Helen Donlon – Psychedelic Culture In Ibiza Since The 1960's
Based on research for my book Shadows Across the Moon: Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans and the Making of Ibiza Clubland this short talk will trace the unbroken continuum that runs from 1960s Ibiza to today in terms of the wide-ranging investigations into psychedelic consciousness that have been of consistent interest to the island’s international community. 1960s Ibiza saw psychonauts pioneer the importance of ‘set and setting’ and popularise entheogens, meditation, macrobiotics, yoga consciousness, Eastern influenced neopagan trance culture and even trepanation. Later, when the Osho community helped disseminate MDMA on open-air island nightclub terraces the Second Summer of Love was born and exported. Now entheogens such as ayahuasca, DMT and psychoactive toad extracts are also of wide interest within this unusually open-minded community. The continued interest in various forms of advanced consciousness and lifestyle is as ever a key aspect of the character of Ibiza’s international resident demographic.
Filmed at Breaking Convention 2017 - 4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness University of Greenwich London, June 30th-July 2nd 2017
www.breakingconvention.co.uk
Based on research for my book Shadows Across the Moon: Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans and the Making of Ibiza Clubland this short talk will trace the unbroken continuum that runs from 1960s Ibiza to today in terms of the wide-ranging investigations into psychedelic consciousness that have been of consistent interest to the island’s international community. 1960s Ibiza saw psychonauts pioneer the importance of ‘set and setting’ and popularise entheogens, meditation, macrobiotics, yoga consciousness, Eastern influenced neopagan trance culture and even trepanation. Later, when the Osho community helped disseminate MDMA on open-air island nightclub terraces the Second Summer of Love was born and exported. Now entheogens such as ayahuasca, DMT and psychoactive toad extracts are also of wide interest within this unusually open-minded community. The continued interest in various forms of advanced consciousness and lifestyle is as ever a key aspect of the character of Ibiza’s international resident demographic.
Filmed at Breaking Convention 2017 – 4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness University of Greenwich London, June 30th-July 2nd 2017
www.breakingconvention.co.uk
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