Pioneers
Hofmann, Huxley, Osmond, Wasson, Leary, Ram Dass, Shulgin, McKenna, Griffiths, Doblin, Pollan, the chemists, writers and researchers who mapped the territory.
Part of Psychedelics
46 moments in this segment.
- - Caricature portrait of Huxley drawn by David Low. A drawn portrait of Aldous Huxley by the cartoonist David Low, dated 25 November 1933. It was published as part of a collection issued by The New Statesman and Nation. Low was among the best-known British political cartoonists of the period.
- - Archival photographic portrait of Aldous Huxley. A photographic portrait of the English novelist, essayist and poet Aldous Huxley, 1894 to 1963, held by the Archivo Histórico de Sinaloa in Mexico and filed there among portraits of European and Latin American artists. It reached Commons through Flickr's The Commons programme. The file is catalogued under portraits of Aldous Huxley.
- - John Collier's painted portrait of Aldous Huxley. A painted portrait of Aldous Huxley by the English painter John Collier, 1850 to 1934, reproduced in The Graphic on 7 May 1927. Collier was a portraitist of the Pre-Raphaelite circle and painted many literary and scientific figures of his day. The image is one of the earlier likenesses of Huxley on Commons.
- - British Politician Christopher Mayhew in Humphry Osmond's Mescaline Experiment (1955). British Politician Christopher Mayhew in Humphry Osmond's Mescaline Experiment, Humphry Osmond, who coined the word "psychedelic".
- - R. Gordon Wasson - The Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico - Lecture
- - The Mushroom Man - Documentary on Gordon Wasson & Sacred Fungi. 1957 LIFE magazine article "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" introduced psilocybin to the American public.
- - Robert Forte: The Records of Gordon Wasson & the Origins of the Psychedelic Movement
- - R. Gordon Wasson (1957). Gordon Wasson, who brought the magic mushroom to America (1957). The subject dates from 1957; this photograph was taken in 2008.
- - Aldous Huxley's Psychedelic Experience
- - Humphry Osmond (1960). Humphry Osmond, who coined the word "psychedelic" (1960). This photograph dates from 1965.
- - Aldous Huxley on Mescaline - Interview (1961). Aldous Huxley on Mescaline - Interview, The novelist whose 1954 mescaline memoir The Doors of Perception gave the West its language for the psychedelic experience.
- - Leary, Alpert & The Harvard Psilocybin Project
- - Dr. Timothy Leary - Interview on LSD (1966). Dr. Timothy Leary - Interview on LSD, Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic prophet.
- - Dr. Timothy Leary, Harvard 1966: LSD - Methods of Control. "turn on, tune in, drop out", whom Nixon called "the most dangerous man in America".
- - Ram Dass - The Practice of Being Here Now
- - Associated Press news portrait of Timothy Leary. A wire-service photograph of Leary made in 1970 and distributed by the Associated Press, then published on 15 January 1971. The print survives in the public domain because it was issued without a copyright notice, and the Commons copy was scanned from an eBay listing.
- - Leary with Allen Ginsberg and John Lilly on Easter Sunday. A Polaroid taken at the home of Dr Oscar Janiger on Easter Sunday 1991, showing Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and the physician John C. Lilly from left to right. The gathering brought together three figures long associated with consciousness research.
- - Becoming Ram Dass - Full Lecture. (Richard Alpert), the Harvard-professor-turned-guru.
- - John Bleibtreu and Humphry Osmond Interview. "psychedelic" in 1957 and gave Aldous Huxley his first mescaline.
- - The Abyss: Terence McKenna - Full Lecture (1982). The Abyss: Terence McKenna - Full Lecture, Terence McKenna, the psychedelic bard.
- - An Evening with Albert Hofmann (1983), interviewed by Will Nofke
- - Stanislav Grof on LSD Psychotherapy: Live Talk at Esalen. (1984).
