For centuries, it seems Britain’s magic mushrooms remained hidden in plain sight—growing in fields, parks, and hillsides. When knowledge of them did emerge, it passed between people through rumours, o...

Review by William Rowlandson

The story of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who imagined a future where machines fuse with our mindsAs humanity and technol...

Review of Pipe Dreams and Smoke Screens (2025) by Richard Halford

In this episode, I talk to Kojo Koram, Professor of Law and Political Economy at Loughborough University, about his new book ‘The Next Fix’. Further details about the book are available…

Here’s another rare Ginsberg item – if you happened to have $45,000 to spare!  – an autograph manuscript of his poem “Aether” (with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder), copied from (a) notebo...

The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space

Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic fungi entered British consciousness in the twentieth century, the bemushroomed Britons who took them on as part of their culture, and how the...

Principal Supervisor: Professor Toby Seddon (UCL) Co-Supervisor: Professor Alex Mold (LSHTM) Project Description Background Described as the oldest independent drugs charity in the world, Release w…

(and stole his walnut!)

Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space eBook : Vayne, Julian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Review of Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White

Trip Sitting is your essential guide to supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. Informed by cutting-edge science and extensive real-world experience, this book offers practical insights into...

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...

On the Propensity for Psychedelic-Induced Nature-Connectedness and the Demand for New Sacred Spaces