Keeping it surreal and taking it back to the home of Dada I'll be heading to the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich to speak at The Psychedelic Salon on 'Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience' on Thursday, 9 April 2026, 6 - 9 pm
www.cabaretvoltaire.ch#node-127897-en
Ever dreamed the future?
We are launching a new study experimentally exploring the phenomena of precognitive #dreams under controlled conditions and are looking for lucid and non-lucid dreamers to take part.. from the comfort of your own bed.
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Feeling very privileged to be part of the structured Afterlight psilocybin retreat here in the very beautiful nature of Negril, and featured in the Jamaica Gleaner along with lead psychologist Dr. Crystyn Scott. Such an extraordinary team here doing great work.
jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...
Ecodelia and the lost art of lichenthropy - On becoming fungus on acid and on being publicly ridiculed by grass on Salvia
My latest Substack exploring the psychedelic experiences leading folk to connect & communicate with, or transform into other species
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New podcast interview with Haley Dourron at Furthure on ‘Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond’ for all the latest on the far out and freaky end of the spectrum psychedelic experiences..
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What I also find weird is that commercially grown roses have been selectively bred for their appearance as to often make them sterile, which makes it a pretty weird symbol of love!
Pleased to be joining counselling psychologist Dr Crystyn Scott & team at the Afterlight psilocybin retreat in Jamaica next month to offer guidance & support.
Afterlight are committed to helping islanders recover following Hurricane Melissa. A few spaces left
www.afterlightretreats.com/experience
Putting the psi back into psilocybin - On psychedelomancy & exceptional psychedelic experiences
Latest Substack, exploring the paranormal experiences of the original pioneers of psychedelic science in the 50s & 60s on their initial altered excursions!
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.. and then over to yours for a tropane truffle party..
aye aye say I with me one good eye! 🏴☠️
There is defo a sizeable hint of this at the very least, as they tend to be the open eye 'true hallucination' type so beloved of tropane alkaloids, i.e., anticholinergic. The waking dream.
thanks!
There's been a lot of discussion recently about a non-psilocybin 'magic mushroom' from China that induces encounters with small armies of little people.
I took a longer look under the tablecloth to see what all the fuss was about..
davidluke543044.substack.com/p/so-long-as...
There's been a lot of discussion recently about a non-psilocybin 'magic mushroom' from China that induces encounters with small armies of little people.
I took a longer look under the tablecloth to see what all the fuss was about..
davidluke543044.substack.com/p/so-long-as...
oh 'that' acid...
Also as Steve notes, the 'open' eye visuals is interesting. But i have to say, I also saw very little people marching through our yurt once with my eyes open on ayahuasca (which contains DMT), although this isn't especially common. I'm actually going to post up that story next week.
'zactly, people see a lot of little people on DMT. Whatever is in those shrooms is doing something similar, it might even be working on similar receptors. I never said it had DMT in it, but it is worthwhile observing the similarities, ..and differences.
..and what is the active chemical then...? ;0)
And yet people were having visions of 'little people' (dwarves, elves, etc) on DMT from the very first obscure trip reports, before McKenna started raving about it, so that does not add up either. www.academia.edu/12936124/DMT...
'Dream yoga on the high seas - On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy.' My latest post on Substack, exploring the very body, mind and soul of pirates, and, well, everyone really.
davidluke543044.substack.com/p/dream-yoga...
Image 'The Call' - Remedios Varo
You've undoubtedly heard of apparently precognitive dreams, or possibly had one. You may've even heard of the 'law of large numbers' as an explanation. But have you heard of the 'law of at large slumbers'?
New substack about my Popular Mechanics interview
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My latest post on Substack, where I whine about Wikipedia, fail to coin a new psychological term, find myself sceptical about organised skepticism, but end up very much admiring some abstract art.. in..
The Battle of Portmanteau
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Following on from my interview with @matthabusby.bsky.social
for DoubleBlind last week I've further extended some of those insights into the highly speculative psychedelic origins of (or contributions to) language evolution into a new Substack post -
davidluke543044.substack.com/p/reawakenin...
Excited that Breaking Convention, the UK's largest & oldest (& arguably best) psychedelic research conference, is returning to SE London in 2026 at the next door wich to Greenwich. Woolwich. I guess any old wich will do so long as you know which wich is which. See you there? breakingconvention.co.uk
Some suggestion from this interesting new research that 'couples who trip together, stick together' - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Had a great day listening to Max Cooper's incredible music through the 360 multilayered immersive sound installation at the University of Greenwich Immersive Lab with Max & a fantastic crew of fellow audionauts as part of my PhD student Viviana Caros project into audio ASCs & spiritual experience.
The serpent's tale of the original medical staff - Hippocrates and the therapeutēs
On altered states, visionary experience and healing in ancient Greece, the Amazon and my back garden
My latest substack:
davidluke543044.substack.com/p/the-serpen...
