The current king of Israeli psychedelia is Gon Ben Ari. His clips might not have the familiar psychedelic style of lavish forms and colors, but he writes and sings brilliantly about mania, ptsd, liminal mental states, cannabis, psychedelics, and spiritual breakthrough. Ben Ari also published a brilliant psychedelic novel with strong autobiographical elements about his experiences with plant medicine and adventures in Kabbalah. For those of you who don’t speak Hebrew, hopefully his stuff gets translated sometime soon, because this is insane!
An absolutely crazy, incredible video provides moment to moment coverage of the the path of this Korean dude to supreme 100% enlightenment. An eye opening video.
1960s Israeli psychedelic band, the Churchills, known abroad as Jericho Jones (name was changed for the international tours to avoid hurting the English people’s feelings), beautiful rendition of a Bach tune.
If history can be psychedelic it is Adam Curtis that makes it so. The big master of historical narrative, montage, jump cuts, and archival materials was back this year with a new masterpiece exploring everything that went wrong with the world since 1945 and why it did so. Ambitious, pretentious, and exceptionally beautiful and moving – if you haven’t watched it, you definitely should.
Beautiful psychedelics song and video by Josh Lauffer with Elijah Eskin, quoting some biblical quotes about rolling the perfumes of temple (read: smoking utensils)
If you haven’t yet watched Errol Morris’s My Psychedelic Love Story you really should. Morris retells the extraordinary story of Timothy Leary’s 1970s adventures from the perspective of Leary’s onetime cosmic lover Johanna Harcourt Smith. A visual feast and a delightful psychedelic thriller.
