A film inspired by the woodland acid trip sequences in the memoir 'The Mad Artist: Psychonautic Adventures in the 1970s'. Shot in the actual location of one of the trips, it replicates the unique primal intensity of woodland tripping, using extensive muti-layered video effects and complementary sound design.

Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD, died in 2008 aged 102. This book, which he saw in proof form shortly before his death, has consequently become a posthumous tribute to the man, celebrating his life, work and influence.

What do you do if you’ve undergone a profound, like-changing mystical revelation and you want to articulate it in a way that’s workable, comprehensible and will make people take you seriously and not simply dismiss you as a headcase? Unless you already have an appropriate platform in place, it’s not an easy one.

It’s been a long time since I read a book that has held so much personal significance for me as Andy Roberts’ Albion Dreaming, which with great enthusiasm and obvious love for the subject matter, relates the specifics of how LSD tripped out British culture—a story as least as interesting as its American counterpart, featured in works such as Storming Heaven and Acid Dreams.

Here in Britain it’s the morning after the night before, and as widely expected we are well into hung parliament territory, with the distribution of seats making it very unclear as to who will form the next government. The opposition Conservatives are the largest party, but well short of having an overall majority.

I first got into Castaneda in the mid-’70s, when Tales of Power was his latest and he was a huge inspirational figure to the psychedelic movement, but at the same time was coming under attack on the grounds that his anthropological fieldwork was a tissue of fiction.