Cobweb of Trips traces the literary and psychospiritual history of psychedelics in mid-twentieth-century Britain and beyond

Cobweb of Trips presents a literary history of psychedelics centered on mid-twentieth-century Britain and its wider cultural influence. Robert Dickins traces a psychospiritual thread through literature and the history of medicine, examining how early experimenters sought to define a social role for psychedelic experiences. The book connects spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty with political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, showing how changing cultural conditions shaped the meaning assigned to psychedelic trips. Its central perspective is historical and aesthetic rather than clinical or practical, framing psychedelic experience as a force that became woven into modern cultural history. The supplied description identifies the work as a 164-page hardback published in 2024.