Welcome to Growing Up Psychedelic, where I will explore further themes and issues from my book of the same title, which examines psychedelic experience through the lens of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy or spiritual science.
It will also include general observations about the psychedelic renaissance, the anthroposophical movement insofar as it relates, and thoughts and discussions about the intersect of these two realms of soul exploration and development.
Some AI hallucinations: tripping happily in a graphic novel
For a brief day or two during the genesis of Growing Up Psychedelic, I contemplated the possibility of creating it as a graphic novel. Other than a childhood deeply immersed in the silver age of Marvel comics, it’s not a genre I have much of a connection to. The idea came and went. Just the…
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Flying High? A cautionary tale.
I’m writing (and posting) this at an altitude upwards of 30,000 feet. I’m on a San Francisco-bound Alaska Airlines flight. As I drove to JFK this morning, on a phone call with my wife (who had flown home to California two days earlier, also on Alaska), she gave me first tidings of the attempted sabotage…
Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – what does it mean?
Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out (or sometimes, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.) This mantra of Timothy Leary’s was splashed across the psychedelic sixties. It was taken up as an anti-establishment slogan, suggesting that one drop out of the establishment, go back to nature, live the outlaw life, and so on. Recovering the finer…
Like eating candy with the wrapper still on?
This nugget from what is a more or less typical story about the investment in psychedelic tech by would-be psychedelic pharma companies: “… So biotech firms are already working on next generation psychedelics, which aim to either shorten the trip time, or cut out the mystical, hallucinogenic part altogether.” So much packed in here, aside…
Psychedelics, Karma, and Trauma: Burning Man Musings
I’m just back from Burning Man 2023, which may provoke a few posts as I continue processing the event. I was a volunteer sitter with Zendo, and camped at ZenZoo along with sixty or seventy other Zendo volunteers, all wonderful and interesting people. One conversation started with a discussion of the healing of trauma that…
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