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@ Cabaret Voltaire
The Psychedelic Salon Zürich
Our yearly event in German
Nixpharma präsentiert Optistop®
Anschliessend, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Landesmuseum:
Stefan Zweifel: Friedrich Glauser, Genie und Polytoxikomane
Das Lebens Friedrich Glausers war geprägt von Entmündigung, Drogenabhängigkeit und Internierungen in psychiatrischen Anstalten. Trotzdem erlangte er mit seinen Erzählungen und Feuilletons. vor allem jedoch mit seinen fünf Krimis mit dem beliebten Wachtmeister Studer literarischem Ruhm.
Dazu liest Thomas Sarbacher Ausschnitte aus Glausers Werk.
Zürich / Cabaret Voltaire | Spiegelgasse 1, Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2025, 18-21 h | CHF 20/15
Tickets here

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Cannabis Europa
Returning to the heart of Europe, Cannabis Europa Paris 2026 brings together leaders from business, policy, healthcare, and investment to shape the future of cannabis on the continent. As regulatory landscapes shift and patient demand continues to rise, Paris becomes the stage for open dialogue, fresh perspectives, and new opportunities.
Paris | Hôtel de l’Industrie | Thursday, February 19, 2026

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Magic Trip
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the celebrated author of “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” embarks on a mythical journey across America from the West Coast to the East Coast. Under the influence of large amounts of LSD, Kesey and his band Merry Pranksters embark on the ultimate road trip.

Roads of the Roman Empire
An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England.

Sea level rise, glacial rebound and subsidence (NASA Short)
It’s not only water processes that play a role in global sea level rise – ground movements can play a significant role as well.

Brainforest Café
It’s giong to get weirder. The Terence McKenna story
A conversation with filmmaker Sharon McKenna

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The Kid LAROI
A Cold Play
Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born August 17, 2003), known by his stage name Kid Laroi (stylized as Kid LAROI), is an Australian singer, rapper, and songwriter. He was discovered by Triple J Unearthed in 2016 at the age of 13. As he gained a larger fan base, he was signed to Lil Bibby’s Grade A Productions, a joint venture with Columbia Records. He gained mainstream recognition with his 2021 single “Stay” (featuring Justin Bieber), which topped the charts in numerous countries, including his native Australia, as well as the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100.
Columbia

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
Tragic Magic
“Tragic Magic brings together Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two of contemporary ambient, experimental and electronic music’s most celebrated composers, for a unique collaboration at the Philharmonie de Paris, with extraordinary access to the Musée de la Musique’s instrument collection, in partnership with the French label InFiné. The album features seven immersive, evocative compositions guided by the human spirit – intimate, grounded in friendship, both earthly and cosmic – and part of a greater continuum, reflecting the solace and transformative power of artistry across generations.” (Bandcamp)
inFiné

Van Morrison
Remembering Now
Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as “Van the Man” to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Belfast R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded “Gloria. His solo career started with the release of the hit single “Brown Eyed Girl” in 1967. He has a new album coming out on 23 January, Someone Tried to Sell Me a Brdige. Good to hear his voice so clear in this slow, spoke-word piece, promising more to come.
Warner Records

Cumbia para la Previa (Mix Fiestero)
Mix Verano 2026
Here we have a whole range of cumbia stars from who make our feet move with their music andhelp us look fordward to spring, though it still seems far away. The cumbia pop genre emerged in the mid-2000s when some musical groups from Uruguay and Argentina made covers of popular songs, mixing them with elements of cumbia and pop, and posted them on YouTube. One of the pioneers was the Uruguayan group VI-EM, followed by the Argentine group Agapornis. However, it did not gain much notoriety, but at that time other sub-genres such as cumbia villera were more popular.
Montevideo Music Group

Yumi Zouma
In Camera
Yumi Zouma are a New Zealand alternative pop band from Christchurch. The band consists of Christie Simpson (vocals, keyboards), Josh Burgess (guitar, bass guitar, vocals, keyboards), Charlie Ryder (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards), and Olivia Campion (drums). The band’s name is an amalgamation of the two friends who encouraged the group to start writing together. The band did not begin writing music together until multiple members moved abroad and began collaborating over email following the events of the Christchurch earthquake. This early material gained attention within the musical blogosphere and encouraged American label Cascine to sign the band before they had played live or held a band practice.
Cascine

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a stoic attitude

As many of you know, the Stoics were a group of Greek and Roman philosophers during the Hellenistic Roman period, emerging towards the end of the third century BCE. Famous members included Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Zeno of Citrium (its founder) or Seneca. They were rationalists who believed in reason or logos, hence the mental discipline of logic. The Stoics encouraged focusing on what’s within our control (our judgments and actions) while cultivating “the middle road”, advocating virtues like wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, as well as promoting the inner resilience allowing us to find peace amidst life’s challenges.

Some of these ideas have been emphasized here before without tracing them back to their historic origin. To accept what one cannot change but rather focus one’s energy on making those things better that we have some control over is a lesson in endurance and grit. Most of us are at least occasionally tempted to “rage against the machine.” Just that it doesn’t change much, as became patently clear during the pandemic, when all kinds of people found reasons to go against the grain, often creating more of the isolation they lamented. Splitting the world into “us” and “them” remains a facile exercise in avoiding responsibility for the collective as a whole, of which we are all a part, like it or not.

We need to stand together and remember our core values. They haven’t changed. We’re still concerned with peace, with supporting our beautiful blue planet and its ecology, as with finding love in our hearts when dealing with others. We don’t need to be “healed” to make things better in our own little corner of the world. Like Mr. Natural, the R. Crumb character, famously said, “Life is hell, but we live well.”

