Hey all, I've been sitting on this post for quite a while but finally decided there was no harm in bringing up the idea. The two issues of The Nexian that saw the light of day were some of the most special and well put-together works to come from the psychedelic community in recent history as I see it. However, after the third issue never reached completion, there were murmurs for a few years about attempts to bring it back which never came to fruition. Now it's been about five years since all public discussion of it has fizzled out, which is a huge shame because of how important I think it was - doing something that nobody else was really doing. Of course, there are other magazines like DoubleBlind which have been successful and dedicated to psychedelics, but none that were born from such a collaborative community effort in the same way that the Nexian was intended to be.
I wanted to ask/suggest/volunteer/reignite a conversation regarding any future that The Nexian might have. It's certainly been a very valuable resource to me, and I think in the years since the last issue there's been a rich source of new advancements, stories, and people that could realistically lead to a project like this coming back. We've seen a number of losses in the psychedelic community that have gone largely under the radar since the previous issue, a great deal of advancements in legalization, science, administration, and understanding of these substances, notably DMT, and new figures that have emerged onto the psychedelic scene that weren't present ten years ago. I know there were interviews at the very least planned with Graham Hancock and the Greys for issue 3, and I'm sure there were a good amount of submissions and hard work that never got to be finalized from across the community. I'm not sure how much of that would still be relevant all these years later, nor who might have them anymore as The Nexian website no longer exists to my knowledge, but I think it's good to point out that much of the foundation has seemingly already been laid out, and after all these years that it's been left to simmer it seems like the perfect time to come back to it.
Obviously, this would largely depend on community interest, and I'm not aware of the full history of the Nexian's creation as I had nothing to do with it, but I think it's something very valuable, and is something that I'd certainly be willing to put in a lot of work towards, so I figured I'd put this out there to see if there's any interest in making it happen.
I wanted to ask/suggest/volunteer/reignite a conversation regarding any future that The Nexian might have. It's certainly been a very valuable resource to me, and I think in the years since the last issue there's been a rich source of new advancements, stories, and people that could realistically lead to a project like this coming back. We've seen a number of losses in the psychedelic community that have gone largely under the radar since the previous issue, a great deal of advancements in legalization, science, administration, and understanding of these substances, notably DMT, and new figures that have emerged onto the psychedelic scene that weren't present ten years ago. I know there were interviews at the very least planned with Graham Hancock and the Greys for issue 3, and I'm sure there were a good amount of submissions and hard work that never got to be finalized from across the community. I'm not sure how much of that would still be relevant all these years later, nor who might have them anymore as The Nexian website no longer exists to my knowledge, but I think it's good to point out that much of the foundation has seemingly already been laid out, and after all these years that it's been left to simmer it seems like the perfect time to come back to it.
Obviously, this would largely depend on community interest, and I'm not aware of the full history of the Nexian's creation as I had nothing to do with it, but I think it's something very valuable, and is something that I'd certainly be willing to put in a lot of work towards, so I figured I'd put this out there to see if there's any interest in making it happen.
dispensaries. Dana Larson runs a Grey area store front that sells Mushrooms. Believe he also sells other botanicals that are technically illegal as well (Coca Tea).