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Ecstasy before a first acid trip

What’s more, you could (we were getting quite open-handed by now) add an Ecstasy trip to the envelope and suggest that taking it two hours or so before the…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #drugs #psychedelics #friends

How ayahuasca makes DMT work

Before Schultes, no one had understood that the decisive ingredient of ayahuasca wasn’t the giant Banisteriopsis caapi vine so much as the various…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #shamanism #drugs

The Psychedelic Resource List

The fastest-selling publication on the bookstall was the fourth edition of Jon Hanna’s Psychedelic Resource List, a compendium of websites, organizations, and…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #drugs #websites #business

The Secret Chief's clandestine network

Jacob continued to expand this clandestine network throughout his sixties and seventies. By the end he estimated he had initiated some four thousand people, a…

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Can a drug vision equal a saint's?

In any case, how can you take a vision that a saint or contemplative has worked toward for years and say that it is the “same” as one produced by dropping a…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religious-experience #spirituality

Neem Karoli Baba takes LSD

During the ’60s, when the debate as to whether psychedelics afforded an authentic mystical experience was at its height, there had appeared to be only one…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religious-experience #spirituality #faith