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From: [e-mail] (James Kent)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.psychedelics,alt.psychoactives,alt.drugs.culture,alt.drugs.pot,alt.hemp,alt.rave,alt.culture.zippies
Subject: Psychedelic Illuminations FAQ
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 22:47:53 MST
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


The Following is a faq for Psychedelic Illuminations Magazine
Updated 4/18/95 by James Kent, Editor of PI
Any Questions or Comments should be directed to James Kent at:

[e-mail]

***************** CONTENTS ******************************

1. General Overview of Magazine
2. Contact Information
3. Detailed Overview of Magazine
4. Summary of Issue 7 (due out May 1st)
5. Subscription Info
6. Back Issue Info
7. Merchandising Info
8. Submission Guidelines
9. Advertising Info

**************** 1. GENERAL OVERVIEW *********************

Psychedelic Illiminations Magazine
Published Seasonally, 3-4 issues a year.
Each issues is 80+ pages.
$6.95 per issue
6 issues printed to date
Issue #7 due on newsstands May 1st.

Psychedelic Illuminations Magazine is a quarterly special interest
magazine dedicated to providing current and accurate information
relating to the safe and responsible useage of pshychedelic plants
and substances. Our goals are to promote the ideals of expanded
consciousness, human evolution, global harmony, and the concept of
"palnts as teachers". Our aim is not to advocate psychedelics, but
to provide a forum for intelligent discussions on psychedelic
pheneomenology.


************** 2. CONTACT INFORMATION ***********************

For Subscriptions/Distribution/Advertising/Merchandising Contact:

Ron Piper
Publisher, PI
PO Box 3186
Fullerton, CA 92634
714-733-1352 voice-mail
[e-mail] e-mail

For Editorial Queries/Submissions/Artwork/Product Reviews

James Kent
Editor, PI
956 10th Ave E. #102
Seattle, WA 98102
[e-mail] e-mail

*************** 3. DETAILED OVERVIEW ***************************

Psychedelic Illuminations Magazine is the ONLY mainstream source
for current news, research, trends, and articles relating to psychedelic
plants and compounds. In each issue of Psychedelic Illuminations youÆll
find:

NEWS
the latest information on new compounds, evolving legal issues, new research,
and new strategies used by the DEA to entrap and persecute nonviolent "drug
offenders". Also, regular constitutional law updates and strategies for how
to protect yourself should you become a victim of the "War on Drugs".

HEMP UPDATES
Follow the legal movements of the industrial hemp, medical marijuana,
harm reduction, compassionate use, and anti-prohibition movements.

ECOLOGY REPORTS
PI takes you beneath the canopy of the Amazon rainforest to study with indigenous
shaman, search for new jungle medicines, commune with the Gaian mind, and fight
the encroaching destruction of this precious environment.

ENLIGHTENING ARTICLES
Learn about West African psychedelic churches, the CIAÆs LSD conspiracy,
psychedelic aphrodisiacs, shamanic rituals, witchcraft, spirituality,
psychedelic philosophy, new techniques, new settings, beneficial mixtures
and dangerous side effects. Our regular contributors include Terence McKenna,
Jonathan Ott, Timothy Leary, Tom Lyttle, Rick Strassman MD, Rick Doblin, and
many other experts on the cutting-edge of consciousness.

IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS
Get inside the minds of todayÆs most controversial figures in the
psychedelic movement, including research chemists, underground
alchemists, renegade scholars, musicians, artists, choas theorists, and more!

ART, MUSIC & BOOK REVIEWS
Find out whoÆs making the hottest new sights and sounds to feed your head.

THE CYBERDELI
Your guide to the merging fields of psychedelics and electronic media. Find
on-line sources, electronic trip-toys, techno-rave updates, concert and tour
updates, trivia, valuable sources, etc...

TIPS AND TRICKS
Mushroom growing tips. Do it yourself home synthesis of popular compounds.
Extracting psychedelics from plants you can grow in your own garden. The truth
about toad licking. How to make your trips go better, farther, and faster. All
information is from experts in the field. PLUS source information on how to
find the raw materials you need to start your own garden or kitchen lab!

CURRENT RESEARCH
Learn about how the FDA has approved studies for psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine,
MDMA, LSD, marijuana, and ketamine. Find out how to support these studies
and volunteer your own head for research studies in your area.

PLUS
event calendars, trippy artwork, networking information, personal accounts,
contests, surprises, and more!

************** 4. ISSUE #7 ************************************

Issue #7 is due on newsstands on May 1st. Featured in Issue 7 is:

Art of The Other - Eye-popping transdimensional artwork from Erial
Manna From Heaven - Was Moses a Shroomer? by Steve Kubby
Stalking the Spirit of Ibogaine - Psychedelic addiction therapy
    by Arjuna De Silva
Interview With Tom Lyttle - Psychedelic Historian and Publisher
Interview With Jonathan Ott - On civil disobediance, ayahuansca, and more
LSD and Depression - a personal history
2CB Synthesis
A look back at the World Unity Festival
Examination of Jury Veto Rights

Plus news, hemp updates, reviews, the cyberdeli, rainforest news, and more.

