Ed Prideaux

6 days ago | salon.com | James Penner |Ed Prideaux

In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the converted barn's main room, Elizabethan ballads drifted through smoke-thick air as someone scattered chrysanthemum petals across a sheepskin rug. The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner |Tom Morgan |Ed Prideaux |Chuck Lynd

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2 months ago | newstatesman.com | Ed Prideaux

When a mother spikes their emotionally disturbed child with large quantities of class-A drugs, the response is not often sympathetic. Yet Paul Stamets – a fungus expert and wildly popular psychedelics advocate who is fond of appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast wearing a mushroom hat – is choked with emotion when telling the story, which he received via anonymous email, and recalled following a question about the possible role of psychedelics in paediatric medicine.

Feb 23, 2024 | beiner.substack.com | Ed Prideaux

This is a suitably dark and insightful guest piece by journalist Ed Prideaux, which *contains spoilers* for the first season of ‘True Detective’. In other news, there are just a handful of places left on my Embodied Sensemaking training. For any Dutch readers, Erik Davis is running a unique seminar on psychedelic history at the University of Amsterdam this summer. Also, my friends at Perspectiva recently launched a great film about their ‘Antidebate’ process.

Jan 25, 2024 | ecstaticintegration.org | Ed Prideaux

You go to a psychedelic therapy clinic for depression. You have a powerful experience which fundamentally alters your view of reality. This is turn alters your sense of self and liberates you from your claustrophobic and anxious ego. You want to make sense of your new worldview, to see if it’s believable in the cold light of day. Some time after the trip, your therapist offers you a Metaphysical Menu, listing some of the philosophical options available to you to frame your trip.