My introduction to the intersection of psychedelics and Judaism came some five years before that best-ever Purim. The energy of Purim alone is enough to engender a psychedelic experience; but as we are commanded, substances like alcohol – or trippier substitutes – are an integral part of the program. I started to feel the blessed…
Detroit police… raided a psychedelic religious institution, Soul Tribes International Ministries. Police searched the building, seized substances and shut down the facility, calling it an illegal operation… “As a result of the operation, which involved DPD personnel, BSEED (Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department) inspectors, and the work of our city attorneys, illegal controlled substances…
Shaman Shu says ayahuasca told him to write Proposal E during his first experience… “I wrote the actual legislation based upon what the ancestors told me to do,” he says. “I was sitting in Costa Rica and I was like, ‘What? You want me to do, what?’ I never expected that… I hired a lawyer,…
The study found evidence of a pathway whereby the use of psychedelics increases spirituality, and in turn, leads to better emotion regulation. This improved emotion regulation then appears to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. Study authors Adele Lafrance and her colleagues say that increased spirituality and improvements in emotion regulation have been…
Right now, psychedelics are providing such re-enchantment for people. Visions, meaningful dreams, seemingly miraculous healing and the intervention of the spiritual realm into our daily lives can suddenly seem like a possibility once again. I realized the Psychedelic Renaissance had arrived and churches are woefully unprepared. As I entered my second year at Duke Divinity…
…SoMa facility is no ordinary chapel: it’s the second location of the Church of Ambrosia… a nondenominational religious organization that believes… psilocybin mushrooms are divine sacraments… an interfaith organization dedicated to expanding public access to psychedelic mushrooms… …magic mushrooms have been a part of religious practices around the globe for thousands of years… any adult…
The “sacred mushrooms,” as the church often calls them, are a Schedule I controlled substance that can carry a punishment of up to three years for possession, but registered 508(c)(1)(a) churches like Psanctuary [non-profit religious organization] have certain legal protections they say allow them to use mushrooms in controlled worship contexts. “We believe that Sacred…
The wood-loving Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata was first named by mycologists Richard Gaines and Gaston Guzman in 2007, based on mushroom samples taken in 2003 from wood chips at the side of a trail in… Pennsylvania. In its native range of the Northeastern U.S., mushrooms can typically be found from late April to early June, and occasionally all the…
“The only explanation I have, is it some sort of form of religious discrimination?” said Berke. The International Church of Cannabis opened its doors in 2017 and uses cannabis as a sacrament [in Colorado]. “The name of the sculpture is “Defender,” and it was given to us by the artist as a symbol to defend…
…the use of psychedelics as a spiritual path… the vast majority of both active and lapsed Christians are unaware of the rich mystical traditions in the Christian faith… …this openness to the idea that we may find the divine in our own experience – that in a sense we are God, that there is no…
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