Psychedelic era

The Psychedelic era was the time of social, musical and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, occurring from the mid-1960s[1] to the mid-1970s.[2] The era was defined by the proliferation of LSD and its following influence in the development of psychedelic music and psychedelic film in the Western world.[3]

Writers who explored the potentials of consciousness exploration in the psychedelic era included Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass among others; an important journal of the time was The Psychedelic Review.[4]

  1. ^ Henke, James; Parke Puterbaugh; Charles Perry; Barry Miles (1997). I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era, 1972-1978. Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-1725-3.
  2. ^ Pendergast, Sara; Tom Pendergast (2000). St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. St. James Press. p. 129.
  3. ^ Williams, Holly (2018-10-17). "How LSD influenced Western culture". bbc.com. BBC.
  4. ^ Leary, Timothy; Metzner, Ralph; Weil, Gunther M., eds. (1993). The Psychedelic Reader: Classic Selections from the Psychedelic Review. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-1451-5.

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