How LSD Changed Britain
How LSD Changed Britain
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As psychedelics undergo a 21st century renaissance, join us for a look back at how the first psychedelic wave of the 60s changed Britain.
Featuring:
* Andy Roberts, author of 'Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain' and the upcoming 'Acid Drops: Adventures in Psychedelia'
* David Luke, co-founder of Breaking Convention, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and convenor of the the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lecture series
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Acid Drops, the new book from author of Albion Dreaming, Andy Roberts, is a timely celebration of Britain's LSD culture, and of the psychedelic experience itself. In eighteen essays, articles and interviews Andy goes down the rabbit hole and comes back with Interviews with 1950s LSD psychotherapist Ronnie Sandison, legendary underground DJ Jeff Dexter, Tim Leary's confidante and lover Liz Elliot (featuring a rare account of an acid trip with Tim), and legendary acid chemist Casey Hardison.
History picnickers will be enthralled by Operation Julie chemist Andy Munro's account of the police's misunderstanding of LSD manufacture while elsewhere you can read how the myth of putting acid in the reservoirs to effect social change came about. How the late Sixties hippy fascination with flying saucers was fuelled by LSD is explored, as are the dark days of 1966 when the legislation outlawing LSD was rushed through parliament at the behest of the Establishment. The story of the Grateful Dead's LSD driven mass telepathy experiments and the Welsh acid trip which inspired notorious Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's famous poem Wales Visitation are vividly brought to life, while horror author Ramsey Campbell discusses how although he didn't continue his LSD experiments they massively influenced several of his books and stories.
If you can cope with more, Andy depicts some of his own, highly strange LSD experiences involving premonition, appears in poetic encounter with a mysterious silvan sculpture and ponders the fine art of acid synchronicity in which you are introduced to the Duck of Evidence.
If it's the relationship between psychedelics and music you are after, the Incredible String Band's classic album, Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, is unpicked during the course of a trip. And there's still more, including the Welsh psilocibyn festivals and a cautionary tale in the form of a piece of psychedelic fiction, among other tripping yarns.
Topped and tailed with a Foreword by pioneering MDMA researcher Dr Ben Sessa and an Afterword by sorcerer and author of occult tomes Julian Vayne, Acid Drops will make you proud to be a part of an underground culture, one which is enjoying a vibrant rennaissance and one which you are all playing a part in.
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Candid Arts Trust, 3-5 Torrens St, EC1V 1NQ London
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How LSD Changed Britain
From GBP 7.00