Mortality, Healing, Drugs
Psychedelic Press XXXVI
‘Imagine having unfettered access to all parts of yourself with no boundaries or restrictions,’ writes Ricky Lesser, ‘all of the light, all of the dark, and everything in-between—straight through to your innermost being.’ Ricky’s article, ‘The Deepest Place’, appears in the new Psychedelic Press journal (XXXVI).
It describes a carefully orchestrated polydrug experience, with MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and 5-MeO-DMT. An undertaking that is not for the faint-hearted. It is, however, a perfect microcosm of this journal, in which our editor Nikki Wyrd has curated an enriching selection of psychedelic writing.
XXXVI is out in June and available to pre-order here. You can also subscribe to 4 issues, and receive 30% off the cover price of our print edition.
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This issue is packed full of beautifully written and thought-provoking articles.
What lurks in the shadows of dark experiences may be brought into the light, but there always remains warnings, dangers, the unknown. Jasmine Vardi explores the value of ‘bad trips’ and ‘spiritual emergencies’ in her contribution, and the way an integral approach can help pave the way for better outcomes.
Our great friend and regular contributor, the ‘psychedelic granddad’, Rod Read has a beautiful piece reflecting on mortality, death and psychedelia. It is a touching reminder that we should walk, indeed trip, in light of the final darkness; the ‘meditation of mortality’ as he describes it.
When treading the path, however, we are also in the midst of thinking creatively. In ‘On Spiders, Drugs, and Poetry’, Robert Dickins explores Peter N Witt’s drug experiments with spiders - I’m sure you’ll be familiar with the images of intricate, drug-fueled webs - and their creative influence on psychedelia.
‘It’s been almost two weeks since meeting my future self’, writes Robert Snarskis in ‘Shamanic Time Travel’. In it, he shares his wonderful, mind-bending experiences of time, describing it as a ‘a superpower’. The importance of past, present, and future, is also an underlying theme in Ben van Kempen’s ‘A Call for Embodiment’, which delves into the important area of consent and sexuality before and during psychedelic experiences.
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