PSYCHEDELIC MALIK
The Magazine of Mental, Spiritual, and Geographical Exploration,
Experimental Short Stories, Psychedelia and Activism.
Thanks for your patience while I update and improve the website!
Psychedelic Malik was originally produced as a printed magazine with a limited print run,
the website was never sorted properly due mainly to my lack of web skills
and me turning my attention to promoting electronic/psychedelic music club events.
But for the Psychedlic Malik Fans out there I have good news, my passion to get this off the ground is back!!
So there will be articles appearing soon of all things Psychedelic by myself and others!
It would be good if yours did too, if you have an article idea or a piece of artwork
that you want to contribute, then email me for submission details.
psychedelic_malik@yahoo.co.uk
You will of course retain copyright over the submitted items, although submission means
that you give permission for it to be used on the Psychedelic Malik Website & related printed material.
WHO THE HELL IS MALIK?
Meeting Malik : The Story of how Malik Revealed Himself I met this guy around 12 twelve years ago at a bus stop near Haddfield, he was a very strange man. He was wearing a purple hat, decorated with yellow and orange circles, you could hardly see his face as the hat cast an ominous shadow over him. His hat was very large and looked like it could slide down onto his face at any moment. He had a long brown coat on and long slender shoes, he looked unique - yes more unique than strange. He did not say a word, but he did perform an amazing magical feat for me, utilising his coat - he lifted his right sleeve and brought out a bunch of yellow, red and pink flowers that disappeared after a few seconds in a puff of smoke. He proceeded to lift his right hand, and bent over as if to bow, his hat started to move and shake slightly, after a few more moments could see that the hat was being �sucked� up his sleeve.
He stayed solid in his bowing position and his long brown hair fell forward from its swept back position as it escaped the cocoon of his head -wear. As he gradually began to stand upright his face started to mould into that of Robert Anton Wilson�s, then it morphed into Timothy Leary�s likeness, then more rapidly it began to morph into many other artists� faces including John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Grant Morrison, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Page, Simon Posford, Jimmy Saville... and continued to do so for an hour, anyway that is how much time the High Street clock had told me had passed - as time for me had really stood still. When he had finished this amazing feat he once again bowed over and his hat appeared back out of his sleeve, then he once again placed it back upon his head, gathered his coat around his face and he himself disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving a trail of echoey laughter behind him; his laughter reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the East, and was truly unsettling. I never saw him again. ...That is apart from in my dreams, where he would regularly visit me to take me to wondrous places with majestic temples and shining lakes. The dreams would have background muzak from bands such as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Hawkwind, The Orb, Ozric Tentacles, Julian Cope and many more of atmospheric repute.
He would guide me around the places that he introduced me to and sometimes would let me wander alone for a while after he had taught me the appropriate rituals of respect and benevolence. I was never told the names of the places that I was taken to, but I reckon �Nirvana�, �Heaven� and �Utopia� could have fitted them quite well. I imagine that anyone who has taken any kind of non-addictive psychoactive drug or plant such as a South American Shaman, or anyone who has meditated intensely without drugs of any kind has also reached these places. These places are real, they exist on a plane, that the mind connects to the physical world. just like a needle connects two pieces of cloth. Psychedelic Malik is another dimension where these two worlds collide, by journeying with us we will take you to places beyond - to the places where you went as children, and where you still go in your dreams. Let Malik be your guide as he is mine, and let go of your mortal selves - rejoice in the sparkling rainbow that is Psychedelic Malik!!
The above short story/magazine idea was written one lunchtime on one very boring afternoon in the Government run department of one of its Legal-Aid offices where the author used to be employed. Thanks to the literature that we will be recommending to you I saw a way out of the cage-like, mind-numbing humdrum of the place, which included breaking the shackles of enforced ways of thinking and working that �head� office tries to force upon its employees, and getting away from the ever increasing efficiency-building that the organisation tries to rigidly enforce, and that was to do this magazine!
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OUR HEROES...!? OUR INSPIRATIONS!?
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MALIK EDITORIAL
Writing this introduction whilst realising that these words mean nothing outside of human interaction makes me feel rather useless. The Malikzine is therefore a waste of time and energy, and I apologise for wasting yours. However within human interactive �space� - within the borders of our universal mind, I feel that the Malikzine is a seriously interesting document. There are a number of people to thank for its existence, and for providing the inspiration to let �weird� thoughts roam free, these include Robert Anton Wilson - who I consider one of the Psychedelic chiefs (please forgive me for simplifying you!), his works have made my mind do the most exercise that it has ever dared do, the body sure as hell doesn�t - so the mind must make up for it! One of the other chiefs, �Sir� Timothy Leary, I thank not only for his general insubordanence and for illuminating minds even whilst being incarcerated, but for his subversive quote, �Turn on, tune in, drop out.�, which has mesmerised and haunted me since I can remember first hearing it in my teens. There are numerous other writers responsible for the birth of such a irresponsible rag, these include, Dr John Lilly, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Terence McKenna, Hunter S Thompson, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb, the Hernandez Bros, Peter Bagge, who amongst others must also be acknowledged for their clear �illustration� of the ideals of the underground. Whilst some readers may consider such illuminaries as successful and therefore commercially viable, I have no doubt that without them there would be no underground influencing of the mass market system that engulfs us. Psychedelic Malik is here to offer ideas of its� own, and to share and showcase the ideas of the contributors, but also to review and showcase works and ideas of the already established Chiefs of the underground and psychedelic arenas. Enjoy it, and don�t forget to participate, for Malik wants no one to be a passive observer. Malik wants you to turn off the television, and to turn on your mind. The continuance of the next stage of human evolution is here, but do not forget, as Timothy Leary declared, �You are never the same after you have had the veil drawn.�, and I take no responsibility for this happening to you.
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While amongst the several other projects I have running it takes a little time to build this site
- which is a temporary site anyway until i get a more professional site with a .com or .org
Heres some 'entertainment' for you! - Its not just an inward journey & I want to counteract 'their' propaganda!!
WWW.AVAAZ.ORG
Im also planning to have a section on this site for alerting
people to activities that they should be aware of, for example
the evidence wherever I find it to back up CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
Its pretty pointless just putting up information on'conspiracy theories'
You can find that anywhere on the internet, im adding evidence
that is anywhere up from seeming to support such theories to pretty solid evidence
As far as that can done on the interent anyway...
For example Bush Jnr was in the 'Skull and Crossbones' society in his time in
college in the USA? And as if that wasnt creepy enough, apparently John Kerry
may have been too? The 2004 election in the USA fixed? Surely not?
America is fast turning into a facist state under the junta that control its
government? Never? Well check this out...
and this...