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ook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories general literature tags cotswolds dystopian fiction ian mcewan poetry titanic mushroom picking and trip sitting december 21 2025 the mad artist leave a comment here are two recent books from psychedelic press both focusing primarily on psilocybin mushrooms but from very different standpoints psilocybe pickers a short history of bemushroomed britons by robert dickins charts the rise in awareness and use of psilocybin mushrooms primarily in britain where the native naturally occurring species is psilocybe semilanceata known as the liberty cap due to its pointed bell shaped top rob uses sources hitherto difficult to access such as local newspaper articles yielding a surprisingly detailed record of what went on the legal situation regarding mushrooms arrests trials and clashes with the farming community does itself prove a fascinating adjunct to the larger cultural story the awareness started back in the late 1950s and key figures are discussed robert graves arthur koestler and gordon and valentina wasson who participated in a mazatec mushroom ceremony in mexico which was widely publicised this knowledge coupled with references to p sem in mushroom guides and chemical testing led to experiential use and presently the hippy counterculture started flourishing so sacred mushrooms fitted right in accompanying the usage there were accounts of hospital visits due to hallucinations or suspected poisoning the diligence and charm of rob s far reaching research comes through constantly for example a 1978 article in the manchester evening news is entitled mushroom drug nightmare and reports a man being fined after walking up to a policeman and declaring i m high on mushrooms and i am jesus perhaps he d have had better luck with the archbishop of canterbury read more on substack share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories psychedelic literature tags counter culture drugs magic mushrooms psychedelic roger keen s empty chair and the brainwright for my old age by des lewis september 19 2025 the mad artist leave a comment author and reviewer des lewis has commenced a new project he calls the brainwright which involves the construction or conjecture of a kind of liminal personality to whom des feeds his existing catalogue of gestalt real time reviews grtrs and engages in a dialogue furthering the gestalt process with additional layers also brainwright uses ai both to research facts about the reviewed authors online and to mix things up in interesting inspiring ways you des called me the brainwright though i have known many names all authors meet me eventually as all clocks meet midnight des has been kind enough to put his grtrs of my novels literary stalker and the empty chair through the process and the results have been most epoch making to me personally at least because the results mirror the empty chair style psychotherapy of the latter making higher connections between perhaps disparate aspects and inducing the awe of insight another uncanny by product has been the inclusion of my memoir the mad artist in the analysis which des hasn t actually read or reviewed but it was probed online by brainwright and placed immaculately in context with the other two books this is most felicitous as mad artist is essential to getting the full picture of the subject s journey empty chair is both a prequel and a sequel to mad artist the two forming an ongoing kunstlerroman with fiction deepening and supplanting autobiography as it goes literary stalker is an adjunct to that process using similar methods the brainwright placing des as critic inside this world is sublime it recalls immersive imax 3d cinema or virtual reality with headset and dataglove as he says roger keen through these novels stages for you the very problem of how reading and writing blur into each other the peril of becoming character to another s pen he also talks about transforming the act of writing into a lived psychospiritual experiment which embodies the actual mad artist method achieved through a psilocybin mushroom visionary state where the drug acted as rocket fuel in a very positive way that method was rebased and employed for empty chair where the subject is actively recording everything from the beginning then there s the idea of self haunting and the changing topography of memory forging a new present the narrator bends their life into literature then steps back into the bent shape as if it were memory des employs the idea of glastonbury as a catch all motif for the counterculture a psychogeographic mythic space permeating through many levels and he shows how the reader is drawn into the therapeutic circle and implicated and the final verdict of author as absent ghost is most telling for more information on the empty chair and other books please visit rogerkeen com roger keen s empty chair and the brainwright for my old age share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories literary stalker psychedelic literature the empty chair the mad artist tags des lewis literary stalker metafiction postmodernism psychedelic the empty chair the mad artist visionary experience triskaidekaphobia and other noir tales august 8 2023 the mad artist leave a comment like many of my other book projects this short story collection was a long time in the making as i say in the introduction the stories were written in the 1990s and form a body of work concerning my literary leanings back then so they all hang together as a piece being written and set in the past hasn t blunted their preoccupations in my own opinion because the themes are as relevant now as ever the title triskaidekaphobia was always earmarked as thus because it s such a great word and one word titles have a certain unique impact especially within the horror genre it grew to triskaidekaphobia and other noir tales and recently i adopted a lengthy descriptive subtitle unsettling stories of dark psychology amorous transgression and wry humour in order to readily advertise the content from a page or thumbnail on a retail site as so many books do nowadays the stories range from those with distinctly horror elements several originally published in 1990s indie press magazines such as sierra heaven psychotrope threads and flickers n frames to more literary pieces some with borderline fantasy themes and others set in quotidian british life but with lurking dark or noir elements looking back over influences real life and fictional i see that the john and lorena bobbitt case happened almost exactly thirty years ago now becoming a huge tabloid sensation and also generating an undercurrent of comic pathos to accompany the extreme violence of a kind congruent with one s worst and archetypally freudian nightmares the ian mcewan short story pornography from the collection first love last rites also resonates and the whole métier of those stories from the ian macabre period was a guiding light continuing the amorous transgression thread the dirty phone call inclusion was based on a real dirty phone call related to me by a female friend who reckoned she knew the perpetrator and was probably