Patrick Lundborg

Patrick Lundborg (born 1967) is a writer on pop culture and author of the books The Acid Archives (2006; second edition 2010) and Psychedelia-An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way Of Life (2012).

Lundborg has a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Science from Stockholm University, with additional studies in classic Philosophy and the history of Religion. With special focus on psychedelic culture, Lundborg has published five books and written numerous magazine essays and album liner notes within the field. Among his earlier works are The Age Of Madness (1992), a guide to '60s garage compilations and 45s, and 13th Floor Elevators-The Complete Reference File (1999, 2002). In recent years, Lundborg's writings have also appeared in magazines such as Ugly Things (US), Shindig! (UK), Flashback, (UK), Fenris Wolf (Sweden), and Misty Lane (Italy).

The Acid Archives, Lundborg's most popular work to date, went through four printings in its first edition from 2006. The book documents and reviews 4.000 underground LPs from the USA and Canada, 1965-1982, and has been reviewed in leading music magazines such as Mojo and The Wire. The Second Edition, published in August 2010, was re-designed as a full color work, and expanded with 100 new pages of data and images.

Published in 2012, Psychedelia is Lundborg's most ambitious work to date. Over the course of 500 pages, the book examines psychedelic culture and its relation to Western mainstream and pop culture, beginning with the hallucinogenic rites at Eleusis in classic Greece, and ending with today's all-night dances to electronic 'psy' music and the current underground cultures around DMT, psilocybin and ayahuasca. Substantia space is also devoted to the LSD-driven cultural explosion during the counterculture era of the 1960s-70s. Drawn from 20 years of research, the book works both as a psychedelic encyclopedia, and a riveting tale of an underground spiritual culture that has co-existed and corresponded with the main thrust of Western societies.