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ACID DROPS: ADVENTURES IN PSYCHEDELIA
Acid Drops is a collection of essays, interviews, and fiction by renowned historian Andy Roberts, author of Albion A Popular History of LSD in Britain. Historical articles on the banning of LSD in Britain and Welsh Psilocybin festivals, are coupled with intimate interviews with such figures as LSD chemist Casey Harrison, Jeff Dexter, Andy Munro, and Liz Elliot. As well as being an extraordinary record of British psychedelic culture over the last sixty years, the book is a very frank account of the author's personal experiences of LSD and the world of the counterculture. It includes a Foreword by MDMA researcher Dr Ben Sessa, and an Afterword by the occultist Julian Vayne.
246 pages, Paperback
Published May 16, 2016
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May 13, 2021
After reading Andy's "Divine Rascal," a bio of legendary acid distributor and gad-about-globe Michael Hollingsworth, I wanted more and came across this little book. It's a bit of an odds-and-sods affair that brings together some interviews, short essays, a piece of fiction, an enjoyable poem written by one of Andy's friends to describe their elevated encounter with David Kemp's "Scale Green Birdman" sculpture. The piece of short fiction, "Misty Mountain Drop," was exquisite. I took it in after waking up unusually early one morning, around 5am, and this was such a great read -- not least because of the raven encounter the story evokes, and given the lovely pair of Corvids nesting near our house that come bathe in a birdbath on our upstair's deck. I'd love my wife and I to get to take flight as that pair for a day! I also loved the section on synchronicity and little yellow duck toys. What a perfect experiment to encounter the mystery and sense of humor that permeates the universe! Moreover, since some of my fondest synchronicity experiences have revolved around the number 23, I was delighted to realize after the fact that this story occupied ... Chapter 23!!!! Sync, Andy!
This was a super enjoyable book, and I was happy to take my time getting through it. I love Andy's approach to language as much as to psychedelics; he just feels so generous and honest and humble and insightful. Encountering this book when I did has also been immensely helpful in terms of my own current writing project, a book on psychedelic music for MIT Press, specifically in terms of encouraging me to take stock of my own experiences and let them inform my book as well as to relax my writing style, not trying so hard to sound theoretical, but rather to let loose with all the joy of my entanglement with the music I've been exploring and enjoying my whole life (no joke, if we count the Beatles Invasion era artists that I absorbed in utero courtesy of my big sisters' records!). SO, thanks for that, Andy, and bless you very much!
This was a super enjoyable book, and I was happy to take my time getting through it. I love Andy's approach to language as much as to psychedelics; he just feels so generous and honest and humble and insightful. Encountering this book when I did has also been immensely helpful in terms of my own current writing project, a book on psychedelic music for MIT Press, specifically in terms of encouraging me to take stock of my own experiences and let them inform my book as well as to relax my writing style, not trying so hard to sound theoretical, but rather to let loose with all the joy of my entanglement with the music I've been exploring and enjoying my whole life (no joke, if we count the Beatles Invasion era artists that I absorbed in utero courtesy of my big sisters' records!). SO, thanks for that, Andy, and bless you very much!
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