PLEASE HELP, SASHA NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Sasha Shulgin, one of the lights of our time, has had a stroke and needs financial help. He’s a lovely man, known to many of us since the 80s when he gave us MDMA, popularly known as Ecstasy, and went on to systematically synthesize and publish a vast catalog of entheogenic substances. I’ve thought that if you put Ecstasy in the drinking water, even a one-time exposure to the pure stuff (not what they use at raves where they adulterate it), everyone would get a revelation about how we can keep our hearts open, which is the doorway to happiness. On my blog, column left, in Outside the Box Ideas, I have this entry: 7. Give ecstasy to people we want info from — turn evil people into heart-connected ones.

The Genius of Alex Grey, a panelist for New York

Anything I could say about Alex Grey, who will be a panelist for Q&As after screenings of What On Earth? at New York’s Quad Cinema, on April 27, would not do him justice. He will go down in history as one of our most extraordinary artists, and if you don’t know who he is you’re […]