London Fortean Society

London Fortean Society in partnership with Conway Hall present Joe Mellen: Bore Hole: “ How I came to drill a hole in my head to get permanently high ” £5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Monday 29 February 2016 7.30pm Change of Venue:  The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook event page Travelling to Morocco and Ibiza, then back to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen  discovers the pleasures of hashish, is captivated by the visionary intensity of LSD and, after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges, attempts the ultimate head trip, the bore hole. Strange Attractor press have released a heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen’s auto-trepanation memoir: Bore Hole which takes us deep into the dawning of the UK’s psychedelic counter culture, and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Joe discusses this memoir with us t...

7.45pm Thursday 25 February 2016 £4 / £2 concessions ( Advanced tickets ) Please note new venue:  The Pipeline , 94 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EZ. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page This event has sold out, please come and see us at The Pipeline for returns.  The 500-year-old Voynich Manuscript is renowned as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript” and “the Everest of historical code-breaking”. Over 200 pages of unfathomable text, strange diagrams and numerous drawings of impossible plants and tiny naked women, some find it beguiling; others think it totally mad.  The harder we seek for explanations for its countless oddities it seems the less we know. Is it insanely brilliant, or brilliantly insane? The only category it truly fits is Charles Fort’s “Damned Data” – phenomena for which science cannot comfortably account.  A plethora of Voynich theories ranges across a reassuringly Fortean panorama from conspir...