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New ep of People Just Do Something is out in the bio
This time Im w/ writer drugs historian Mike Jay (@MikeJayNet) to explore the surprisingly revolutionary history of Nitrous Oxide/Laughing gas the famous Bristolians who invented and prolifically self-experimented with it
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13 Jun 2025
Launching FREE RADICALS in Bath with a discussion @BRLSI on Thursday 26th brlsi.org/whatson/free-radic…
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10 Jun 2025
In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: publicdomainreview.org/essay…
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8 Jun 2025
Join celebrated historian @MikeJayNet at Bristol's Bookhaus for the launch of his newest book Free Radicals—a thrilling new history of the poets, scientists & radicals who discovered laughing gas and changed how we think about the mind.
June 25 🧠 ⚛️ 📖
bookhausbristol.com/events/#…
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7 Jun 2025
Ketamine might be Silicon Valley's favourite drug, but it is also the UK's.
How Britain fell into the K-hole, by @MikeJayNet
newstatesman.com/politics/he…
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1 Feb 2025
After setting fire to York Minster #OnThisDay in 1829, Jonathan Martin was confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department at Bethlem from 1829-1838. There he produced remarkable artworks typically depicting his prophetic visions. bit.ly/2MyPCRO
Image: "Hell's Gate"
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22 Jan 2025
Historian @MikeJayNet tracing the dawn of 'psychedelic psychiatry' back to 1845 in our 2020 annual conference
This year's British Neuropsychiatry Association conference happens Mar 13-14 in London
Early bird registration is open now bnpa.org.uk/agm/
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4 Jan 2025
Was the #FrenchRevolution the work of a covert Masonic cell known as the Illuminati? One man thought so. @MikeJayNet explores: bit.ly/PiXGTL
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1 Jan 2025
It’s a retitled and revised edition of this, originally published 2009
Thanks to @loosestish and @YaleBooks for resurrecting it
mikejay.net/books/the-atmosp…
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23 Dec 2024
Today’s chaotic drug marketplace is blurring the lines between medicine, spirituality and getting high, @MikeJayNet writes.
Read: nyti.ms/3Dr8dJT
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23 Dec 2024
Thoughts on a post-drug world for @NYTimesOpEd (gift link)
nytimes.com/2024/12/23/opini…
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28 Nov 2024
‘Ayahuasca now pervades an international genre of psychedelic art in which Indigenous Amazonian themes merge with tropes of Eastern mysticism, science fiction and computer generated fractal geometries.’
@MikeJayNet on ayahuasca and peyote:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n23/…
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12 Nov 2024
Exploring the Mind with Psychonauts: In Conversation with Mike Jay Tickets, Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring…
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6 Nov 2024
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by @MikeJayNet explores the deep roots of mescaline.
Long before it caught the West’s eye, mescaline-containing cacti were central to Indigenous spiritual practices in the Americas, with use dating back thousands of years 🧵
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