At the height of the first wave of psychedelia in the 1960s, Ken Kesey promoted the idea of the “Next Step”, which at the time he envisaged as “Beyond Acid”.
The medicine of Bufo Alvarius toad in modern times is essentially less than a decade old. There are Mesoamerican carvings of toads and anthropologists and academics say that they’re fertility symbols because of the rain.
Mark McCloud is the Doctor Strange of the art world. Most days he can be found pottering about in his Sanctum Sanctorum, up on the top floor of his old Victorian house in the Mission district of San Francisco, a curio sanctuary deposit of times past.
With the current cultural surge in interest in 5-MeO-DMT, what language can we give the unfathomable? Does the discourse need to veer from the shamanic/psychotherapeutic descriptions to a mystic terminology?
Ron Wheelock stares at me with cloudy gray-blue eyes ringed with hardship. He’s practically bald on top with a shiny forehead, just a light scalping of thinning hair and long side hair that falls down past his ears.
In the classic 1936 propaganda movie ‘Reefer Madness’, a good young man is seduced into the ways of “marihuana… the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America”,
