The pope met an emissary from the psychedelic world at a “holy meeting” at the Vatican, where a Jesuit lawyer named Brian Muraresku presented Pope Francis with a manifesto for a psychedelic “New Reformation.” Pope Francis accepted a copy of Muraresku’s 2020 book The Immortality Key at the meeting, which took place in late 2021 or early…
Zide Door will close its location in the city’s SOMA neighborhood with its pastor citing harassment from the San Francisco Planning Department. The church also accused the planning department of criticizing the church in the media. Hodges said that he is concerned that the Planning Department’s “targeting” of the church could constitute religious discrimination… Zide…
…the state’s first psychedelic church is operating in El Paso County. State Representative Judy Amabile, D – Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Larimer counties… explained… “As long as the people who are members of the church are not required to pay anything for the product, then yes, that would be legal.” That’s the concept at…
Gratitude Sanctuary, known as Sanctuaire de la Gratitude in French… in Ottawa says the group believes people receive “their own teachings when entering the sacred space opened by the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms.” …first asked Health Canada about an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in January 2022… Health Canada said it was…
As psychedelics re-enter mainstream, with psilocybin legalized for recreation in Colorado, and for therapeutic use in Oregon, millions of Americans are trying them for the first time, and some are walking away – quite by surprise – true believers. In stumbling upon the connection between mushrooms and the sacred, Brinkerhoff and Worwood are discovering a…
It has been proposed that psychedelics promote wellbeing through spiritual-type transformations, involving changes in metaphysical beliefs… the results indicate that Idealism specifically, not non-physicalist beliefs generally, mediate a link between the use of psychedelics and wellbeing… metaphysical beliefs are typically abstract and non-falsifiable… In terms of predictive coding neuroscience, such as the free energy principle,…
Those who take psychedelics say they maintain their sobriety because the plant-based psychedelic is non-addictive and is being used medicinally or for spiritual enlightenment — not to numb out. “Members are being punished and expelled from their recovery groups and fellowships due to ignorance, judgment and misinformation in direct violation of our traditions,” Vanessa Crites,…
…psychedelics have been an essential companion in our relationship… it’s the secret to our long-lasting marriage. Through much practice and commitment, we have developed an open, honest communication style, and we can have hard conversations without being high. But the advantage of psychedelics… is that they help us to be vulnerable by quickly dropping our defenses,…
In five years… Church of Ambrosia has amassed 106,000 members across its two locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Ambrosia members pay $10 to join and $5 to enter the church… granting them access to church sacraments… magic mushrooms… It is thought there are now anywhere between 200 and 2,000 psychedelic churches in the US…
…if you’re a middle-aged-ish parent who finds themselves, consciously or subconsciously, deconstructing all the things society has taught us to value, while at the same time grappling with growing children who no longer look to us for all the answers and whom we can no longer protect from the social toxins that are seeping into…
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