🚨ONLINE EVENT | 3 September, 2026 Getting Higher: Psychedelic Ceremonies through Time & Culture Join author, psychonaut and occultist Julian Vayne for a fascinating journey through the history and practice of psychedelic ritual. ➡️ dandelion.events/e/p4hlp

Fierce Chemistry is a fabulous history of the d**g wars in Britain, written by Harry Shapiro - it went largely unnoticed when it came out in 2021, but definitely deserves a read for anyone interested in this topic. Excellent book ❤️📖🙏

Very sad to announce that Nikki Wyrd - our dear friend, editorial maestro and fellow mischief-maker has died. Nikki was Editor of our journal, and nearly everything we've published has had her masterful eye checking it. Thank you for your love and friendship. RIP Nikki ❤️❤️

Robert Dickins is speaking at The Last Tuesday Society [online] about the history of magic mushrooms in Britain this September... tickets below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magic-mush...

From our collection - 1st edition of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Storming Heaven. With an amazing cover image by @steadmanart.bsky.social One of the earliest histories dealing with the 20th century's most iconic substances...

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) by John M Allegro. Controversial for arguing that Christianity has its roots in an ancient, mushroom using fertility cult. I'm speaking on a panel about it at @fungifestival.bsky.social this September - I wonder if people will be familiar with it?

Our review of Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experiences (2025) by Danny Forde... psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psychedeli...

Delighted to announce the publication of Wyld of the Woodling by William Rowlandson🤩 A wonderful, tricksy work of nature writing set against a pilgrimage to Canterbury, Will delves deeply into the language of ecology and its meaning in the modern world. psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/wyl...

"Weirdness is what lies under conditioned behaviour... Poetry, which appeals to emotion rather than reason, embraces the full weirdness of the psychedelic state" - Leonie Rowland psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/ineffable-...

Our new publication is out later this month... Wyld of the Woodling by Dr William Rowlandson is a weird and wayward wander, exploring the meaning of wildness, wilderness, wilding and rewilding, and the ancient tension between civilisation and the wild... psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/wyl...

Fascinating new essay up on our Substack by @hawksmoormusic.bsky.social about the psychedelic music of Terry Riley... psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/what-makes...

❤️📖➡️ "Holding space is an ancient art that takes many forms. The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - author Julian Vayne psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

A lovely review by Mike Fiorito of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons... 🙏❤️📖 psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/psi...

"At some point during his tenure with Stark in Paris, Kemp created what was to become the infamous ‘brown acid’ distributed at the 1969 Woodstock festival." - Andy Roberts psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/acid-chemi...

For Bristol folk and beyond, author Robert Dickins is giving a talk next month on the history of Bemushroomed Britons for The Psychedelic Society... come along! dandelion.events/e/y0p4g

Some lovely reviews of Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne starting to appear in the wild.... psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

Our review of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by @gmantic.bsky.social psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/terence-mc...

Lovely first review of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons on Amazon...

🥳Delighted to announce the publication of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Dr Robert Dickins - out now! ❤️📖 Includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher. More details & orders here: psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/psi...

Excited to read this new book by @dannytheforde - review coming soon to our Substack ❤️📖

Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White "As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own." psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/microcosms

"These strange, magical spirits, long banished from our lives, have the potential to become some of our greatest allies if we can develop a good relationship with them" - From Trip Sitting by Julian Vayne psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

"All trips start before they have begun and continue long after they have ended. Even the first sign of psychedelic awareness is the symptom of a subconscious event set in motion at an earlier point on a subtler sentient scale." psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/mycelia-pl...

"Holding psychǝdelic space is an ancient art that takes many forms, The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - Julian Vayne Learn more about Trip Sitting here: psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

'A psilocybin journey can help us tune into the sacred (however we understand it). Nourish our soul. Help us make meaning in the world, and accept out mortality' - Julian Vayne, Trip Sitting (book details below) Thanks Beckley Foundation for the shout out! psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

"P£ychedelics... force us to acknowledge that the human mind is at root a metaphysical subject. If we are surprised by this, it is only because we are not typically aware of our metaphysical assumptions" - Tim Hardwick psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/gonzo-meta...

Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne is out today! Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

Wahoo! ❤️👀🤩 Printed copies of Trip Sitting: The Art & Science of Holding PƧychedelic Space by Julian Vayne have arrived Includes a Foreword by @bellevuedoc.bsky.social Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order exclusively through us: psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/tri...

Just learned that Alston Hughes - aka Smiles - had died - RIP my friend, a life well-lived ❤️

Great article exploring a Huxley family trip by James L Penner: psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/huxley-fam...