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a chemical lockpick for doors your brain bolted shut decades ago
means Describing a drug, experience, or art style that produces vivid hallucinations, altered perception, and intensely saturated colors or patterns.
from Coined in the 1950s by the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who stitched together two Greek roots: psyche, "mind or soul," and delos, "clear, visible, manifest" — so literally "mind-revealing." He famously floated it in a rhyming exchange with Aldous Huxley, who had proposed his own term; Osmond's won out. From clinical jargon it bled into the 1960s counterculture, where it stretched to cover everything from swirling poster art to fuzz-drenched guitar music.
- word origin
- Greek for mind-manifesting, coined in 1957
- default mode
- quiets the brain's ego-running default network
- clinical comeback
- FDA grants psilocybin breakthrough therapy status
- frequency illusion
- colors seem to breathe, not actually move
- prehistoric trips
- cave art may depict ancient mushroom visions
burning man — annual art festival in nevada desert since 1986 with hallucinogenic culture
monterey pop festival — june 1967 california concert featuring jimi hendrix, jefferson airplane, the doors
electric kool-aid acid test — ken kesey's 1964 cross-country bus tour with lsd-soaked parties documented in tom wolfe's book