“Bicycle Day” is April 19th, and is the closest thing the psychedelic community has to a holyday. It celebrates the anniversary of the world’s first conscious acid trip, undertaken by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann when he purposely took what he thought would be microdose of LSD-25.
The Psychedelic Renaissance is simply the latest label for Western culture’s acceptance of expanded consciousness. Indigenous people across the world have been caretakers for psychoactive plants and substances that expand consciousness and return us to a relationship with the planetary intelligence we call ‘nature’.