Psychedelia Everywhere

TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT, but first read Huxley’s Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell, Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience, and Watts’s Joyous Cosmology. And once you can answer the question, “Are you experienced?” with a “Yes,” then you’ll find things are stranger than known.

At the beginning of 1965, hardly anyone had heard of LSD. By the end of 1966, almost everyone knew of LSD, and it scared the bejeezus out of everyone over 30.

Fortunately, it didn’t scare the rest of us …

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if you’re not a psychonaut, then what are you?

January 31, 2020November 14, 2019 by Neal

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THIS ARTICLE STARTED AS A JOKE‚ but will serve as a brief introduction to psychonautics for the non-experienced. I use the word “experienced” here in its Hendrixian meaning—meaning, I am referring to Jimi Hendrix Experience’s recording Are You Experienced? from their 1967 album of the same title. [CONTINUE READING]

the true story of how austin became the liberal hotspot of texas *

April 11, 2020October 3, 2018 by Neal

AUSTIN IS NOTORIOUS among Texas cities for being so damn liberal. This state of affairs has baffled many people over the years and one of them asked this question on Quora: “What caused Austin, TX to be more liberal than the rest of Texas? [CONTINUE READING]

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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be," – Kurt Vonnegut

"Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” ― Stokely Carmichael

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"Were the sixties that way for everybody—music and sex and politics and love all inextricably part of each other—or is it just me?'' – Ray Shackleford

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"Turn on, tune in, drop out." – Timothy Leary

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