Kool-Aid Corner #7

To finish: trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life

 

Graph of the Week

Positive effects of DMT on rats:

From: Effects of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine on Rat Behaviours Relevant to Anxiety and Depression by Lindsay P. Cameron, Charlie J. Benson, Lee E. Dunlap, and David E. Olson published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, April 2018

 

My bookshelf weighs a ton

Notable new purchases for the occult library. Strictly second hand snap-ups only. This week: illustrated Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

From the National Trust bookstall at Ashton Court, West Somerset for £2

I currently live near Bunhill Row Cemetery in east London, where the ‘noncomformists’ were buried just outside the old city gates. The plot includes resting palces for Wuthering Heights author Thomas Hardy, Pilgrim’s Progress writer John Bunyan, Robinson Crusoe’s Daniel Dafoe, and Blake.

These poems contrasting the attitudes of the fool and the magus are a 12-Step favourite and often paired with the Bible’s Book of Job, that teaches life is more colourful when it includes hardship.

 

Next issue: Bennet Zenner of Brooklyn Psychedelic Society takes the discussion into the here and now

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