makes it hugely complicated now
Alan Piper As far as counterculture, that’s difficult to say as we’ve been in an artificial cycle since the early 90’s. The real era began with Bill Hicks on Tool’s album, Ænema. In that context, psychedelics were ‘that which revived genius in a washed out world.’ It became something more,
Just received a preview copy of this wonderful new book by Alan Piper Alan Piper from @PsypressUK. I'm pleased to have had a hand in its design. It's available to pre-order on psychedelicpress.co.uk (Ltd ed 300 hardbacks).
