Musical Mania
Believed to be the highest-selling psychedelic album of all time, famous for its use of tape loops, synthesizers, and motifs of entropy/mortality.
What is Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon?"
This 1969 festival known for its "3 days of peace & music," which also had two births and two deaths.
What is Woodstock?
The first person to trip on LSD who would later ride their bicycle home fearing they were dying?
Who is Dr. Albert Hofmann?
Perhaps the most well known psychedelic which is typically disseminated via "blotter papers," gel-tabs, or, as historically dosed, onto sugar cubes with droppers.
What is LSD/Lysergic acid diethylamide?
This alliterative word duo refers to arguably the most important variables in determining the outcome of a psychedelic trip.
What is set and setting?
This experimental instrument, which utilizes analog tapes, was used by The Beatles, among others, in songs such as "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Flying", and "I am the Walrus."
What is the Mellotron?
This famous festival which descended 100,000+ people into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the summer of 1967.
What is the Summer of Love?
The crazed academic/psychologist who "went rogue" and was dubbed "the most dangerous man in America" by President Richard Nixon.
This psychoactive compound derived from "magic mushrooms" arises only after being metabolized by the body and is the source of its famous mind-altering effects.
What is psilocin? (Psilocybin is biologically inert in itself, but the body rapidly converts it to psilocin the psychoactive component.)
The administering of small doses of psychedelic substances for sub-perceptual effects which are said to boost mental health and productivity.
What is micro-dosing?
Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys invited this "hippie guru" and his harem to squat in his California home and would later introduce them to the music industry.
Who is Charles Manson/The Manson Family?
This loose collection of "experiments" ranging from 1960-1962 hosted by academics, graduate students, and other intellectuals, which saw the administering of psilocybin to an array of different people.
What is the Harvard Psilocybin Project?
The dynamic duo responsible for the synthesis, administering, and therapeutic use of a countless duo of cutting-edge "designer" substances.
Who are the Shulgins/Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin?
This psychedelic substance was first discovered in 1912 but would go unused until the late 1970s.
What is MDMA/Ecstasy/Molly/3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine?
This term, coined by US Army Scientists in the 1950s during their experiments with LSD, was used to describe the effects of the substance.
What is tripping?
The person who drugged John Lennon and George Harrison without their consent, with LSD at a dinner party, making them the first Beatles to try it.
Who is the Beatles' dentist/John Riley?
This autobiographical account from 1954 describing perhaps the most famous mescaline trip ever.
What is "The Doors of Perception?"
This Mexican shamanic figure fed, both literally and metaphorically, the knowledge of "magic mushrooms" to countless countercultural scientists, musicians, artists, and etc.
Who is María Sabina?
This psychedelic substance was first synthesized in 1936 and later isolated from natural sources in 1959.
What is 5-MeO-DMT/methylbufotenin/mebufotenin?
This variety of LSD, synthesized by the Grateful Dead's audio engineer Owsley Stanley, was said to be 99.9% pure despite being made in a clandestine lab in a bathroom.
What is "White Lightning" LSD?
The coiners of the phrase "psychedelic rock."
Who are the 13th Floor Elevators?
This famous text, believed to have been written around 750 CE—which would inspire later psychedelic visionaries due to the interpreted overlap between psychedelic experiences and the text's preparatory role for dying and ultimate liberation.
What is "The Tibetan Book of the Dead/Bardo Thodol?"
This unintentional psychedelic figure synthesized MDMA for the first time in 1912 for the German pharmaceutical company Merck and soon thereafter died during World War I.
Who is Dr. Anton Köllisch?
This type of psilocybin-containing mushrooms is believed to be the strongest discovered variety.
What are psilocybe azurescens/"flying saucer" mushrooms?
This 1950s term, used before the more common word "psychedelic" coined by Dr. Humphry Osmond, referred to substances such as LSD which were thought to mimic symptoms of psychosis.
What are psychotomimetics?