Chris Elcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Elcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Elcock |
| SIGNATURE | ELCOCK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6722-9414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychedelic philanthropy
Little has been written on the financial support behind Timothy Leary's unorthodox research into mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin and his subsequent psychedelic movement. Indeed several individuals and organizations helped the psychedelic cause by directly funding Leary's ventures, offering legal and logistic assistance, and organizing fund-raising campaigns. I argue that classic philanthropic attitudes and wealthy patrons played a maj…
David Farber, Crack
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Reframing Bummer Trips
The concept of a bad or bummer trip has been used to capture the imagination of public health advisors and drug regulators, especially for producing warnings against taking drugs that cause physical and psychological harm. Psychedelics emerged in the 1960s public health literature as frequently causing bad trips, with violent and fearful outbursts from users causing harm to themselves and others. The fear and anxiety allegedly generated by a chem…
Heads
Book Review| July 01 2018 Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. Jesse Jarnow. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2016; 468 pages. $27.99 (hardcover), ISBN 0306822555. Chris Elcock Chris Elcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2018) 12 (2): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
From Headshops to Whole Foods
Psychedelics and the Religious Experience
Book Review| May 01 2017 Psychedelics and the Religious Experience Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America. By Morgan Shipley. Lexington, 2015. 302 pages. $95.00 cloth; ebook available.Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences. By William A. Richards. Columbia University Press, 2016. 280 pages. $29.95 cloth; ebook available.Mystery School in Hyperspace: A C…
Groovy Science
Acid Hype
Book Review| July 01 2016 Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience. Stephen Siff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015; 264 pages. $28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-08076-0; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03919-5. Chris Elcock Chris Elcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2016) 10 (2): 158–160. h…
A Conversation with Ed Rosenfeld
The Fifth Freedom
It’s all a Kind of Magic
It's all Kind of Magic: The Young Ken Kesey, by Rick Dodgson, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. 256 pp. $26.95 US (cloth). There are some useful biographies of Sixties counter-cultural icons like Hunter Thompson or Timothy Leary, but an insightful account of life and times of Ken Kesey was lacking. Rick Dodgson had filled gap by offering first academic biography of best-selling author and inspirational figure amongst psychedelic enthu…
Are you experienced? How psychedelic consciousness transformed modern art
There is an obvious relationship between psychedelic drug use and the production of psychedelic art that seeks to replicate aspects of the visionary experience induced by LSD, mescaline, or even ca
From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution
Reframing Bummer Trips
The concept of a bad or bummer trip has been used to capture the imagination of public health advisors and drug regulators, especially for producing warnings against taking drugs that cause physical and psychological harm. Psychedelics emerged in the 1960s public health literature as frequently causing bad trips, with violent and fearful outbursts from users causing harm to themselves and others. The fear and anxiety allegedly generated by a chem…
From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution
Are you experienced? How psychedelic consciousness transformed modern art
There is an obvious relationship between psychedelic drug use and the production of psychedelic art that seeks to replicate aspects of the visionary experience induced by LSD, mescaline, or even ca
From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution
It’s all a Kind of Magic
It's all Kind of Magic: The Young Ken Kesey, by Rick Dodgson, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. 256 pp. $26.95 US (cloth). There are some useful biographies of Sixties counter-cultural icons like Hunter Thompson or Timothy Leary, but an insightful account of life and times of Ken Kesey was lacking. Rick Dodgson had filled gap by offering first academic biography of best-selling author and inspirational figure amongst psychedelic enthu…
A Conversation with Ed Rosenfeld
The Fifth Freedom
Acid Hype
Book Review| July 01 2016 Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience. Stephen Siff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015; 264 pages. $28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-08076-0; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03919-5. Chris Elcock Chris Elcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2016) 10 (2): 158–160. h…
Psychedelics and the Religious Experience
Book Review| May 01 2017 Psychedelics and the Religious Experience Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America. By Morgan Shipley. Lexington, 2015. 302 pages. $95.00 cloth; ebook available.Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences. By William A. Richards. Columbia University Press, 2016. 280 pages. $29.95 cloth; ebook available.Mystery School in Hyperspace: A C…
Groovy Science
Heads
Book Review| July 01 2018 Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. Jesse Jarnow. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2016; 468 pages. $27.99 (hardcover), ISBN 0306822555. Chris Elcock Chris Elcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2018) 12 (2): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
From Headshops to Whole Foods
Reframing Bummer Trips
The concept of a bad or bummer trip has been used to capture the imagination of public health advisors and drug regulators, especially for producing warnings against taking drugs that cause physical and psychological harm. Psychedelics emerged in the 1960s public health literature as frequently causing bad trips, with violent and fearful outbursts from users causing harm to themselves and others. The fear and anxiety allegedly generated by a chem…
David Farber, Crack
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Psychedelic philanthropy
Little has been written on the financial support behind Timothy Leary's unorthodox research into mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin and his subsequent psychedelic movement. Indeed several individuals and organizations helped the psychedelic cause by directly funding Leary's ventures, offering legal and logistic assistance, and organizing fund-raising campaigns. I argue that classic philanthropic attitudes and wealthy patrons played a maj…
Psychedelics and Drug Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Library science (4 works)