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Dossier 6 · 2027
Cyberdelics
The Synthetic ImaginalThe newest instrument in the oldest sequence. Generative image, immersive environment, cyberdelic media — and the question the archive has been building toward: if awe can be engineered on demand, what happens to the authority of the state it induces?
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Dossier 5 · 2026
Entheogenic Shamanism
The Visionary PharmakonThe Greeks had one word - pharmakon - for both remedy and poison. This dossier takes the plant as an instrument rather than a sacrament or a drug. The plant arranges a condition. Jonathan Ott, who with Ruck, Bigwood, Staples and Wasson coined the word 'entheogen'. Ott had no patience for the phrase psychedelic renaissance: nothing had died, so nothing was being reborn - the practice has been continuous for ten thousand years and is still going strong.
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Dossier 4 · 2026
Vision Craft
Charting 21st Century Visionary ArtVisionary art emerged across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as a countercurrent to modernist formalism and the dominance of high-concept art. Rather than treating the image primarily as critique, proposition or aesthetic object, it employs signs, symbols and imaginal forms as records of transpersonal exploration—attempts to render altered states, archetypal realities and expanded modes of consciousness visible.
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An argument or study that advances the field — 2,000–6,000 words, in Cite Them Right Harvard.
Interview
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Primary text
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Memorial
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- VoiceEditorial rigour is not decorative. Argue a position; earn the reader’s attention.
- ImagesSend plates you have the right to reproduce, at the highest resolution you hold.
- OriginalityUnpublished work, or a clearly framed republication with fresh apparatus.
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