ISSN 1468-8417
4 papers in the library · publishing 2026
Green Letters October 12, 2026 Peter Sands
This article examines the relationship between Gaian ecology and psychedelic experience in the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin and the work of ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna. Both authors use psychedelics to open perspectives on symbiosis as a model for more equitable human–nature relationships, Le Guin through the association of planetary symbiosis with a cooperative alien society...
Green Letters July 7, 2026 Jennifer S. Henke
This contribution discusses Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013), a British folk horror film featuring a key ‘trip scene’, against the backdrop of contemporary discourse that frames the psychedelic experience as a tool for ecological awareness. Drawing on film, fungi, psychedelic studies, and the environmental humanities, I argue that the film raises the expectation of a (magic)...
Green Letters June 19, 2026 Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
This essay focuses on the writings and trip reports of several key figures of the first psychedelic revolution from an eco-critical perspective. Although the Earth Movement can be said to have emerged from the countercultural ethos of activists heavily influenced by the psychedelic revolution, the relationship of these earliest psychedelic advocates – such as Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary – to...
Green Letters June 18, 2026 Maria Sledmere
This article examines how the work of contemporary American poet Dana Ward generates ecological thinking through ‘infinity lyric’: a mode shaped by psychedelic aesthetics, drifting attention and shifting scales of perception. By close reading Ward’s two collections, This Can’t Be Life (2012) and The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (2013), in conversation with poststructuralist, new materialist and...