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Building a Modern Eleusis

The Second Psychedelic Revolution is instinctively creating modern mystery schools, and these movable temples of music, dance, and art are the closest things our society has to true portals to transcendence.

Living in Dangerous Times

I consider television, and most recently the development of social media, to be the most powerful mind-control 'drugs' that have yet been developed, with their effectiveness at influencing and controlling docile (and often legally sedated) populations unparalleled in human history.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution, Part Six: A New Earth?

The most practical application of psychedelics is as a tool for examining differentiated states of consciousness, and ultimately for investigating the basis of consciousness itself. This was the promise of psychedelics that first created such tremendous interest within the scientific community before research was effectively banned in the early 1970's.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution, Part Five: A Short Psychedelic History of Humanity

Psychedelic revolutions in various societies —psychedelic "transformations" might be a better term—have been somewhat common throughout mankind’s history, and may prove to have been essential to the development of culture.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part Two: Alexander ‘Sasha’ Shulgin, The Psychedelic Godfather

In a Psychedelic Hall of Fame, the section on chemists would be small; there have only really been two giants in this field — Albert Hoffman, who first synthesized LSD-25 and psilocybin, and Alexander Shulgin, who seems to have invented nearly everything else.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution: Part Four. Alex Grey—The Mystic-Artist.

Alex Grey is the first major psychedelic voice since Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts to return the conversation about psychedelics back onto traditional mystical grounds.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part Three: Terence McKenna, The Rise of the Plant Shaman

In the decade following his death, the focal points of Terence McKenna’s life’s work have become, for better and for worse, something of a blueprint for the rise of a global neo-tribal, techno-shamanic culture.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part One: The End of Acid

The psychedelic movement is now entering a renaissance. How did this psychedelic revolution come about? What are its goals and its ideals? Are they different from the first psychedelic revolution of the 1960’s, or is this just fashion reinventing itself?

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Articles by: James Oroc

Building a Modern Eleusis

Living in Dangerous Times

The Second Psychedelic Revolution, Part Six: A New Earth?

The Second Psychedelic Revolution, Part Five: A Short Psychedelic History of Humanity

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part Two: Alexander ‘Sasha’ Shulgin, The Psychedelic Godfather

The Second Psychedelic Revolution: Part Four. Alex Grey—The Mystic-Artist.

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part Three: Terence McKenna, The Rise of the Plant Shaman

The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part One: The End of Acid

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