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The New York psytrance community received a bit of good news: The psytrance collective 28th Day is having another one of its parties held at Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. The ‘CoSMosis’ event on the night of September 16th is a return of the collaboration that brought NY scene its memorable parties in [...]

(via apophenia) Have you seen the Mouse Party before? The University of Utah put together a Flash-based visualization of the effects of various intoxicants upon the brain.

You analyze the brains of a group of highly-intoxicated mice, trapped in a genetics lab together listening to downtempo grooves. They all seem quite mellow, despite their extremely different [...]

Time for the seasons to change again, almost. We have one month left to dance under the open skies before the cold forces East Coast psytrancers back into lofts, warehouses, and clubs. Now, with CKA3KA just behind us, there remains in September two regional festivals; Samadhi in the north, outside of Montreal, and KaPow in [...]

I am just home from the Shpongle boat cruise in Hudson Harbor. John-Emmanuel, Luis, and co. successfully organized a novel experience for a few hundred trancers, CoSMites, Postford devotees, Body Templars, and Bisco kids.
The cruise was slightly shorter than the advertised three hours, but even just two-and-a-half hours of Shpongle mixed with Hallucinogen left everyone [...]

I’ll consider penning my own subjective experience of day, but for now the aggregate opinion will stand in its stead. It was a truly amazing party in all, the highlight of the year and easily on my “Top 10 Trance Party” list. Below are a few of the community’s responses to the “Prog in the [...]

Its been a good year for ethenogenic awareness; it has seen a number of encouraging reports in the general media directly contradicting years of “common sense” understandings of psychedelic experimentation.
First came the LSD Symposium in early spring, bringing together the global village’s academics and enthusiasts for a research festival (if you will). The benefits of [...]

A friend just informed me that Simon Postford will be visiting NYC next Thursday, the 24th of August. He’ll be playing a Shpongle DJ set for a three-hour boat party with deco courtesy of the Manhattan skyline.

Last week’s visit to cape cod put us on one of the finest beaches on the continent. We arrived on the beach late Saturday, near midnight, sliding down a vast slope of sand to the party at the base of the dunes. The music remained cautiously muted; our hosts anticipated the night’s conclusion, correctly as [...]

(Via psyNY) Here is video of the sunday morning stomping grounds at the PSI party, mentioned here and here, previously.
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Via NYC604: One of our local trancers, Rebecca, emailed her thoughts on the Boom! festival. It is good to know that a few friends represent us — carrying our goodwill — at what is arguably the pinnacle of all psychedelic trance festivals.

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