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Thursday 5th November 2026 · 7–9pm BST · Online via Zoom
Henri Michaux went inward and found a universe with its own geography, its own creatures, its own laws. He took mescaline to get there faster. He wrote what he found with the precision of a cartographer and the urgency of an exorcist.
His writing does something unusual. It makes the strange feel inevitable and the familiar feel suddenly, slightly wrong. The creatures that inhabit his interior are described with the seriousness of a field biologist. The mescaline experiments are reported with the precision of a scientist. And underneath all of it is the sense that he is trying to get something out of himself. Onto the page, out of his body, exorcised.
In this workshop we sit with that writing until the strangeness becomes familiar — and the familiar becomes strange. We ask what Michaux found in the space within, and what it opens in us.
No prior reading of Michaux is needed.
*Cabinet events are recorded and archived for Patreon subscribers — a growing library for those who cannot attend live. By booking a place you are consenting to the session being recorded.
Thursday 5th November 2026 · 7–9pm BST · Online via Zoom
Henri Michaux went inward and found a universe with its own geography, its own creatures, its own laws. He took mescaline to get there faster. He wrote what he found with the precision of a cartographer and the urgency of an exorcist.
His writing does something unusual. It makes the strange feel inevitable and the familiar feel suddenly, slightly wrong. The creatures that inhabit his interior are described with the seriousness of a field biologist. The mescaline experiments are reported with the precision of a scientist. And underneath all of it is the sense that he is trying to get something out of himself. Onto the page, out of his body, exorcised.
In this workshop we sit with that writing until the strangeness becomes familiar — and the familiar becomes strange. We ask what Michaux found in the space within, and what it opens in us.
No prior reading of Michaux is needed.
*Cabinet events are recorded and archived for Patreon subscribers — a growing library for those who cannot attend live. By booking a place you are consenting to the session being recorded.