Psychedelic parallel worlds
Beat / In a quote you said, „Psychedelic-assisted therapies are moving into legality across the world, and yet it feels like no one is talking about the music.“ Was it your intention to create an album that can be a cure for other people?
Jon / Not at the time of starting it. I often say that I’m following an instinct, feeling or intuition when I’m writing music. It’s something that wants to come through. It wasn’t really until earlier this year when I was in a phase of writing that the title came to me. Maybe my subconscious was writing an album that could be helpful to some people. But the full title appeared after a psychedelic experience that I had. It seemed that I no other choice, and it needed to be called this way. It may sound strange, but that’s just the way it felt.
Beat / This psychedelic experience you refer to was it the trip to the Tayos caves in Ecuador?
/ No. That wasn’t psychedelic, but it was the original seed of the album for sure. There is a psychedelic history with these caves that we went to. The local indigenous tribe – the Shuar tribe – do have ayahuasca ceremonies in the cave, I was told. But I didn’t do that. The psychedelic medicines I have experienced
