Reflections on the Psychedelic Spare part II. Don't blow anything up, unless you've really thought about it babe

Post-psychedelic messianic mania. Intuitive Validity Vibes. Acid Hal, the artist formally known as Prince Harry. The Jungian joys of snakes.

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….There are legal centres in certain parts of the world. I love to think Acid Hal, the artist formally known as Prince Harry, flew to Peru. I love to think he sat down in a ceremonial maloca and did it with a bunch of random bods - ex-serviceman, junkies seeking release from addiction, neurotic menopausal writers (*coughs* who me?), psychonauts, wannabe neo-shamans and the notoriously splenetic hospitality Top Cat with his weedy Benny of a sidekick, all of whom I found when I was back in the jungle.

Top Cat and Benny. Reader, I drank ayahuasca with them

Let’s be realistic, though, Harry wasn’t lying down in an ayahuasca nest and 'journeying’ with the people. It’s likely Acid Hal went to a small ceremony in a private home, possibly even a stately country pile or a fat Malibu pad. Given he isn’t skint - despite his protestations about security costs PH doesn’t have metered energy or a telly you have to put 50 pences into and his therapeutic trips would likely have been facilitated by a crack team experienced in managing and nurturing people on epic doses of psychedelics. This is a skill that should not be underestimated. It would be nice to think he had a proper shaman there and not some greedy Instagram luxury spirituality cunt who is mates with GOOP.

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The word therapeutic suggests a shrink there, watching and listening, while you lie on a beanbag listening to Jon Hopkins Music for Psychedelic Therapy, and studies into therapeutic psilocybin do tend to have a trip sitter and an individual. But traditionally, ayahuasca is administered to people in a group over multiple occasions. People with their own bucket to puke into. And a little mattress to lie on.