Counterculture

After the political backlash that came from the counterculture in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the current ‘psychedelic renaissance’ has largely become a therapeutic movement. When psychedelics were criminalized in 1968, some 40,000 patients had been prescribed one form of LSD therapy or another as treatment for neurosis, schizophrenia, alcoholism, and…

There is no way around it, nation states and their institutions behave like predatory cults that demand your subservience to them in order to get basic needs met that should be free, like access to food, water, and land. They have created a scheme where we owe other people from…

“I can barely define the shape of this moment in time” “Final Cut”, Pink Floyd Today we need to talk about Pink Floyd’s debut album The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn and interrogate our misinterpretation of the structure of the individual self. Or is this just an excuse to…

My mother and her sewing machine. — When I was around six or seven years old, I became obsessed with the Woodstock festival. The inspiration probably came from Susan, the oldest of my two sisters. She was a teenager who had psychedelic posters on her bedroom walls and LP records and eight-track tapes that fascinated me. My…

https://www.hbo.com/george-carlins-american-dream George Carlin had a point: One impulse is to want to see it crash and burn. So many things are so no good. But his expression started to trend toward nihilism. At the end of the documentary Stephen Colbert says: “He got too dark.” * * * * “Green”…

If you’re going to talk about counterculture in second millennium America you’ve got to talk about Adam Parfrey and Feral House. Patron…

Cannabis has officially gone mainstream in California — If you or a loved one struggles with Cannabis Use Disorder, check out my podcast Dreams & Ashes: Confessions of a Recovering Pothead A friend sent me this rather stunning aerial photo of UC Berkeley’s Memorial Glade yesterday, on 4/20. The Cal campus was once the site of the famous…