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A Historian’s Reflection on Music and Psychedelics

I will never forget the moment music transported me out of my own body. I...

Hermina Browne and Helen Bonny are two revolutionary figures in the history of using music...

Laura Archera Huxley, author of You Are Not the Target (1963), was a pioneer in...

Maria Nys Huxley was an active participant in 20th century psychedelic culture. Though most of...

Since at least the 1840s psychiatrists have administered psychedelics to treat their patients. From the...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: ambitious, brave, and pioneering white man travels to...

In 1905, several women (and one man), detained at a psychiatric institution in Breslau, now...

Growing up in Britain in the mid ‘90s, the name, and image, of Leah Betts...

November 2012. I have just started my research on the history of LSD and this...

Eileen J. Garrett (1893-1970) is reputed to be the greatest psychic and “trance” medium of...