“I paid £15,000 to have my knee replaced and the NHS would pay that too. I wouldn’t hesitate to spend the same on depression” @ProfDavidNutt @Drug_Science Exeter Uni Colloquium

“Drugs also considered ‘psychedelic’ like ketamine and scopolamine also depolarise receptors in the cortex prompting neural interconnectivity” @ProfDavidNutt @Drug_Science Exeter Uni Colloquium

“My next study uses 6-hour sub-psychedelic doses of DMT to try and treat strokes. We learned a lot about treating traumatic brain injury too” @ProfDavidNutt @Drug_Science Exeter Uni Colloquium

“Psychedelics were the first psychiatric breakthrough, pre-dating antidepressants and others” @ProfDavidNutt

“According to researchers who trailed the archives US govt refused international pressure to ban psychedelic research partly due to indigenous peyote use” @ProfDavidNutt at Exeter University Colloquium

“It’s important to realise that MDMA is not a psychedelic. It’s also not actually an amphetamine. I’m working on alternatives to MDMA that will be legal and easier to study. PTSD is the disorder of this century” @ProfDavidNut Exeter University Colloquium

“What the varying conditions psychedelics treat have in common, is rumination. It takes up tremendous amounts of brain power. Free yourself of rumination and seemingly you free yourself of these diseases” @ProfDavidNutt at @uniofexeter Colloquium

“What the varying conditions psychedelics treat have in common, is rumination. It takes up tremendous amounts of brain power. Free yourself of rumination and seemingly you free yourself of these diseases” @ProfDavidNutt at @uniofexeter Colloquium

Last-minute semi secret gig by greatest living Westcountryman @ProfDavidNutt at @uniofexeter Psychedelic Colloquium: ““Even when used recreationally psychedelics are much safer than most of the drugs we use in medicine.”

“The wisdom of ‘connecting to the forest’ while out hunting with the tribe sounds like a sixth sense to us. Compared to doing nothing else but sitting at a desk like we do, it probably is.” @bruceparry.bsky.social at Exeter Uni Psychedelic Colloquium

“When you’re foraging or hunting you bring a different level of attention to the present moment. Our ancestors practiced it every day. And that’s when something else appears to us.” @bruceparry.bsky.social Exeter Uni Psychedelic Colloquium

“I’ve had journeys when I’ve been humbled by my assumptions what I was receiving was Psychedelic Colloquium purely metaphorical. Is it coming from inside, intuitive? Or is it something else?” @bruceparry.bsky.social Exeter Uni Psychedelic Colloquium

“In the Gambon, the initiation isn’t the psychedelic experience - it’s how well you eat the Iboga bark. It tasted like wood chipping and battery acid. That took me 12 hours.” @bruceparry.bsky.social Exeter Uni Psychedelic Colloquium

“I joined the Royal Marines at 18. After I left I joined the expedition space, got a job with the BBC, filmed with the Babongo Tribe in the Gambon. Eventually they asked me”want to get initiated?” I replied, “yeah!” @bruceparry.bsky.social Exeter Uni Psychedelic Colloquium

Psychedelic Colloquium @UniofExeter with @bruceparry – “Indigenous tribes have conducted a longer line of research than anyone.”

Apparently these #WickerMan soundtrack edits were made especially for neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Beltane bash this wknd. Cheers #PaulHartnoll 🌽 🙏 🐌

Paul Hartnoll out of Orbital plays edit of 'Fire Leap' from the #WickerMan soundtrack at neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social this wknd to delight of #Beltane ravers

Peak experience #Beltane ritual led by high priestess @tree-carr.bsky.social at neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social this wknd 🦉 ☸️ 🙏

“Human beings have a withered ontology. We’re always 50% of something.” @justinrobertsonart.bsky.social to @joemuggs.bsky.social at neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social Beltane bash this wknd

“When an old friend fed back, ‘I don’t remember any of this crazy stuff happening?!’ I had to point out I was reading from my new magical realist novel. Not my DJ memoirs.” @justinrobertsonart.bsky.social to @joemuggs.bsky.social at neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social

“The @KLF_Online @confidencemanTM 'Emergency Chill Out Clinic' 100 ppl in hospital beds watching immersive visuals listening to Jimmy Cauty play ambient remixes. Grand ideas should be taken seriously and followed through.” Steve K2 neoancients.com X @weirdwalk

“The sound system from Castlemorton was playing as Grace Sands from DiY placed the brick containing Simon DK's ashes. In the moment of bereavement the party is all the greater for remembering.” Daisy Eris on #KLF People's Pyramid Mumufication project neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social

“Faith in chaos is the imperative. The KLF’s Bill Drummond told me, “If we knew ‘why?’, we wouldn’t even be doing it’.” Daisy Eris Campbell on @KLF_Online People's Pyramid #Mumufication project @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Beltane beano. Your host @joemuggs.bsky.social‬

“Bloke next to me at the ceremony asked, “You got a brick?” I replied, “Yeah” and he said “One day we’ll both be in there together.” @sportsbanger on eventual 'Mumufication' burial in #KLF #K2 People's Pyramid @neoancients X @weirdwalk.bsky.social festival

"During the lean winter months local men would dress as the straw bear and demand money with menaces. The modern day ritual is uncanny and unsettling, but resonates." @Ben_Edge_Art 'Folklore Rising' neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Beltane beano Stroud May Day wknd

"Rituals evolve and emerge over time. I went to Milton Keynes for summer solstice last year: the architect aligned its main street to the sunrise. St Michael's ley line runs through there and Avebury stone circle.” @Ben_Edge_Art 'Folklore Rising' neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Stroud

"During the lean winter months local men would dress as the straw bear and demand money with menaces. The modern day ritual appears especially uncanny and unsettling, but resonates." @Ben_Edge_Art 'Folklore Rising' neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Beltane beano Stroud this May Day wknd

“The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance artefacts are reindeer horns probably brought by vikings carbon dated 1065, but traditions are inside us – the collective unconscious mirroring the cycles of nature." @Ben_Edge_Art this wknd @neoancients @weirdwalk.bsky.social festival in that there #Stroud

Got a load of geolocalised esoteric content incoming from sublime wknd at neoancients.com X @weirdwalk.bsky.social #Beltane beano in that there #Stroud this May Day wknd