Wedding
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Sorry I've been a bit quiet here of late but I've been preoccupied with the not inconsiderable task of getting married. It was a go...
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Edinburgh talk

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I shall be speaking at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, this coming Monday 11th October, talk entitled Mushrooms and Myth . It forms pa...
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Secrets of Creation
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Secrets of Creation Volume One: The Mystery of the Prime Numbers. Matt Watkins with illustrations by Matt Tweed. The Inamorata Press. ISBN: ...
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Horizons tickets on sale

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As you know, I spoke at the wonderful Horizons - Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York City last year. It was a fantastic occ...
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Inception
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I went to see Inception last night and, apart from being as good as everyone says it is, one thought struck me as I negotiated the complex ...
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Electro Swing is the thing
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Rave’s refusal to die must rank as one of the great imponderables of our time. We, the rave generation, are now in our forties, our children...
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John Aubrey exhibition
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Thanks to my lifelong love of Avebury stone circle, I've been a fan of John Aubrey, the seventeenth century antiquarian who first put it...
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Festivals
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Summer is finally upon us and I am gearing up for a few festival appearances. I'm going to be speaking at Sunrise Festival next week (m...
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Snake Charmer
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I've been a fan of Indian Snake Charmer music for some time, a part of my general interest in bagpipes and bagpipe-like instruments from...
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Shroom Review
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I just received this review of Shroom . Always good when someone 'gets' what I was trying to say.
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