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The Castalians vs the Pranksters

The notoriety of DMT as a perilously mad trip was amplified in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, as author Tom Wolfe related an episode where one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters was administered DMT at Timothy Leary's expansive new digs in Millbrook, New York. It was the summer of 1964.

Is raving a religious experience? (Interview with Graham St John by Jules Evans)

Graham St John has perhaps one of the best jobs in academia. For the last decade, he’s worked as an academic sociologist studying trance music all around the world, from the ‘doofs' of Australia to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.....

Researching the Burning Man Diaspora

After my first encounter with Burning Man in 2003, I grew enthused by its global reach over the subsequent decade. .... That enthusiasm has led to a research project on the Burning Man movement in Europe (survey of EuroBurners open until March 7 2014).

Volution Urban Art Space

post-Rainbow Serpent Music & Art Event at Melbourne's Evolve Gallery

Save Dancecult

Now is your chance to help save our international journal of electronic dance music culture, Dancecult. New perks offered as part of our crowdfunding campaign which ends in less than 8 hours: Discounted Evolver Intensives Courses of your choice.

Dancing in the Cosmic Sweet Spot: Total Solar Eclipse Gatherings

The union of the Sun and the Moon is recurrent in philosophies and myths world-wide. Realms of consciousness hidden to us in our daily lives are perfectly represented by the corona of the Sun in union with the Moon. A total solar eclipse signifies an alchemical exchange of phases of consciousness, a peak psychocultural experience, while a whole new social event has come into being as a highly specialised traveller phenomenon.

Boom Festival 2010: Divine Mothership of Trance

We are at Portugal's Boom Festival. Founded in 1997, the biannual festival has evolved into a sacred site for enthusiasts of psychedelic music, art and culture who have descended upon this lakeside location from around the globe.

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Articles by: Graham St John

The Castalians vs the Pranksters

Is raving a religious experience? (Interview with Graham St John by Jules Evans)

Researching the Burning Man Diaspora

Volution Urban Art Space

Save Dancecult

Dancing in the Cosmic Sweet Spot: Total Solar Eclipse Gatherings

Boom Festival 2010: Divine Mothership of Trance

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