Psychedelic Press
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Publisher of psychedelic writing and other literary treats since 2008 | Substack: http://tinyurl.com/hh4z8x26 Books: psychedelicpress.co.uk
Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
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"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
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November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/microcosms
"As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/microcosms
"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne
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October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne
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"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale."
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October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale."
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"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne
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Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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September 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne
Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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Learn more about Trip Sitting here:
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'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality'
- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality'
- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
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- Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below)
Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out!
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick
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September 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick
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Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today!
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
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Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys.
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out tomorrow!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out tomorrow!
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Wahoo! ❤️👀🤩
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
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Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
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August 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wahoo! ❤️👀🤩
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived
Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social
Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Just learned that Alston Hughes - aka Smiles - had died - RIP my friend, a life well-lived ❤️
August 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Just learned that Alston Hughes - aka Smiles - had died - RIP my friend, a life well-lived ❤️
Great article exploring a Huxley family trip by James L Penner:
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August 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Great article exploring a Huxley family trip by James L Penner:
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Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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July 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
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Very pleased to announce our new forthcoming book...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
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Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
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July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Very pleased to announce our new forthcoming book...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne 🥳
More info & pre-orders here:
psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...
Nice interview with Andy Roberts, author of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, via @internationaltimes.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nice interview with Andy Roberts, author of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, via @internationaltimes.bsky.social
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Acid Dialectics' by Vincent Rado - a very engaging and thoughtful book. Our review is available here:
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July 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Acid Dialectics' by Vincent Rado - a very engaging and thoughtful book. Our review is available here:
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“They really did share this belief in psychedelics as a way to augment the psyche, heal the world. ‘True belief’ really enabled that behavior, but ‘ego inflation’ actually got in their way” - Susannah Cahalan
Interview by James Penner
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Interview by James Penner
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June 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“They really did share this belief in psychedelics as a way to augment the psyche, heal the world. ‘True belief’ really enabled that behavior, but ‘ego inflation’ actually got in their way” - Susannah Cahalan
Interview by James Penner
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Interview by James Penner
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'I am so glad I took LSD' - Dr Sue Blackmore
Read more here:
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Read more here:
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June 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'I am so glad I took LSD' - Dr Sue Blackmore
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Read more here:
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Andy Roberts' Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s.
Out now!
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Out now!
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May 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Andy Roberts' Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s.
Out now!
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Out now!
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William 'Ubi' Dwyer was an anarchist, psychedelicist & festival organiser who steered acid anarchism in the UK.
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
May 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
William 'Ubi' Dwyer was an anarchist, psychedelicist & festival organiser who steered acid anarchism in the UK.
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
"LSD is no escape from reality. As an intensifier of experience LSD brings one into more direct confrontation with the world."
Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmf8xtj
Big thanks to Vince Rado for sending this - I'm looking forward to tucking into this book very soon ❤️⬇️
May 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Big thanks to Vince Rado for sending this - I'm looking forward to tucking into this book very soon ❤️⬇️
"The wonderful thing Rob gives us are the real persons and movements that would otherwise be lost to the grand myths that forge narratives"
- @petersjostedth.bsky.social on Cobweb of Trips: A literary history of psychedelics by Robert Dickins
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May 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"The wonderful thing Rob gives us are the real persons and movements that would otherwise be lost to the grand myths that forge narratives"
- @petersjostedth.bsky.social on Cobweb of Trips: A literary history of psychedelics by Robert Dickins
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- @petersjostedth.bsky.social on Cobweb of Trips: A literary history of psychedelics by Robert Dickins
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Very pleased to feature this interview with @zachleary.bsky.social in our latest Substack - he discusses his new book, sustainability and mystical transformation. Interviewed by @stephprice.bsky.social 💞📖
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Link in bio, or
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May 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Very pleased to feature this interview with @zachleary.bsky.social in our latest Substack - he discusses his new book, sustainability and mystical transformation. Interviewed by @stephprice.bsky.social 💞📖
Link in bio, or
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/leary-your...
Link in bio, or
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Was kindly given this book by the authors at Breaking Convention
- Psychedelic-Assisted EMDR Therapy: A Memory Consolidation Approach to Psychedelic Healing by Hannah Raine-Smith & Jocelyn Rose -
Review coming soon to Psypress ❤️📖
- Psychedelic-Assisted EMDR Therapy: A Memory Consolidation Approach to Psychedelic Healing by Hannah Raine-Smith & Jocelyn Rose -
Review coming soon to Psypress ❤️📖
May 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Was kindly given this book by the authors at Breaking Convention
- Psychedelic-Assisted EMDR Therapy: A Memory Consolidation Approach to Psychedelic Healing by Hannah Raine-Smith & Jocelyn Rose -
Review coming soon to Psypress ❤️📖
- Psychedelic-Assisted EMDR Therapy: A Memory Consolidation Approach to Psychedelic Healing by Hannah Raine-Smith & Jocelyn Rose -
Review coming soon to Psypress ❤️📖
Very happy we started doing ltd. hardback runs of our publications a few years ago - starting to get a classic psy collection of history, philosophy and literature together 😍
Big love to all our authors, and everyone who supports us🙏
Big love to all our authors, and everyone who supports us🙏
May 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Very happy we started doing ltd. hardback runs of our publications a few years ago - starting to get a classic psy collection of history, philosophy and literature together 😍
Big love to all our authors, and everyone who supports us🙏
Big love to all our authors, and everyone who supports us🙏
Only 12 Ltd. hardback copies of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of L£D in Britain (revised edition) by Andy Roberts left. Get yours here ⬇️
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April 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Only 12 Ltd. hardback copies of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of L£D in Britain (revised edition) by Andy Roberts left. Get yours here ⬇️
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