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"Psilocybe Pickers tell the story of how a culture that started life in the shadows slowly blossomed in every corner of Britain’s landscape, transforming into a staple part of recreational, regional scenes."
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Psilocybe Mushroom Pickers in Britain
I was taught to identify and locate the Psilocybe semilanceata mushroom, or Liberty Cap, as a teenager around the turn of the millennium. In those days in Britain it was common knowledge passed down f...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Psilocybe Pickers tell the story of how a culture that started life in the shadows slowly blossomed in every corner of Britain’s landscape, transforming into a staple part of recreational, regional scenes."
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Lovely first review of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons on Amazon...
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Lovely first review of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons on Amazon...
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New pickings from @psypre.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New pickings from @psypre.bsky.social
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The most detailed account yet of the Liberty Cap’s emergence - highly recommended 🍄
🥳Delighted to announce the publication of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Dr Robert Dickins - out now! ❤️📖
Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
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Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The most detailed account yet of the Liberty Cap’s emergence - highly recommended 🍄
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Another gem from @psypre.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Another gem from @psypre.bsky.social
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I am incredibly pleased to share this article and very grateful to Rob Dickins @psypre.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to consolidate some thoughts and ideas that express my passion for psych3delics and their role in culture and society.
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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 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I am incredibly pleased to share this article and very grateful to Rob Dickins @psypre.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to consolidate some thoughts and ideas that express my passion for psych3delics and their role in culture and society.
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🥳Delighted to announce the publication of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Dr Robert Dickins - out now! ❤️📖
Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
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Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
More details & orders here:
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December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🥳Delighted to announce the publication of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Dr Robert Dickins - out now! ❤️📖
Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
More details & orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/psi...
Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher.
More details & orders here:
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Excited to read this new book by @dannytheforde - review coming soon to our Substack ❤️📖
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Excited to read this new book by @dannytheforde - review coming soon to our Substack ❤️📖
Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
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"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
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November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/microcosms
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/microcosms
"I thought I was writing about synchronicities plucked from the dream place and chaotically, exuberantly integrated, but in reality, I was doing something much more human and falling in love with my best friend."
- Leonie Rowland
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- Leonie Rowland
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Hot Pig Summer
A Psychedelic Love Story
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"I thought I was writing about synchronicities plucked from the dream place and chaotically, exuberantly integrated, but in reality, I was doing something much more human and falling in love with my best friend."
- Leonie Rowland
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- Leonie Rowland
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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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"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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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!
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
- 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.
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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.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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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
psychedelicpress.substack.com
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
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/mind-gardens
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:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
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...
chemical-collective.com/blog/2025/08...
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
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...