Colonising the sacred: the biopolitics of psychedelic healing and how to respond

These are preliminary notes for a talk I will deliver at Exeter University at this April's Breaking Convention

Psychedelia was once a free-flowing radical movement of anti-prohibitionists, ecologists, peace lovers and indigenous elders who wanted to build a new world which was an alternative to the death-drive of consumerism, war and environmental destruction. Psychedelia today has become a “renaissance” of strict and sterile medicalisation, corporate funding an…