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4 unusual facts about Patrick Lundborg


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Patrick Lundborg (born 1967), writer on pop culture and author of the book The Acid Archives

Patrick Lundborg

Certain representative works and artists are selected for detailed analysis, such as William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, William Blake, Eden Ahbez, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Mel Lyman Family, Terence McKenna, Grateful Dead, Philip K Dick, Father Yod & The Source Family, and several more.

A permanent alternative spiritual culture of the West is outlined as Lundborg follows the impulse from Eleusis through the Neoplatonism and pantheism of the Middle Ages, the rise of hermeticism and esoteric alchemy during the Renaissance, up to the highly visible psychedelic scenes of the modern world.

Psychedelic culture is traced from its beginnings with the hallucinogenic celebrations at Eleusis 2500 years ago, acknowledging in parallel the ancient shamanic plant drug cultures of South America and Mexico.



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