Acid Diaries

Christopher Gray (1942-2009) was well known for his involvement in the 1960s with Situationist International, for his various radical writings, and as Swami Prem Paritosh, disciple of the guru Osho. He translated Raoul Vaneigem’s Banalités de Base (as The Totality for Kids) and is the author of Leaving the Twentieth Century, the first English- language anthology of Situationist ideas, and the biography Life of Osho.

• Preface 1 Batch 25 2 Wonder Drug 3 The Doors of Perception 4 Psychopolitics and the Sixties 5 Bad Trips 6 The First Maps 7 Sleep--and Waking Up 8 Realms of the Human Unconscious 9 Session 1: A Low-Dose Trip 10 The First Group of Trips 11 Session 6: Doubling the Dose 12 BPM 2 13 Session 8: Windle Hey 14 Session 9: Mum 15 Underground Psychotherapy 16 Set, Setting, and History 17 God as Light 18 “I Saw a Man Cloathed with Raggs . . .” 19 Resistance 20 Psychedelics Since the Sixties 21 Resistance (continued) 22 Anna and A Cappella 23 Anna’s Death 24 Session 21: Being Two People Simultaneously 25 The Transpersonal 26 Tripping on the Heath 27 The Purple Flowers 28 “Ecstatic Journey of the Living into the Realm of the Dead . . .” 29 “Ecstatic Journey . . .” (continued) 30 Terrible Beauty 31 “Not the true samadhi . . .” 32 Session 27: Last Trip in the Woods 33 Demonstrations, Ecstasy, Advaita 34 Return of the Repressed 35 “Another World Is Possible” 36 “Another World Is Possible” (continued) 37 Toward a Sacramental Vision of Reality 38 Meltdown in God 39 Out of the Body? 40 Session 45: At Judges Walk 41 BPM 4 42 The Long Flashback 43 Interim Report 44 Interim Report (continued) 45 Mutual Immanence 46 Sanctus Appendix: Ergot and the West Notes Bibliography: A Chronology of Psychedelic Literature

"Truly The Acid Diaries is a return to form for psychedelic literature, not only is it a beautifully written narrative but it's full of engaging ideas that Gray uses to weave a web of possibility and, ultimately, hope for the future of psychedelics."