A very short story, was going to be a full book but ran out of material, the good thing is that you can imagine the rest of the book, and whatever you think is unique to you, there is no wrong... More > imagination of the rest of this book. Something different.< Less
In the 1970s Roger Keen was a young art student, heavily under the influence of surrealism, the Beat movement and the wisdom of the East. Into the mix came LSD, cannabis, magic mushrooms and other... More > drugs, which were seen as enablers in the pursuit of creativity and higher knowledge, fuelling a ‘Quest for the Ultimate’ that pushed out the boundaries of experience to extremes.
This memoir examines those ‘psychonautic adventures’ in fascinating detail, and along the way also tells a more familiar story of youthful excess and exuberance, all set against a colourful background of hippy student life in the West Country, the South of England and London.
In the tradition of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Mad Artist not only explores a fascination with drugs, but also the awesome and sometimes frightening inner metaphysical landscapes through which the user journeys.< Less
Trade paperback coffee-table sized book. This huge thing is a compilation of the very best from the 1971 underground newspaper from San Francisco, THE ORGAN. Over 300 pages of subversive text and... More > pictures that personify the Berkeley of 1971.< Less
Written in the form of a long, psychedelic, near-poem. In The Prison of Concentration the world's only psychedelic detective must attempt to deal with an idea that is striving to become... real.
Trade paperback coffee-table sized book. This huge thing is a compilation of the very best from the 1971 underground newspaper from San Francisco, THE ORGAN. Over 300 pages of subversive text and... More > pictures that personify the Berkeley of 1971.< Less
