After my first magic mushroom psilocybin psychedelic experience at the age of nineteen, I decided that my screen name should be Graveyard Poet. There were three inspirations for this name at the end of my teenage years: 1.) the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (whose birthday was the day before …
Arcadia was an idyllic paradise, a rural sanctuary, that was longed for even in the days of ancient Greece and Rome as urban life dominated and pastoral life disappeared. Arcadia was a mystical, mythical realm for medieval Europeans. During the Baroque era, the Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (known as Guercino) created a painting named …
