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"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne
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October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne
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"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale."
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October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale."
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Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne
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Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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September 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne
Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality'
- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality'
- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick
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September 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick
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Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
September 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Science is not some lone bastion of truth. Like everything else, it has good and bad actors. Weird framing.
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Science is not some lone bastion of truth. Like everything else, it has good and bad actors. Weird framing.
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Extract from The Hasheesh Eater (1857) by novelist/journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow, born #onthisday in 1836. Terence McKenna would describe Ludlow as "Part genius, part madman, … halfway between Cpt Ahab and PT Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish": publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Extract from The Hasheesh Eater (1857) by novelist/journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow, born #onthisday in 1836. Terence McKenna would describe Ludlow as "Part genius, part madman, … halfway between Cpt Ahab and PT Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish": publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out tomorrow!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out tomorrow!
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Fascinating new article by @hawksmoormusic.bsky.social on our Substack, looking at sacred sites, psys, and nature-connectedness...
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Mind Gardens
On the Propensity for Psychedelic-Induced Nature-Connectedness and the Demand for New Sacred Spaces
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September 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Fascinating new article by @hawksmoormusic.bsky.social on our Substack, looking at sacred sites, psys, and nature-connectedness...
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/mind-gardens
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Wahoo! ❤️👀🤩
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
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Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
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August 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wahoo! ❤️👀🤩
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Just learned that Alston Hughes - aka Smiles - had died - RIP my friend, a life well-lived ❤️
August 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Just learned that Alston Hughes - aka Smiles - had died - RIP my friend, a life well-lived ❤️
Great article exploring a Huxley family trip by James L Penner:
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August 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Great article exploring a Huxley family trip by James L Penner:
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Excellent review/interview with historian Andy Roberts about the revised edition of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain...
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Book Review: Albion Dreaming: A History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts | Chemical Collective
In Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, author Andy Roberts uncovers and updates the little-known but deeply rooted history of LSD in the UK
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August 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Excellent review/interview with historian Andy Roberts about the revised edition of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain...
chemical-collective.com/blog/2025/08...
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Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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July 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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Very pleased to announce our new forthcoming book...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
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Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Very pleased to announce our new forthcoming book...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Nice interview with Andy Roberts, author of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, via @internationaltimes.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nice interview with Andy Roberts, author of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, via @internationaltimes.bsky.social
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Review of Andrew R Gallimore’s new book Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World’s Strangest Drug [DMT]
Thanks to William Rowlandson for his words! Plus shout out for @breakingconvention.bsky.social <3
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Thanks to William Rowlandson for his words! Plus shout out for @breakingconvention.bsky.social <3
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A Picture of Elf
Review of Death by Astonishment by Andrew Gallimore
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July 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Review of Andrew R Gallimore’s new book Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World’s Strangest Drug [DMT]
Thanks to William Rowlandson for his words! Plus shout out for @breakingconvention.bsky.social <3
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Thanks to William Rowlandson for his words! Plus shout out for @breakingconvention.bsky.social <3
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"Whether you believe L$D is an escape from reality or a trip into the heart of it, the hidden history of the most potent and undefinable drug known to humankind is only just being unearthed"
- historian Andy Roberts
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- historian Andy Roberts
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Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts
Albion Dreaming tells the story of the myriad ways that LSD has shaped and influenced British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s
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July 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Whether you believe L$D is an escape from reality or a trip into the heart of it, the hidden history of the most potent and undefinable drug known to humankind is only just being unearthed"
- historian Andy Roberts
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- historian Andy Roberts
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Acid Dialectics' by Vincent Rado - a very engaging and thoughtful book. Our review is available here:
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July 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Acid Dialectics' by Vincent Rado - a very engaging and thoughtful book. Our review is available here:
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/lsd-and-st...
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/lsd-and-st...
“They really did share this belief in psychedelics as a way to augment the psyche, heal the world. ‘True belief’ really enabled that behavior, but ‘ego inflation’ actually got in their way” - Susannah Cahalan
Interview by James Penner
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Interview by James Penner
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June 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“They really did share this belief in psychedelics as a way to augment the psyche, heal the world. ‘True belief’ really enabled that behavior, but ‘ego inflation’ actually got in their way” - Susannah Cahalan
Interview by James Penner
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Interview by James Penner
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'I am so glad I took LSD' - Dr Sue Blackmore
Read more here:
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Read more here:
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June 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'I am so glad I took LSD' - Dr Sue Blackmore
Read more here:
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Read more here:
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Andy Roberts' Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s.
Out now!
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Out now!
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May 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Andy Roberts' Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s.
Out now!
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/alb...
Out now!
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William 'Ubi' Dwyer was an anarchist, psychedelicist & festival organiser who steered acid anarchism in the UK.
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
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"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
May 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
William 'Ubi' Dwyer was an anarchist, psychedelicist & festival organiser who steered acid anarchism in the UK.
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj