Thank you!

I don’t get the reference. I understand that’s Quine and Thirty Rock, but what does it mean?

Hahaha - very good!

I’m trying to imagine partially English philosophers. What do you mean? Tell me more!

Pragmatist philosophers are neither analytic, nor continental philosophers.

Idea for an article on why and how psychedelics are intimately bound up with socialism and Canadian universal healthcare. It began in Weyburn, Saskatchewan under Tommy Douglas’ CCF government.

Hey @mattpolprof.bsky.social - do you think this would be something that @liberalcurrents.com or @jacobinmag.bsky.social might be interested in?Not really sure where I should pitch something like this.

Where should I pitch my idea for an article on why and how psychedelics are intimately bound up with socialism and Canadian universal healthcare?

albert hofmann 1943 - a bicycle trip (2009) YouTube video by Philo

Happy Bicycle Day to all those that celebrate! youtu.be/HBOPFWmZCdM?...

Thanks!

What book?

gettyimages Humphry Osmond John Smythies Abram Hoffer

Megamind assemble! #psychedelic #psychotomimetic #alcoholism #schizophrenia

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The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond PSYCHEDELIC CO PROPHETS Edited by Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton, and James W. Spisak

Box 1056 Weyburn, Sask. Early April 195632 My Dear Aldous, To fathom Hell or go angelic Just take a pinch of PSYCHEDELIC. (Delos, to manifest) I like phanerothymes. I suggest we discuss which to push for before the engagement. I have booked at the Buckingham, I trust successfully, and should see you on the night of Wednesday Irt. I shall call you provided I don't get in too late. We might decide to turn my whole address into rhyming couplets. It would be arresting. I hope to get another cotton and dacron suit, the one we bought together was a great success. Very useful in hot weather. The paper is completed and I think that it is a decent job. I wonder how the pearls will be received? Still we can only see. I have also finished my prologue and epilogue to The Twentieth Century Mental Health number and my talk on Kruschen and Company which I'm giving in Toronto on the cBc. Jane has typed nobly and tomorrow night I start East on a series of fairly improbable adventures. Keenly looking forward to seeing you and Laura. Give my love to Gerald. I shall send copies of the paper to you both if I can get enough 32 The letter is not dated but was clearly written after 30 March and shortly before Osmond left Weyburn on 9 or Io April.

To fathom Hell or go angelic Just take a pinch of PSYCHEDELIC. (Delos, to manifest) I like phanerothymes. I suggest we discuss which to push for before the engagement. I have booked at the Buckingham, I trust successfully, and should see you on the night of Wednesday IIt. I shall call you provided I don't get in too late. We might decide to turn my whole address into rhyming couplets. It would be arresting. I hope to get another cotton and dacron suit, the one we bought together was a great success. Very useful in hot weather. The paper is completed and I think that it is a decent job. I wonder how the pearls will be received? Still we can only see. I have also finished my prologue and epilogue to The Twentieth Century Mental Health number and my talk on Kruschen and Company which I'm giving in Toronto on the cBc. Jane has typed nobly and tomorrow night I start East on a series of fairly improbable adventures. Keenly looking forward to seeing you and Laura. Give my love to Gerald. I shall send copies of the paper to you both if I can get enough 32 The letter is not dated but was clearly written after 30 March and shortly before Osmond left Weyburn on 9 or 1o April. 268 Psychedelic Prophets typed (not by Jane). Our research secretary is gifted, but not in typing. I think she once worked for the F.B.I. which may account for some of the oddities of that organisation. Affectionately, Humphry

70 years of ‘psychedelic’ this month. • It was April 1956 when Humphry Osmond, writing from his home in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada, coined the term ‘psychedelic’ in a letter to Aldous Huxley. The term & its concept forever altered minds & thinking regarding human psychology.

Mescaline and Schizophrenia

Letters from RD Laing, Humphry Osmond & John Smythies about conversion experience and mescaline on the same page of the British Medical Journal, September 8th, 1951. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Finally, something feels real!

Indeed!

Hitting bottom also means arriving at solid ground.

13 days!!

Obituary: Humphry Osmond Countering schizophrenia with vitamins.

Humphry Osmond & Abram Hoffer never gave up completely on the adrenochrome hypothesis, that schizophrenia was caused by autotoxicity from the adrenalin metabolite, which lead to their experimentations with psychedelics. | Osmond obit by Hoffer www.theguardian.com/society/2004...

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully. - Humphry Osmond — AZ QUOTES

I will be talking about Humphry Osmond, the deconstruction of madness, and its reconstruction in the concept of psychedelics at the Mad Pasts & Mad Presence Conference at the University of Victoria from April 28th - 29th. Registration is free: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mad-pasts-...

Kyle Gann - Andromeda Memories (Hyperchromatica 2015) [Microtonal Piano] YouTube video by Lynn Murphy

Really in love with Kyle Gann’s hyperchromatic note system - Andromeda Memories (Hyperchromatica 2015) [Microtonal Piano] youtu.be/GILViNRd6Es?...

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully. - Humphry Osmond — AZ QUOTES

I will be talking about Humphry Osmond, the deconstruction of madness, and its reconstruction in the concept of psychedelics at the Mad Pasts & Mad Presence Conference at the University of Victoria from April 28th - 29th. Registration is free: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mad-pasts-...

Triumph of the therapeutic

I heartily endorse listening to every episode of Jason Bailey & Michael Hull’s current podcast Guide for the Film Fanatic, followed by listening to every episode of their previous podcast A Very Good Year, and finally topping it off with the their first series Fun City Cinema. Great guests & gab!

Incredible news about Hungary and a blow for the far right globally!

Amazing!

What knowledge do we gain when we psychoanalyse politics? For Fanon, it is that colonialism is a mutilating madness for colonist and colon-ised alike, one that can only be overcome through a redirection of colonialism's violence against its perpetrators and their 'en-tire moral and material universe. It follows that decolonisation, as a release of the colonised subjects' repressed desire to take the colonist's place, is at once a progressive moment in a world-historical dialectic and replete with dangers: of ethnonational-ism, regressive traditionalism and elite capt-ure. For Shulamith Firestone, Freud corrects Marx, revealing that the root cause of all oppression (economic, political, racial, sex-ual) is 'the biological family - the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled. In turn we come to know, Firestone says, that we require 'a sexual revolution much larger than ... a socialist one to truly eradicate all class systems.

My bad, here you go:

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This is still one of the best treatments of this sort of thing that I’ve read and more relevant than ever IMO: www.amazon.ca/Whats-Left-R...

Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)

Here you go. A friend sent it to me.