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“Joe Mellen’s memoir has achieved legendary status… hailed as the next step in human evolution, denounced as a tragic example of drug experimentation, and endlessly retold as an irresistible anecdote of supreme madness.
It has become the non plus ultra of consciousness expansion, the ultimate cutting edge of the psychedelic Sixties.” — From the introduction by Mike Jay.
Bore Hole takes us deep into the early days of the UK’s psychedelic counterculture and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Traveling through Morocco and Ibiza, and then returning to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen discovers the pleasures of hashish, becomes fascinated by the visionary intensity of LSD, and—after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges—attempts the ultimate head trip: the bore hole.

“This is the story of how I ended up drilling a hole in my head to stay high forever,” — Joe Mellen.








- I’ve got a mate who wants to get it done—what should he do?
- I wish I knew. I heard there’s a guy doing it in Mexico for $2,000, and you can get it done in Ecuador and Egypt. There are doctors who will take your money. But we’re talking a lot of money here.
I drilled a hole in my own skull to stay high forever, Vice, by John Doran, February 12, 2016