Psychedelia – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Conference: “Psychic Landscape. Psychedelia, Magic and Consciousness Development "

Published on: February 23 2022 Last updated on: February 23 2022 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Press releases and updates, Events, Psychedelia, Shamanism, History of Religions, Video

Sunday afternoon 27 February we will speak as speakers at the international conference on Psychedelia organized by the friends of the Society of the Sulfur, with a report on Terence McKenna and entheogenic shamanism of Mexico and the Andes. In addition to us, Julian Vayne, Giorgia Gaia and Tancredi Marrone will participate. Live streaming video on the LSDZ YouTube channel starting at 17pm.

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Presentation of «AXIS mundi» at the General States of Psychedelia in Italy 2020

Published on: April 4 2021 Last updated on: April 4 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Press releases and updates, Psychedelia

Our video intervention at the SGPI20, last December, gave us the opportunity to briefly present the anthropological and sacred perspective with which the "AXIS mundi" project was originally conceived and then carried out in recent years, as well as (given the right opportunity) to identify the sacral elements discernible in the psychedelic experience. Here you can exclusively read the full text that will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

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Joyful apocalypse: news from Tangier in the Cosmos

Published on: November 4, 2019 Last updated on: November 4, 2019 Written by: Gianni DeMartino Categorized into: Italian Literature, Psychedelia

The watchword of the Sixties was "to broaden the area of consciousness". The acute, poetic and relentless gaze of Gianni De Martino, one of the founders of “Mondo beat”, considered one of the leaders of the psychedelic movement and author of the recent “I want to see God in the face. Fragments of the first counterculture ”, reveals the ecstatic and visionary universe, between illumination and dazzle, of the first psychonauts and the encounter with the fairy tale through nihilism at the time of love-ins in Tangier and on the beaches of Mogador.

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From the shaman to the raver: electronic music between primitivism and ecstasy

Published on: October 14, 2018 Last updated on: May 6, 2019 Written by: Robert Siconolfi Categorized into: Anthropology, Psychedelia

An anthropological reflection on the collective enjoyment of electronic music and on the phenomenon of "raves": from the ritualistic tribalism of the group to the "invasion", from the "death of the ego" to the ecstatic possibility.

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