- - Terence McKenna - Sacred Plants as Guides (Part 1). ), Terence McKenna, the psychedelic bard.
- - Albert Hofmann Interview (1993): The Effects of LSD | SRF Archiv. Albert Hofmann Interview (1993): The Effects of LSD, Albert Hofmann, who discovered LSD.
- - Dr. Humphry Osmond - 50 Years of LSD. "psychedelic".
- - McKenna on a panel at the AllChemical Arts Conference. Terence McKenna during a panel discussion at the AllChemical Arts Conference held at Kona, Hawaii, in November 1999. Photograph by Jon Hanna. It is one of the few free-licensed photographs of McKenna speaking.
- - Botanical Dimensions ethnobotanical preserve, Hawaii. Buildings at Botanical Dimensions, a nonprofit ethnobotanical preserve in the Kona district on the Big Island of Hawaii. The preserve was founded in 1985 by Kathleen Harrison and Terence McKenna to conserve medicinal and shamanic plants.
- - Luminaries of Pantheism mural in Venice, California. A mural in Venice, Los Angeles, painted by Levi Ponce to a design by Peter Moriarty and conceived by Perry Rod for The Paradise Project. McKenna appears among a group of figures that also includes Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, Spinoza, Einstein and Jung.
- - Alexander Shulgin, 1995: His Lab Near San Francisco
- - Skeletal structure diagram of the compound 2C-G-4. A two-dimensional chemical structure of 2C-G-4, drawn in ACD/ChemSketch using ACS style conventions. The structure follows the version published in PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, so the image documents Shulgin's written work rather than the chemist himself.
- - Alexander Shulgin (1995). Alexander Shulgin, the chemist who reinvented MDMA (1995).
- - Cropped close portrait of Alexander Shulgin. A tight crop isolating Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin from a larger group photograph taken by Charlie Llewellin in March 2010. It is the single-subject version of the same session, showing the chemist alone rather than among the assembled participants.
- - Sasha and Ann Shulgin among a group of eight. A group photograph in which Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin stands third from the right and Ann Shulgin fourth from the right, alongside Greg Manning, Tania Manning, Paul Daley and three unidentified people. Photographed by Charlie Llewellin of Austin, Texas, in March 2010.
- - Hofmann's Potion - Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary
- - Albert Hofmann's 100 Years - Closing Speech in Basel
- - Albert Hofmann 100th Birthday, Basel. 1938 and, on 19 April 1943, took the first deliberate dose and rode his bicycle home into history.
- - Dr. Rick Strassman Discusses DMT: The Spirit Molecule and His Research. "the spirit molecule".
- - Stanislav Grof: Psychedelics and the Future of Humanity | MAPS. Stanislav Grof: Psychedelics and the Future of Humanity (2017).
- - How to Change Your Mind: Michael Pollan in Conversation with Dacher Keltner
- - Michael Pollan on the Healing Power of Psychedelics | TIME. Michael Pollan on the Healing Power of Psychedelics, The writer whose 2018 bestseller How to Change Your Mind carried the psychedelic renaissance into the mainstream.
- - Studio portrait of Michael Pollan by Christopher Michel. A portrait of Michael Pollan made by the photographer Christopher Michel in 2022. It is the later of the two free-licensed likenesses of him held on Wikimedia Commons.
- - Michael Pollan speaking at a Yale Masters Tea. The American science journalist Michael Pollan addressing a Yale University Masters Tea. The cropped portrait dates from 2011, well before his book on psychedelics.
- - Michael Pollan - Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Bioneers. Michael Pollan - Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan, whose book reopened the conversation.
- - Researching Psychedelics and DMT with Rick Strassman. 1990s DMT studies, "the spirit molecule", were the first US human psychedelic trials in a generation.
- - Erika Dyck: Psychedelic Prophets - The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond. (2024).
- - The Queen of Psychedelics - Amanda Feilding | Beckley Foundation. The Queen of Psychedelics - Amanda Feilding (2024).
