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From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
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📣All welcome to special @kingsioppn.bsky.social event
Fri 21st 18:00-19:30
IoPPN, Denmark Hill
The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science
Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇
Fri 21st 18:00-19:30
IoPPN, Denmark Hill
The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science
Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📣All welcome to special @kingsioppn.bsky.social event
Fri 21st 18:00-19:30
IoPPN, Denmark Hill
The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science
Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇
Fri 21st 18:00-19:30
IoPPN, Denmark Hill
The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science
Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇
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#OnThisDay in 1977 the artist William Kurelek died. His 1953 autobiographical painting, The Maze, painted during his time as a patient at the Maudsley Hospital, continues to captivate visitors to Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Discover this intriguing artwork here: bit.ly/MOTMMaze
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#OnThisDay in 1977 the artist William Kurelek died. His 1953 autobiographical painting, The Maze, painted during his time as a patient at the Maudsley Hospital, continues to captivate visitors to Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Discover this intriguing artwork here: bit.ly/MOTMMaze
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Listen to a series of recordings made by the ethnographer James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself — publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Listen to a series of recordings made by the ethnographer James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself — publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...
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The tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars confined to Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the “Air Loom” — a terrifying machine which was brainwashing politicians: publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
October 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars confined to Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the “Air Loom” — a terrifying machine which was brainwashing politicians: publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
‘Tis the season…
Mushrooms in Wonderland - Mike Jay
Was Victorian fairy art and lore inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi?
mikejay.net
October 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‘Tis the season…
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"Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Mind" by Mike Jay
"…Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism." Mike is always a great read!
erowid.org/books/psycho...
"…Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism." Mike is always a great read!
erowid.org/books/psycho...
September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Mind" by Mike Jay
"…Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism." Mike is always a great read!
erowid.org/books/psycho...
"…Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism." Mike is always a great read!
erowid.org/books/psycho...
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Donate and help spread the word!
Matching challenge!
$20-$499 donations are DOUBLED
$500-$3,000 donations are TRIPLED
Erowid.org/sept_drive
Donate and help spread the word!
September 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Erowid needs your support. Donate toward real, honest info about psychedelics plants & drugs…for harm reduction, benefit enhancement, and the history books.
Matching challenge!
$20-$499 donations are DOUBLED
$500-$3,000 donations are TRIPLED
Erowid.org/sept_drive
Donate and help spread the word!
Matching challenge!
$20-$499 donations are DOUBLED
$500-$3,000 donations are TRIPLED
Erowid.org/sept_drive
Donate and help spread the word!
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From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...
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If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
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‘One veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher Stephan Beyer why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they weren’t sick.’
@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mike Jay · Priest of the Devil: On Shamanism
‘Shamanism’, as a concept, is of course a Western invention, and from the earliest cross-cultural encounters it was...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
‘One veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher Stephan Beyer why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they weren’t sick.’
@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thrilled to see this mammoth review of "Shamanism" in
@lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mike Jay · Priest of the Devil: On Shamanism
‘Shamanism’, as a concept, is of course a Western invention, and from the earliest cross-cultural encounters it was...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thrilled to see this mammoth review of "Shamanism" in
@lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ever dreamt of being chased, falling, or flying? Our new exhibition, 'Between Sleeping and Waking', will bring together 200 years of artwork to show you are not alone!
Opening this Thursday, 14 August *ੈ✩‧₊˚ bit.ly/MOTM_dreams
Image: Let There Be Light, Edgar Farrar, 1943.
Opening this Thursday, 14 August *ੈ✩‧₊˚ bit.ly/MOTM_dreams
Image: Let There Be Light, Edgar Farrar, 1943.
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ever dreamt of being chased, falling, or flying? Our new exhibition, 'Between Sleeping and Waking', will bring together 200 years of artwork to show you are not alone!
Opening this Thursday, 14 August *ੈ✩‧₊˚ bit.ly/MOTM_dreams
Image: Let There Be Light, Edgar Farrar, 1943.
Opening this Thursday, 14 August *ੈ✩‧₊˚ bit.ly/MOTM_dreams
Image: Let There Be Light, Edgar Farrar, 1943.
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On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals | Little Atoms
A Podcast about Ideas and Culture
shows.acast.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
Talking FREE RADICALS and the discovery of nitrous oxide
www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...
www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...
July 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Talking FREE RADICALS and the discovery of nitrous oxide
www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...
www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...
Behind the scenes at the Pneumatic Institution, with Tim Haigh
bookspodcast.com
bookspodcast.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Behind the scenes at the Pneumatic Institution, with Tim Haigh
bookspodcast.com
bookspodcast.com
I’ll be down under for this in Nov/Dec
www.gardenstates.org
www.gardenstates.org
EGA Garden States: Regeneration
www.gardenstates.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I’ll be down under for this in Nov/Dec
www.gardenstates.org
www.gardenstates.org
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late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...
June 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...
On the gas in Bath tomorrow
www.brlsi.org/whatson/free...
www.brlsi.org/whatson/free...
Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assi...
www.brlsi.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On the gas in Bath tomorrow
www.brlsi.org/whatson/free...
www.brlsi.org/whatson/free...
The mighty Sia get due recognition in Audubon - great piece by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social
www.audubon.org/magazine/nat...
www.audubon.org/magazine/nat...
This Native-Run Raptor Center Is Safeguarding Sacred Birds, Feathers, and Practices
A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes while preserving traditions at the heart of their culture.
www.audubon.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The mighty Sia get due recognition in Audubon - great piece by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social
www.audubon.org/magazine/nat...
www.audubon.org/magazine/nat...
Bristolians: launching FREE RADICALS at the Bookhaus on Wednesday
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
June 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Bristolians: launching FREE RADICALS at the Bookhaus on Wednesday
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
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This guest blog by @mikejay.bsky.social Mike Jay was originally published in the New Statesman, reproduced with permission
Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee
mikejay.net
His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind'
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Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee
mikejay.net
His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind'
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June 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This guest blog by @mikejay.bsky.social Mike Jay was originally published in the New Statesman, reproduced with permission
Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee
mikejay.net
His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind'
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Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee
mikejay.net
His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind'
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