Graham St John

Cultural researcher and author, University of Fribourg

Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is the executive editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. His latest book is Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (2015).

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Written by Graham St John

Black-and-white photo of a person with butterfly wings dancing on a vast, empty landscape under a cloudy sky.

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Subcultures

The big empty

How an impossibly flat expanse of absofreakinglutely nothing inspires creativity and transformation at Burning Man

Graham St John

Colourful abstract painting with swirling patterns in red, green, and yellow on a black background, resembling a symmetrical design.

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Subcultures

The spirit molecule

The theory that the brain produces its own psychedelic compound provokes pop-culture enthusiasm and scientific controversy

Graham St John