global history – Chacruna

Between East and West: Rediscovering Egypt’s Forgotten Psychedelic Psychiatry (1950s-1970s)

A forgotten cache of LSD-25 in Cairo reveals Egypt’s overlooked role in early psychedelic psychiatry....

Robin Farquharson is a transitional figure through whom it is possible to explore the transformation...

In this article, Stephen Snelders explores a watershed in the diffusion of LSD in the...

The histories of electronics and psychedelics are intertwined as Peter Sachs Collopy shows in this...

Andrew Jones explores the connection between LSD and the origins of clinical theology illuminating the...

The first LSD experiments in South America in the 1950s were carried out similarly to...

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and...

Chacruna invites submissions to our Global History of Psychedelics series. The ongoing series highlights the...

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars...

Ergot is a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and serves as the raw material...