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ENCYCLOPAEDIA PSYCHEDELICA #1-15 (London: ed./pub. Fraser Clark, 1986-1991) - all published.
Wrps., pagination varies (667pp. in total). Each issue quarto, except double issue #13/14 (29cm.sq.). Illustrated throughout, with full colour covers, and the use of different colour ink overlays from issue #8 on.
A complete set of Fraser Clark's self-published magazine in which he advocated a new hybrid form of hippy, or 'zippy', defined as "60s Hippy + Technoperson", someone who combined "a psychedelic attitude to Life" while embracing New Age consciousness and technology, specifically electronic dance music such as acid house and techno. His opening editorial stated that its aim was to "pull together all the political and mystic strands which have emerged or established themselves in our Culture since the 60s…", and that (in an analogue anticipation of the internet) "100 quarterly volumes are planned, to build, by the year 2000, into the greatest databank of wisdom in human history. Bible included."
Clark later co-founded the underground club Megatripolis, which promoted trance music, provided a focal point for the Zippy movement, and helped popularise cyberculture. He also appeared in the 'Here Come the Zippies!' issue of Wired magazine (May 1994).
Contents include:
#1) Hippy issue. James Hamilton's "Trip through the Sixties"; "The 9 Principles of the Zippies' WoManifesto for World Recreation"; "History of Hip from 2000BC to 2000AD".
#2) Paganism issue. Psychedelic Shamanism; DH Lawrence; Henry Miller; an interview with Carlos Castaneda; "The Guru Test", compiled "with the help of Nicholas Albery".
#3) Science & Superconsciousness issue. The Gaia hypothesis; "Facts about AIDS"; R. Gordon Wasson obituary; "Electronic Psychedelics".
#4) Rock Festivals issue. Neil Oram; Fraser Clark on Woodstock; Mick Farren; Hawkwind; Stonehenge 1987; the Freelandia 2000 Trust; Ken Kesey on the death of John Lennon (5pp.).
#5) Sanity issue. Former Dutch Provo Hans Plomp; Situationism; Goa; RD Laing; John Michell; Roky Erickson.
#6) Poets' issue. Guest edited by Stuart Nolan. Allen Ginsberg ('Howl'), Daevid Allen, Bob Dylan, Neil Oram, Genesis P-Orridge, Jack Lindsay, many others.
#7) Western Civilisation? issue. The resurgence of Gaia; Robert Bly; astrology; paganism.
#8) Psychedelic HeroInes A-K. Includes contributions by Charles Bukowski (on Neal Cassasdy) and Timothy Leary (on Richard Alpert and Abbie Hoffman), among others; Ascona; psychedelic music by Richard Allen (later co-founder of Delerium Records).
#9) Psychedelic HeroInes L-Z. Timothy Leary interview (2pp.).
#10) Highs and Lows issue. Former Los Angeles Free Press reporter Clair Brush remembers the LA Acid Test in February 1966; Neil Oram.
#11) Psychic Politics issue. Yippie!/Chicago '68; John Michell; "The Magic Maggie Healing Doll" centrespread; Tony Benn on the Levellers; Hans Plomp; Neil Oram.
#12) The Goddess issue. Gaia; Lilith; "Wiccan Moon Magick"; Margaret Alic; Mignon Omoroka; "Healing the Patriarchal Dis-Ease".
#13/14) Double 'Evolution' issue. Clark subtitled his magazine Evolution in an attempt to instil the acid house scene with the hippy ethos, and this issue shows the strongest influence yet of the Scooby Doobies design team, who had recently begun working for Epi and infused it with the psychedelic art of rave culture. Includes interviews with Michael Eavis and Sunrise/Back to the Future acid house promoter, Tony Colston-Hayter. The latter evaded imprisonment in 1989 for organising Britain's biggest ever illegal Acid Party by claiming that he issued membership cards for Sunrise and that it was a private party; in 2014 he was jailed for hacking several banks in London. Also features "The Evolution of Dance Culture"; brain machines and neuro-technologies; Brion Gysin's Dreamachine; Chaos Science; dolphins; Hopi Indians. Complete with original clear plastic sleeve and 5 card flyers, as issued.
#15) Love issue. Timothy Leary ("Love Will Find a Wave"); David Tibet; Jamie Reid; Tantra; full-page ad. for Mondo 2000.
Issue #3 slightly rubbed and worn, o/w all issues Very Good plus to Fine. Both black and blue cover colour variants of first issue included.
A rare complete run of a magazine that offered a gathering place and voice for those who rejected Thatcherism, espoused hippy values and openly embraced the full panoply of New Age culture, from paganism, rave, acid house and the Free Festival Movement to Chaos Theory, entheogenic drugs and new technology.
