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@perceptionfdn Journalist and MSc at @UELPsychLondon. Interested in the risks and questions raised by HPPD and psychedelic drugs.

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Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip

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By Ed Prideaux
| psychedelics.community
What unfolded during a terrifying mushroom trip in Hawaii between 1988 and 1989 would change Terence McKenna’s relationship with psychedelics – and perhaps reshape the message he shared with the world for the rest of his life. The full account appears in Graham St. John’s biography, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, based on extensive interviews and archival work.
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Characterising the clinical associations of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder: a retrospective cohort study

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By Matt Butler Verified, Ellen Moore, James Rucker, Katharine Lynch-Kelly, Danish Hafeez, Ed Prideaux, Timothy R. Nicholson, Mark Edwards, Thomas A Pollak
| Nature Verified
Abstract Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is characterised by episodes of altered perception linked to past psychoactive drug use, accompanied by distress and functional impairment. To date, clinical characterisation has been limited in scale. Using TriNetX, a global federated health research network of electronic health records, we conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing clinical associations in individuals with HPPD versus population and psychedelic-using controls.
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A trip too far: The LSD experience that blew up the Huxley family Original

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By James Penner, Ed Prideaux
| Salon Verified
In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the converted barn's main room, Elizabethan ballads drifted through smoke-thick air as someone scattered chrysanthemum petals across a sheepskin rug. The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.
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