I don’t mean that as a glib encouragement to turn one’s back on what’s collectively ailing us but rather as a reminder of all that we have to be grateful for. When it comes to our interests, we are all Stoics at least some of the time. They believed that the world makes sense. Their logic invites us to examine our reason(s) at all time. Are we acting rationally or on impulse? Are our motives purely personal or aimed towards a more universal good? What do we want to achieve? How much time do we have to do so?

The logic of the Stoics helps us get a clear view of reality, reason effectively about practical affairs, stand our ground amid confusion, differentiate the certain from the probable, or get an overview of what befalls us.

I wish you a happy and healthy new year!


Yours,
Susanne Seiler

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Acid Drops. Adventures in Psychedelia

Andy Roberts
Historical articles on the banning of LSD in Britain and Welsh Psilocybin festivals are coupled with intimate interviews with such figures as LSD chemist Casey Hardison, Jeff Dexter, Andy Munro, and Liz Elliot. As well as being an extraordinary record of British psychedelic culture over the last sixty years, the book is a very frank account of the author’s personal experiences of LSD and the world of the counterculture.
Psychedelic Press

Microcosms. Sacred Plants of the Americas

Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
To pay homage to sacred plants revered by Indigenous groups throughout the Americas is a way of honoring the entire world in a time of environmental emergency. The visual contents of this book magnify life in ways that may alter how humans perceive other living entities from our shared and threatened biosphere. Some of these plants contain the most potent psychoactive agents on the planet and serve as intermediaries that have enabled Native communities to communicate with their ancestors, wage war on the enemies of their land and their traditions, conceptualize entire cosmogonies, and maintain a nearly impossible ecological equilibrium.
Papadakis

The Genealogy of Plant Foods. The Spiritual, Nutritional, and Medicinal Power of the Foods That Sustain Us

Nathaniel Altman
This wonderful book teaches us about the plant foods upon which we depend. Learn how the avocado, yam, lentil, and other foods detailed in this book migrated from their places of origin to where they can be found today, along with their mythological powers, spiritual significance, and the ancient and modern festivals held in their honour. The author discusses each plant’s nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicine.
Healing Arts Press

Snakes and Arrows. An Oracle for Mapping Your Destiny (includes game board)

Polina Rud
Offering introspective insights for the beginning of the year or at any time, the origins of Snakes and Arrows trace back to gyan caupar, or the “game of knowledge,” a spiritual board game from ancient India. Like other forms of divination, such as the I Ching and the Tarot, the game offers a playful yet profound approach to explore the self, the present, and the future as well as understand one’s destiny. The game’s ascending path mirrors spiritual evolution and guides players toward enlightenment,. Rud shows how gyan caupar symbolises the psyche’s journey.
Destiny Books

Lament for a Literature

Richard Stursberg
A sweeping account of how English Canada once forged a confident literary culture―and how that culture has steadily collapsed. For decades, books provided the country’s most searching reflections on its history, politics, and identity; they shaped the national conversation and anchored a shared sense of who Canadians were. Author and media executive Richard Stursberg traces how this ecosystem emerged, flourished, and then eroded, foreign ownership, shifting cultural priorities, fragile institutions, and policy failures hollowed out the sector. Canadian voices need to be heard now, more than ever!
Sutherland House

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Species
nature | The Conversation | 3 December
Colonisation created many new hybrids

Sonora
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 5 December
Yaqui-led initiative uses ayahuasca and community renewal to heal addiction

Serotonin
psychoactive | The Microdose | 8 December
The discovery of the important neurotransmitter

Back to mother earth
nature | MAPS Bulletin / 8 December
The wild cure: nature, healing and psychedelics

Reclassified
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 10 December
Trump signs order making cannabis a Schedule III drug

Words and ways
science | Aeon | 12 December
How to talk to yourself

Reform
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 10 December
Is the public ready to change its mind on psychedelics?

Inconclusive
psychoactive.| The New York Times | 10 December
Scientific review of medical cannabis finds little evidence for its effectiveness.

David Luke
psychoactive | Popular Mechanics | 11 December
Psychedelics could lead to paranormal realms and explain consciousness

Boon
psychoactive | The European Correspondent | 12 December
Europe’s psychedelic revival

Gender roles
psychoactive | BBC | 13 December
Psychedelics reveal hidden sides to people’s Identity.

Comparing
psychoactive | The Guardian | 13 December
Psychedelics more effective than cannabis in treating OCD

Stonehenge and others
psychoactive | BBC | 14 December
Historical visions of magic mushrooms

Little people
psychoactive | The Microdose | 15 December
A certain boletus mushroom causes hallucinations from Papua New Guinea to China.

Othering
culture | Truthdig | 15 December
Being trans in Trump’s America

Habitually
psychoactive | The Conversation| 15 December
People relying on cannabis on the rise in Wales and England.

Monopoly
psychoactive  | Ecstatic Integration | 16 December
Is Christian Angermayer taking over psychedelic medicine?

Schizophrenia
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 19 December
Is there a link between the DMT in our brain and the feared mental condition?

Totalitarianism
culture | The Conversation  24 December
Hannah Arendt’s famous book about fascism holds important lessons for today

Legal highs
psychoactive | The Guardian | 25 December
Inside the US’s psychedelic church boom

Scientifically
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 28 December
Canadian centre for psychedelic research launched by hospital network

Resilient anniversary
culture | Bloomberg | 31 December
Amsterdam adds more land during its 750th birthday year.

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Plants of the Gods
Part 1 — Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: an Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard

Transform Drug Policy Foundation
An independent, UK-based charity working nationally and internationally towards a just and effective system of legal regulation for all drugs.

DanceWize
Harm reduction and help for psychedelic, and/or spiritual emergencies at festivals and other peer meetings are a necessity wherever people get together in large numbers.

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