MESCALINE: The First Psychedelic with Mike Jay

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  • The Century Club

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  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Classes
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  • Over 18
  • Wed, 11th Sep 2019 @ 18:30 - 20:30
  • 18:30 - 20:30

This salon is part of the Soho Series at London's exclusive Century Club

The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley’s 1954 report of his first mescaline trip, launched the psychedelic era. The story of mescaline, however extends deep into history: from the temples of ancient Peru to the deserts of Mexico and the origins of the Native American peyote ceremony, which brought it to the attention of modern science in the 1890s. Indeed in fin-de-siècle London it was investigated by aesthetes such as Havelock Ellis and W.B. Yeats, and in the 1930s psychiatrists at the Maudsley Hopital injected Surrealist artists with pharmaceutical mescaline to study their hallucinations.

In this talk, historian Mike Jay provides a definitive history of mescaline exploring its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity.

Mike Jay
Mike Jay has written widely on the history of psychoactive drugs. He was the co-curator of the Wellcome Collection’s 2010 exhibition, High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture, and wrote the accompanying book. His latest book, Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic is accompanied by the exhibition Brilliant Visions: mescaline, art, psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind (runs until 31 August). More at mikejay.net

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Mescaline: The First Psychedelic
Soho Series at the Century
18:30 - 20:30 £12.00

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The Century Club, 61 - 63, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6LQ

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Piccadilly Circus (Tube)

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A Curious Invitation

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