Amsterdam: Foundation for Independent Thinking, 1970. First edition. 21x16cm, 38pp. Reproduced from typescript. Staple bound in beige card wrappers with title on front. Few marks and smudges to covers, wear at staples. Very good.

A fascinating and somewhat grisly figure of the psychedelic era in Western Europe was Hugo Bart Huges.  Huges, who worked as a librarian, attended medical school in Amsterdam but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of drug use.  He put his medical education and propagation of LSD application to practice by drilling a hole in his own head whilst high, a process called trepanation.

The belief system of Huges and his few disciples who also attempted the feat, was based on the idea that when humans began to walk upright, blood drained out of the brain.  Trepanation, he argued, would improve blood flow in and out of the brain, and create a permanent high which might explain why our four legged friends behave so strangely.  

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