{"id":142,"date":"2008-06-21T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-06-21T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:25:30","slug":"psychological-psychedelia-by-delphi-from-downunder-and-the-antipodes-of-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/psychological-psychedelia-by-delphi-from-downunder-and-the-antipodes-of-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Psychedelia by Delphi from downunder and the antipodes of S. Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from<\/p>\n<p>Along with a host of other literary, artistic and  scientific luminaries of the period, novelist Anais Nin was one of the new wonder- drug's early guinea-pigs. At the dawn of the psychedelic sixties, she saw herself as  part of a larger social organism that was liquefying; opening like a sea-anenemone to  countless imaginary worlds of the imagination made flesh. Like the generation of  psychonauts that followed in the wake of the bomb, she experienced an epiphany that,  for a few brief and glorious hours, exploded her right out of history. \u00a0 The term  'psychedelic' was coined to describe this experience of the ineffable. It means \"mind- manifesting\" and represents the transposition of inner and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groovytroopers.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=89&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\">outer psychological and  experiential realities; the detonation of the 'self'.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Along with a host of other literary, artistic and scientific luminaries of the period, novelist Anais Nin was one of the new wonder- drug's early guinea-pigs. At the dawn of the psychedelic sixties, she saw herself as part of a larger social organism that was liquefying; opening like a sea-anenemone to countless imaginary worlds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/psychological-psychedelia-by-delphi-from-downunder-and-the-antipodes-of-s-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Psychological Psychedelia by Delphi from downunder and the antipodes of S. Africa\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[204,205],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-field","tag-anais-nin","tag-lsd-is-the-bomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}