Kool-Aid Corner #9
To finish: trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life
Graph or Table of the Week
Self treatment with psychedelics:
From: Self-treatment of psychosis and complex post-traumatic stress disorder with LSD and DMT —A retrospective case study by Mika Turkia published in Psychiatry Research Case Reports Vol 1 Issue 2 (2022)
My bookshelf weighs a ton
Notable new purchases for the occult library. Strictly second hand snap-ups only. This week: Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Another score from the Brick Lane bookstore, £6.50
“No other writer has thus opened my eyes,” wrote Albert Hoffman of Junger’s sublime nature writing in LSD: My Problem Child. Although the psychedelic inventor who corresponded with Junger after WW2, was keen to point out that he was less into Junger’s ‘earlier books’ about ‘war and a new type of human being.’
Junger was Germany’s greatest military hero of WW1. Throughout his career he consistently refused to apologise for embracing conflict when necessary, perhaps in contrast to his proto-hippy views that influnced the 60s counter-culture. He did accept that the warrior was powerless against the march of tech. “In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high” is just one of the gems from this terrifying and exhilarating account of trench warfare that’s often uncomfortably, but necessarily, voyueristic.