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James Kent
Sent:
Monday, December 15, 2003 11:37 AM
To:
tripzine yahoogroup
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[tripzine] Trip Magazine, Important News
Hi
everyone,
I know
this yahoo list is supposed to be cancelled but we are having trouble with our
new mailing list server, so we are back to yahoo at least for the time being.
This
message is to inform you all that Trip Magazine will no longer be publishing.
After years of putting out the best magazine we could and seeing little or no
returns from it we have decided to call it quits. With a market as small as the
psychedelic community is, the paper & newsstand model is just not working
for us, so instead of plunging ourselves into debt we have decided cut the mass
publishing portion out of our venture and overhaul our business model to better
serve our market.
With that
said, we will be printing a very limited run of our LAST official issue of Trip
for paid subscribers only. If you are not a paid subscriber you may order an
advanced copy of issue 10 from our website now, at http://tripzine.com. If you
are a paid subscriber you will be receiving a notice with your last issue
giving you various options on how to get credit, a subscription transfer to
another publication, or a refund on future issues that have already been paid
for. These options will be sorted out in the coming weeks, so instead of
inundating us with e-mails please check our website after the first of the year
for more details on what to expect.
Shutting
down Trip was a difficult decision because we know how much it means to so many
people, but once we have sorted through our outstanding obligations to paid
subscribers we will be investing some serious time and thought into how we may
evolve into the future, and continue to generate the kind of content you have
come to enjoy so much while still keeping our bottom line at a reasonable
level. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we move into our next
phase, and hope to have more pleasant surprises for you in the years to come.
Thanks and
best wishes for the holidays,
James Kent
http://tripzine.com
James Kent
wrote:
>Trip
9, Spring 2003, will be shipping within the next few days. If you need to
update your address or resubscribe, now's the time to do it! We've got a great
issue featuring DJ Spooky, Negativland, articles on Psychedelic Activism, and
much more. For full details on the contents of our new issue please visit
http://tripzine.com.
Trip Ten
is in production and due out soon. It
includes:
Interview
with the Afro Celts
Hakim
Bey on sacramental hemp
Earth
Erowid on drug geeks
Erik
Davis on "Ricaurtegate"
Mark
Pesce on speed
The Bad
Shaman on psychoactive insects
The
future of brain-computer interfaces
An
entheogenic tour of India
A look
at the world of blotter art
Reviews,
humor, and more.
http://tripzine.com
Tripping
De-Light Fantastic
Are
psychedelic drugs good for you?
By John
Horgan
Posted
Wednesday, May 7, 2003
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082647
A year
ago, hoping to dispel the postpartum gloom that had gripped me after I finished
writing a book, I hiked into a forest near my home and pitched a tent under
some pine trees. I spent that day and evening listening to the forest,
scribbling in my journal, and thinking—all while under the influence of a
psychedelic drug. The next morning I returned to my wife and children feeling
better than I had in months.
What I did
that day should not be illegal. Adults seeking solace or insight ought to be
allowed to consume psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline. U.S.
laws now classify them as Schedule 1 drugs, banned for all purposes because of
their health risks. But recent studies have shown that psychedelics—which more
than 20 million Americans have ingested—can be harmless and even beneficial
when taken under appropriate circumstances.
Citing
this research, some scholars and scientists are proposing that the prohibitions
against psychedelics—or entheogens, "God engenderers," as believers
in their spiritual benefits prefer to call them—should be reconsidered. This
legal issue has recently been brought to a head by a religious sect in New
Mexico that is suing the United States for the right to drink a hallucinogenic
tea called ayahuasca in its ceremonies. A federal court is expected to rule on
the potentially momentous case any day now.
...
From:
bruce/mindmedia, http://www.island.org
Sent:
Saturday, May 31, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject:
ISLAND VIEWS ELECTROZINE No.21
[excerpts]
I enjoy
walking a kind of writing tightrope where I begin an essay and write the rest
in an installment basis. I wrote one of my favorite essays, Why We Get High
that way. Creating a Psychedelic Community and Culture is another of these
typed ropes -- but this time I slipped a bit.
