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A component found in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, helped heavy drinkers cut back on drinking ā or quit entirely, new extensive research on the component has shown. Read more
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Jon Hopkins Unveils Psychedelic Art Installation Called “Dreamachine”
Grammy and Mercury-nominated composer Jon Hopkins has soundtracked a touring art installation called “Dreamachine” that induces hallucinations and tripping in the minds of its viewers.
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An extraordinary but little-known 1959 invention by artist and inventor Brion Gysin inspired Dreamachine. His experimental homemade device used flickering light to create vivid illusions, kaleidoscopic patterns and explosions of color within the mind.
Gysin envisioned that his invention would replace televisions. Instead of passive consumers of mass-produced media, viewers of his Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences.
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Jon Hopkins and his team of neuroscientists, architects and philosophers have breathed new life into Gysin’s invention. Similar to Hopkins’s latest work, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, this new project uses ambient music from the artist as a soundtrack to the experience, which researchers called “stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations.”
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Dreamachine will be touring the UK beginning this spring with more info here.
Colorado Might Be the Next State to Decriminalize āMagicā Mushrooms
It wasnāt just the painful tumors or medication that made Alan Floyd sick.Ā It was the idea that death could come at any time, a brutal fact of his condition that came to dominate his days and grew into night terrors during his sleep.
āIt was this monstrous, impending doom of death hanging over me,ā Floyd said.
But Floyd found a way to interrupt the cycle of rumination and fear by experimenting with āmagicā mushrooms. Heās one of many patients and spiritual seekers in Colorado who have sought healing and relief from mushrooms and other psychedelic substances, despite a federal prohibition.
Although recent research showing the healing potential of these drugs hasĀ spurred renewed interest, mushrooms and naturally derived psychedelics like mescaline, ibogaine, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, have been used by people for centuries. Itās only in the past 50 years that they were considered illegal.
