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Encyclopaedia Psychedelica International was an independent London-based magazine in the late 1980s that mixed a return to hippie values combined with new emerging technology, at a time when to call someone a 'Hippie' was considered an insult. This publication may be considered a rallying point for those who were looking for a greater degree of spirituality-based themes in everyday life, and simultaneously a call to action for the early cyberpunk community in the UK and beyond. It was a stepping stone towards the group's public event production activities, which included a rave called Evolution in 1990, and the Megatripolis nightclub, which was a regular club night attended by David Bowie and other counterculture personalities of the era.
Contributors to the magazine included: Neil Oram, Charles Stephens, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Pete Loveday, Tony Benn, Charles Bukowski, Robert Bly, Ysanne Spevack, and Richard Allen who went on to establish the neo-psychedelic Delerium Records label.
A poetry issue was guest edited by the poet and magician Stuart Nolan.
It was created in 1986 by the late Scotsman Fraser Clark who remained its editor through all 15 volumes which were actually produced. The intention of creating 100 volumes was never realised.