I promised
that I would complete the essay this month. I have to admit that I had a hard
time completing it due to my own personal despair about the movement I am
writing about. Hopefully this feeling will pass.
So instead
of the essay, I continue my series about my favorite spots on the web. Look for
the third installment of Creating a Psychedelic Community and Culture coming up
in the June issue of Island Views Electrozine.
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MIND
EXPANDING WEBSITES WORTH A VISIT
Tripping
the Light Fantastic
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082647
Author
John Horgan asks the question
"Are
psychedelic drugs good for you?" and while his answer may or may not
surprise you, the fact that Slate, the opinion section of MSN allowed this
piece to be published did surprise me.
The
Searcher http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-
dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A45396-2003Apr17¬Found=true
A review
of the new biography -- Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual' by Nicholas
Murray. The review makes the book sound inviting.
http://www.google.com/search?q=review+%22Aldous+Huxley%22+%22English+intellectual%22+%22Nicholas+Murray%22
Documents
on Al Hubbard: The Johnny Appleseed of LSD
http://www.thememoryhole.org/hubbard/
Trip
Magazine http://www.tripzine.com/ I just went out and bought 85 copies of the
last four issues of this magazine to send to all Island Foundation Patron and
Supporting Members. Put out by James Kent, the former editor of Psychedelic
Illuminations, this contains a lot of recent musings on a subject close to my
heart.
http://www.entheomedia.org/Entheos_Issue_3.htm
This
journal continues to give me hope for justifying the maximal-influence theory
of the entheogen origin of religions -- that the bottom line is, religions are
"really" about entheogen experiencing, despite the massive dominance
of non-entheogen assumptions. Even if
the vast majority of practiced religion is something else, some deviance or irrelevant
goings-on, the religion that really makes sense and rings true is the
entheogenic version.
Paradigm
change requires a sensibility toward evidence and reasoning that is immune to
sheer numbers. If 99 people think
religion is about ethics or the supernatural, and 1 person thinks it's about
entheogen experiencing mythically encoded, I'd agree with the 1 person. So a two-level view, a kind of elitism, is
helpful. There is lower and higher
religion. Higher religion is
entheogenic religion; non-entheogenic religion is lower religion.
Putting aside
the considerations of the ersatz Prohibition gravy-train, I hold with McKenna
that most non-entheogenic approaches to religious experiencing are actually a
way of evading religious experiencing -- a safe watered-down and overly
domesticated substitute, because of their great inconvenience and
unreliability.
Entheos
Issue 3: Soma (Part 1 of 2)
Contents
Entheos:
The Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality,
Vol. 2,
Issue 1, Summer, 2002
A Letter
of R.G. Wasson, Easter, 1965
The
Mushroom Gods of Ancient India
Clark
Heinrich
The
Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras
Mark
Hoffman, Carl A.P. Ruck & Blaise Staples
Visit an
online gallery of ancillary illustrations (coming soon!)
Download
Footnotes in MS Word
Sidebar:
Menhirs
Sidebar:
Etymological Considerations by H. W. Bailey
Sidebar:
Linguistic Interlude by R.G. Wasson
Coda:
Under the Same Cap: Attis
Freemasonry
and the Survival of the Eucharistic Brotherhoods
Mark
Hoffman, Carl A.P. Ruck
Visit
The full article online!
Psychointegrators:
The Physiological Effects of Entheogens
Michael
Winkelman
Two
Paintings by J.W.M Turner: An Entheobotanical Interpretation
Vincent
Wattiaux
Addendum:
Turner’s Vision of Medea
Mark
Hoffman and Carl A.P. Ruck
The Lote
Tree of the Furthest Boundry: Psychoactive Sacraments in Islamic Gnosis
Alan
Piper
In
Memoriam: The Spirit of Bob Wallace
Rick
Doblin, Maggie Hall, Tom Roberts
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