Giant Crab, “E.S.P.”

The Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 22, 2021 - Comments (4)
Category: Music, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s

Killer Tomatoes

My partner grafts tomatoes for our garden. Must caution against this!

Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee) 31 Oct 1963, Thu Page 14

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 16, 2021 - Comments (2)
Category: Family, Food, Psychedelic, 1960s, Goofs and Screw-ups

Pythagoron

Released in 1977, the album Pythagoron consisted of electronic sounds that supposedly stimulated certain brain waves, thereby allowing the listener to get high, without the use of drugs. The Hum blog offers more details:

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 11, 2021 - Comments (1)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Music, 1970s

Odyssey:  Into the Mind’s Eye

1990s production of psychedelic trip with soundtrack.

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 19, 2021 - Comments (0)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Music, Special Effects, 1990s

The Psychedelic Experience

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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, PSA’s, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1960s

Sun Ra Arkestra - Seductive Fantasy (A Chad Van Gaalen animation)

Weird music plus weird animation: two great weirds that go great together!

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 20, 2020 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

LSD:  The Vinyl Album Version

Discogs entry here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 08, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, PSA’s, 1960s

Deeply Artificial Trees

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 05, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Aliens, Art, Surrealism, Body Modifications, Psychedelic

Michael in Wonderland

Michael Jackson takes a Magical Mystery Tour.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 04, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Music, Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic, 1970s

Hallucinogenic giraffe livers

It's possible that the livers of some giraffes might be hallucinogenic when consumed. Although the claim is controversial.



The idea was first introduced into the scientific literature in 1958 by anthropologist Ian Cunnison, in an article published in the obscure journal Sudan Notes and Records.

Cunnison had spent time with the giraffe-hunting Humr tribe of Sudan, and he reported that after a successful hunt they would often consume a drink called umm nyolokh made from the liver and bone marrow of the giraffe. Cunnison didn't try the drink himself, but its effects, as described to him by the Humr, seemed to be hallucinogenic, Here's the relevant passage in Cunnison's article:



It's noted on Wikipedia that, if the reports from the Humr were accurate, “this claim would make the giraffe the first mammal to be discovered to contain a hallucinogen in its bodily tissues,” However, Cunnison himself was skeptical, suggesting that the perceived effects might be “brought about subconsciously.”

Cunnison’s article didn’t attract much attention until 1998, when Richard Rudgely discussed it in his Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances. Rudgely was far more willing to believe that the giraffe livers really were hallucinogenic.

Since then people have speculated that the giraffes in Sudan might have been consuming plants, such as Acacia trees, that contained psychoactive substances, which then concentrated in their livers.

But to date, to my knowledge, the issue remains entirely speculative because no one has gone to Sudan to find and test some of this umm nyolokh.

Members of the Humr tribe skinning a giraffe after a hunt.
Source: Sudan Notes and Records

Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 11, 2019 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Drugs, Psychedelic, Inebriation and Intoxicants