Psychedelic vehicles
Apr 11, 2009

Further: the second version of Ken Kesey’s Merry Prankster bus.
The word psychedelic, like surreal before it, slipped from its original meaning through appropriation. Humphrey Osmond’s neologism was first coined in drug-related correspondence with Aldous Huxley in 1957 and was specifically intended to describe the “mind-manifesting” quality of the hallucinogenic drug experience. The drug-inspired art and [...]
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