The Lost World of James Lee
Twenty years on the trail of a 19th century psychonaut
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Peyote among the Aesthetes
psychedelic experiments in 1890s London
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A Journey Between Worlds
the encounter that introduced peyote to western science
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The Acid Farmers
How Sandoz Pharmaceuticals produced the LSD that turned on the world
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Bicycle Day Revisited
What really happened on the first acid trip?
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‘The Colony of the Mad’
The history of Geel, and the future of mental healthcare
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Shaman’s Revenge?
the birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco
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The Lotus Eaters
The island drug culture of Homer’s Odyssey, and where we might find it today
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Stranger than Fiction
From mind control to the Truman Show: how paranoid delusions colonised popular culture
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Over the Edge
William Sargant and the Battle for the Mind
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The Green Jam of ‘Doctor X’
Science and literature at the Club des Hachischins
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Dreaming While Awake
A history of sane hallucinations
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The Pope of Opium
Thomas de Quincey, the archetypal drug fiend
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“Watson: the Needle!”
Sherlock Holmes and cocaine
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‘Darkness over All’
John Robison and the birth of the Illuminati conspiracy
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Adventures in the Fourth Dimension
The Time Machine and the birth of cinema
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Enter the Jaguar
The temple ruins of Chavin in Peru reveal the role of hallucinogenic plants in the origins of Andean civilisation
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We Burn to Remember
Bonfire Night in Lewes: its riotous origins and survival against the odds
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James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
The secret life and turbulent times of the first man to believe that his mind was being controlled by a machine
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The Last Cargo Cult
On the remote island of Tanna in the South Pacific, the worshippers of the mysterious John Frum are still waiting for their promised American cargo…or are they?
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‘The Fruitful Matrix of Ghosts’
The psychic investigations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Mushrooms in Wonderland
Was Victorian fairy art and lore inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi?
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The Sacred Stones of Borneo
When the Kelabit people of the Borneo highlands first came into contact with the the modern world during World War 2, they were still erecting ceremonial megaliths
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Man of the Year Million
The evolution of H.G.Wells: the Darwinian terrors of The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds.
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Opium and the Symphonie Fantastique
The fever dreams of Hector Berlioz, and the role of opium in the composition of his nightmare masterpiece
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The Art of Mind Control
The influencing machine in visionary and outsider art
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The Rites of Roerich
Artist and mystic Nicholas Roerich, after recreating the world of the ancient Slavs for Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, tracked its surviving traces in an epic quest through the Himalayas
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Edward and Catherine Despard
A revolutionary mixed race marriage in Georgian London
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