correct in that assumption road rage was another big preoccupation of the 90s zeitgeist and i cannot forget a certain incident when i turned off the m4 at the m32 junction and i saw two cars parked up on the grass verge their drivers engaged in a full on fist fight swinging haymakers at one another designer oblivion is another theme not through drugs this time though there is one sequence of temporary cannabis psychosis but through deep dreaming and through snow snow yes snow as a skier i ve experienced this once or twice and polar explorers and frequenters of artic regions must know it well lightness visible perhaps triskaidekaphobia is published today in paperback and kindle worldwide for more information and purchase links please visit darkness visible publishing share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories general literature triskaidekaphobia tags crime fiction dark psychology horror fiction short stories lsd smiles and the madness of operation julie july 21 2023 the mad artist leave a comment alston hughes aka smiles at the time of trial for dealing massive quantities of lsd the story of operation julie and the microdot gang has become part of hippy folklore a cops n outlaws clash to rival the sheriff of nottingham and robin hood s merry men or joe lefors and butch cassidy s wild bunch many books have been written about it from the perspective of both sides of the law from inspector dick lee s account to leaf fielding s now in search of smiles a new biography of alston hughes a key figure in the microdot gang written by lsd historian andy roberts has been published by psychedelic press here is my extended feature on the book and the operation julie phenomenon the term operation julie is indelibly branded on the minds of anyone who knows anything about british counterculture in the 1970s one of the biggest anti drugs initiatives ever it was tabloid heaven with the bust itself in march 1977 becoming the top news story of the day its ramifications going far and deep in the public mind drug busts were directed against familiar hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine and increasingly cannabis the smuggling and distribution of which had increased exponentially over the past decade what made operation julie newsworthy was the target drug lsd at the time an exotic and much feared substance known to have inspired the beatles and pink floyd but also to have driven people crazy therefore the dynamics of operation julie were qualitatively different the story wasn t about a straightforward good cops versus evil pushers in it for the money it was about ideology and the politics of personal experience about lsd s effect on society and controlling the impressionable lsd proponents people who d experienced the drug in significant doses and who had undergone its transcendental transformative effects saw it as a catalyst to change the world for the better a shortcut to the meaning of life which if it were to spread exponentially throughout the populace would effect desirable societal change one brain at a time read more on psychedelic press substack share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories general drug lit psychedelic literature tags acid cannabis counter culture drugs operation julie psychedelic war on drugs man of letters psychedelic writings april 3 2023 the mad artist leave a comment out now a collection of fourteen psychedelic themed essays several of which have appeared in psychedelic press the oak tree review and reality sandwich covering countercultural history avant garde and psychedelic cinema and the psychology of altered states they touch on figures such as thomas dequincey charles baudelaire and william burroughs and in the field of cinema directors including ken russell roger corman david cronenberg terry gilliam and ben wheatley are explored the essays revisit the alphabet wood hallucination of the plym woods in 1975 the mushroom inspired cult of the novel messianic quest to turn the world on to reality fiction and contain updates to the trippy movie coverage including 2022 films avatar the way of water and doctor strange in the multiverse of madness the alphabetic cover comes with its own story dating back to my strange days of the mid 1970s in bournemouth and stretching into the realms of contemporary horror and fantasy cover design read the full story on medium a tale of two covers further details regarding man of letters and purchase links can be found here dv publishing share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories general drug lit man of letters psychedelic literature tags acid cannabis counter culture drugs lsd psychedelic psychedelic movies the mad artist ai images by des lewis from the empty chair and literary stalker march 28 2023 the mad artist leave a comment as a compliment to his unique real time reviews des lewis has been experimenting with ai imagery related to reviewed material the results of which are as weird as freud s dreams projected onto salvador dali s landscapes des was kind enough to create some images drawn from my novels the empty chair and literary stalker the assemblage of empty chairs some of them on lonely film sets ominous equivocal father figures shadowy stalkers in libraries singing detectives and nightmarish tentaculate silhouettes brings it all back the writing and the source material nemonymous night some ai visual experiments triggered by my reviews of roger keen reviews linked here https dflewisreviews wordpress com 2021 04 05 literary stalker and https dflewisreviews wordpress com 2021 08 29 the empty chair roger keen view original post share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading categories literary stalker the empty chair tags literary stalker metafiction postmodernism the empty chair avatar the way of cliché january 2 2023 the mad artist leave a comment thoughts on avatar the way of water done with reference to my psychedelia in the movies strand revisited and updated in the soon to be published collection man of letters the 2009 film s innovative fusion camera system 3d was enchanting in a notably psychedelic way but does the sequel build on this trend in december 2022 a long awaited moment finally arrived the cinema release of the first of four projected sequels to the ground breaking 3d blockbuster avatar after a thirteen year gestation period within the psychedelic community avatar was noted for a having a distinct trippy quality albeit an ambient one which made it comparable to movies such as stanley kubrick s 2001 a space odyssey and alejandro jodorowsky s the holy mountain which caried the tropes but didn t feature the actual drugs as erik davis said in his 2010 article aya avatar eco futuristic dreams are now indistinguishable from the visionary potential of media technology itself indeed whether you are talking form ground breaking 3d animation or content cyber hippie wetdream decor cameron s visual and technological rhetoric is impossible to disentangle from hallucinogenic experience indeed avatar together with tim burton s alice in wonderland released three months later seemed to portend a new dawn in 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