MIND ENHANCERS AND DELUSIONS RANGING FROM COFFEE TO DMT
First psychedelic vinyl cover ever
Mainstream modern society discovered psychedelia by Albert Hoffman and Gordon Wasson in the fifties along with psychologists, Aldous Huxley, the natural boys of California the precursors of the hippies and by the Beatles in the sixties. You should add the influence from “Le club de hachischins” mid 1800 in France. Traces of knowledge and usage though can be found dating back to the Scytes of southern Russia, shamans throughout the world including South America, or if you read between the lines all back to ancient India or perhaps to the Egyptians. Rome and Greece mixed various drugs manily opium but also others in their wine.
The usage of mind altering drugs through out history has been a curse and a blessing, a delicate tightrope to walk. The benefits for modern medicin are obvious.
Opium and alchohol was the main pain killer up until nineteen hundred.
But apart from mind altering alchohol the suggestive substances has been always been in doubt.
To be continued…