This is so freaking cool, we can’t even believe it. Download here the first issue of High Frontiers, the 1984 “Space Age Newspaper of Psychedelics, Science, Human Potential, Irreverence & Modern Art” (PDF, 3.0MB).

High Frontiers, Issue 1, 1984 by RU Sirius and Somerset MauMau

From the High Frontiers editorial on page 3:

…just being alive in 1984 can be seen as being more psychedelic, mind-manifesting, or mind-blowing than being on acid in 1967. Considering this acceleration in our culture, I would like to very carefully suggest that the purposeful, intelligent, conscious use of the variety of substances popularly known as psychedelics might be intended to accelerate our minds and cleanse our spirits, that we may better perceive and integrate this swift changing. We are, after all, arriving at the technology which is indistinguishable from magick predicted by Arthur C. Clark. Since our scientific and technological know-how, which can kill us all on any given afternoon, can also be used to bring about an age of abundance, leisure, personal growth, space exploration, and an infinity of other possibilities, it would be wise for us to do what we can do to remove the perceptual blinders, that we may have the flexibility, optimism, and generosity of spirit to choose a planetary transformation over oblivion.

This is ripe writing for 2012. Thankfully it has time traveled to the future from 1984. This edition is loaded with magic, including wisdom from Tim Leary, Albert Hoffman, Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil and many more.

Mushroom Man in First Issue of High Frontiers (1984). Image Credit: kat

If you prefer, you can view the magazine archive online at the Internet Archive. Don’t miss out on reading The Official Psychedelic Newspaper of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games (hah!).

Thanks to R.U. Sirius and Somerset MauMau for posting this bit of history. Read more about the story behind this newspaper on R.U. Sirius’ blog ACCELER8OR.com

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