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flashback with olivia newton-john in another place and time

April 18, 2020March 10, 2018 by Neal

JUST OPENED ALTERNET and among the dirty dozen or so stories—including those on the White House, white nationalists and Stormy Davis—there was this splash of color with multiple images of Jimi Hendrix circling the Mad Hatter! It accompanied an article titled “How LSD Makes Music Profoundly Awesome” about researchers learning more about how the powerful psychedelic LSD affects the brain. READ MORE

I think the psychedelic path is sometimes the easiest path

April 18, 2020November 9, 2017 by Neal

THE GOD CAPSULE is the clever term applied to a hit of LSD in “The God Capsule: Can Psychedelics Prove a Biological Basis for Spirituality?” An article by Alexander Zaitchik (November 8, 2017), it addresses the psychedelic path and its effects of LSD on the human meat system. READ MORE

just how does lsd affect your consciousness?

March 24, 2020December 20, 2015 by Neal

Medium IMAGE LSD Pixabay OkanCaliskan 1500 crop

JUST HOW DOES LSD affect human consciousness? This question has puzzled users and investigators for more than seventy years. Personally, I have been more amazed and filled with joy wonder awe at the Universe/Void/God than puzzled by the how of these things. And that seems to be a defining difference between the experienced and the non-experienced in the world of LSD and any and all things psychedelic. READ MORE

o gadji beri booboo (guardian of our being)

May 6, 2020January 22, 2014 by Neal

SHE IS RUNNING ABOUT here there everywhere at once making a noise between a growl a meow a touch of purr helterskeltering off the walls furniture things humans can’t see bounding from room to room back again between my legs Berni’s legs around our legs with no apparent goal except the run itself all the while grounding us Berni and me guarding our being and just who is she! READ MORE

dock ellis and the psychedelic no-hitter (or ellis in wonderland)

May 13, 2019November 22, 2013 by Neal

I GREW UP HEARING the refrain “Baseball and Ballantine” sung on endless commercials while watching Phillies games on television in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the early ’60s. Ballantine was a local brewery and its beer was very affordable and very popular. They sponsored the broadcast of the games because and what goes better together than beer and baseball? READ MORE

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