Patrick Lundborg and the Psychedelic Culture

An article about the psychedelic culture in Sweden written by Henrik Dahl and published on the last issue of Psychedelic PressUK reminded me of Patrick Lundborg,  Swedish psychedelic scholar, record collector, writer and founder of Lysergia, a treasure-website full packed with psychedelic info and culture and author of Acid Archives (2006), an essential  cult guide to (more then 400)  60's underground and psychedelic bands and more recently Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life (2012), a 500+  page tome which relates the long, exciting history of psychedelia, from the entheogenic mistery cult of  Eleusis temple 2500 years ago to the modern goa/trance full moon parties...
Then I found an interview with Patrick on Reality Sandwich but got the very bad surprise of finding out that he died just few weeks ago at 47....After Sasha and Christina Grof (writer, therapist, spiritual seeker and wife of Stanislav) another appreciated member of the psychedelic network has left the material dimension...
I wish to give my tribute to Patrick posting an excerpt of the interview (2012) posted on Psychedelic Baby.

You are releasing a brand new book entitled "Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life" and as far as we understand this is something entirely different than "Acid Archives"?
Yes, the "Psychedelia" book is a new and different work. It deals with a much wider field than the "Acid Archives" book, which was basically a guide-book for fans of old underground music. There are several chapters about music in the new book as well, but it's in the context of a bigger frame of reference, which is what is what I call psychedelic culture.
Your book is a research on so called "psychedelic culture". What is the current state of this so called culture today in your opinion?
In the 20th century we began what I call "the short cycle" of Psychedelia which began with peyote and mescaline experiments in the late 1890's-1920's, then really took off with Hofmann's discovery of LSD. The short cycle reached a peak in terms of popular attention in the late 1960's, then went into a quiet mode during the 1970's and 80's, and then it was revitalized in the early 1990's, with Terence McKenna replacing Tim Leary and drugs like DMT, ayahuasca and psilocybin replacing LSD...
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