MAPS asked me to write something about psychedelics in cinema and television for their new special edition bulletin focusing on psychedelics in popular art, which is currently being mailed out. Due to size constraints, they could only publish an edited and abridged version, which is about 1/3 the length of the full article. The abridged MAPS version focuses on some specific examples of psychedelic drugs’ and culture’s influence on movies and tv, whereas, in the full version I explore a bit more the connections between shamanism, altered states, performing arts and technology (hence, the original title: ‘A Review of the Reunification of Shamanic Traveling and Cinematic Sojourns’) and begin an attempt to assemble those connections into future-bound trajectories. The full article also includes more detailed reviews and descriptions of various films and shows dealing with psychedelics.

So I encourage you to read the full version here, especially if the topic of films and entertainment media interests you.

• The Art of Reality: 

  A Review of the Reunification of Shamanic Traveling and Cinematic Sojourns

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I also have some essays and articles which I hope to find the time to polish up a bit before publishing them here at Teleomorph.

My material includes some lengthy scientific articles and reviews of psychedelic molecular neurobiology, as well as essays on topics such as

• Tibetan lucid dream yoga
• The rhetoric of evolutionary biology
• The rhetoric of linguistics
• Science, the state and economic metabolism in light of the emerging network technologies
• Kafka and optimism
• Psychedelics and extreme futurism
• and more.

So keep an eye on the Writing section in the main menu above, as well as other areas of this site that are currently being developed.