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.