Nicholas Powers
- Nicholas Powers is the author of The Ground Below Zero: Burning Man to 9/11, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, a hybrid narrative of journalism and memoir published by Upset Press in 2014. He writes on race and psychedelics for DoubleBlind, Chacruna, Lucid News and TRUTHOUT & has been interviewed for Psychedelics Today. Brooklyn Psychedelic Society developed his three-part course Altered States in America and his talk Psychedelic Socialism. His 2017 Horizon's talk "Black Masks, Rainbow Bodies" was published in the Spring 2018 MAPS newsletter. He earned a Ph.D in Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2007 and has been writing on psychedelics since 2008. The next project is a book on trauma and psychedelics.
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The Dark Side of Festival Culture
When psychedelic-fueled revelry becomes delirium and abuse.
Art + Culture
The Dark Side of Festival Culture
When psychedelic-fueled revelry becomes delirium and abuse.
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If You Can’t Go Out, Go In: How Psychedelics Make Quarantine a Time of Self Renewal
The Covid-19 lockdown has given us time to explore our inner-worlds, and psychedelics are the perfect tool.