*************** 5. SUBSCRIPTION INFO ***************************

Subscriptions to Psychedelic Illuminations are:

$30 for 4 issues (Increase due to rising paper costs and postal hike)
$47 for 8 issues.

OVERSEAS SUBSCRIPTIONS
Please add $3.00 per issue for shipping overseas. Please send American Express
Money Order only. No international money orders will be accepted.
Checks issued directly on Chase Manhattan Bank of New York with deposited U.S.
funds are also valid as well as any other check written against an American Bank.

Send Subscriptions Requests with check or money order to:

Psychedelic Illuminations Subscriptions
PO Box 3186
Fullerton, CA 92634

No credit card orders can be taken at this time.

All subscriptions are sent in opaque envelopes for privacy.
PI is also available at Tower Books, Barnes and Nobles, and all your favorite
underground bookstores. If your store doesnÆt carry PI, demand that they do!

************** 6. BACK ISSUES *****************************************

Currently there is a very limited supply of back issues Psychedelic
Illuminations: We have had to raise the costs of back issues because
they are now collectibles. We suggest that you subscribe to P.I. to avoid
missing any future issues if you have not already done so.

Back  issues are available as follows:

Issue #1 - Not available at this time (possibly reissued in near future)
Issue #2 - Very limited   $10.00 ea.
Issue #3 - Very limited   $10.00 ea.
Issue #4 - Limited        $ 8.00 ea.
Issue #5 - Surplus        $ 7.00 ea.
Issue #6 - Surplus        $ 7.00 ea.

Please add $1.50 s/h for the first 3 issues orders. $.50 per issue for
each issue over 3.

************** 7. MERCHANDISING *******************************

PI distributes a wide variety of informational materials on psychedelics
including books, tapes, videotapes, and CD's. Please see a copy of the
magazine for available items or send requests for electronic catalog to
PI Merchandise at PI [e-mail].

PI also occasionally distributes rare ethnobotanicals to promote shamanic
plant survival and global ecological diversity. Please query for price and
availability.

************** 8. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES    ************************

If you would like to submit an article or some artwork for publishing
consideration, please query our Editor, James Kent, at:

James Kent
Editor, PI
956 10th Ave E. #102
Seattle, WA 98102
[e-mail] e-mail
714-733-1252 voice-mail

Please have some familiarity with the magazine and the types of articles
we run. We are always looking for celebrity interviews (related to
psychedelics), new research and experimentation, psychedelic philosophy (as
related to nature of consciousness, reality, etc.), book reviews,
spiritual musings, ecology and hemp updates, cyber-dellic and techno-rave
related information, and generally off-the wall stuff that will never
be published anywhere else. Although we may edit submissions for clarity
and readability, we do not censor. Any submissins relating to experimentation
and useage must be exact and verifyable. For legal reasons we cannot publish
any unfounded or potentially hazardous information.

ARTICLES:
We prefer to work with electronic submissions. If you do not have e-mail
access and would like to submit a disk, please make sure it is formatted
for DOS/IBM/Windows use. Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, or ASCII .txt files
preferred. Although Mac files can be read off of DOS formatted disks, Mac
formatted disks cannot be accepted at this time. All hardcopy submissions
must be clearly typed and double spaced. Handwritten and/or badly photocopied
submission will not be read. Please include daytime and evening phone numbers
and other relevant contact information. If you want submissions returned,
please include a self-addressed-stamped-envelope (SASE)

ARTWORK:
Please send photocopied samples. Do not send originals. Include daytime
and evening phone numbers and other relevant contact information. If you
want submissions returned, please include a self-addressed-stamped-envelope (SASE)

PAYMENT:
PI does not generally pay for submissions other than providing free issues of
the magazine to our contributors. If a story is exceptionally good, from a well
known author, or is HOT, arrangements for payment can be made (generally $25 to
$100). I a writer is good and would like to become a regular contributor, payment
arrangements can also be made.

******************* 9. ADVERTISING INFORMATION ******************************

The advertising information is as follows:

Current Circulation - 10,000 copies
Demographic Information - None

Ad Sizes at Rates

BLACK AND WHITE
Full Page - 9 3/4"h x 7 1/2"w  = $750
Half Page - 4 3/4"h x 7 1/2"w (horiz) OR 9 3/4"h x 3/12"w (vert) = $500
Third Page Column - 9/34"h x 2 1/4"w = $400
Quarter Page - 4 3/4"h x 3 1/2"w = $300
1/6th page (half column) - 4 3/4"h x 2 1/4"w = $175
1/8th page  - 2 1/4"h x 3 1/2"w = $100 (business card sized)

Color ads can be negotiated on a per issue basis.
Discounts for placement orders on 3 issues or more.
Ads can be designed for you at no extra charge.
Priority placement within specific feature or section is arranged
  on a first-come first-served basis.
Classified advertising available. Please query at [e-mail]

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