We do not disagree that there is a surging interest… of psychedelic substances into the machinery of the dominant economic operating system. …we are trying to understand the contours… of our relations with the sacred… entheogenic… plants… so we can better navigate the complex ethics of what it means to engage… Original Article (Doubleblind):Why the…
The disease of loneliness will not be cured with glyphosate sprayed on the forests. It is not the rainforest that is to blame. The culprit is their society educated in endless consumption, in the stupid confusion between consumption and happiness that allows the pockets of power to fill with money. The culprit of drug addiction…
Psychedelic therapies are receiving unprecedented financial and political support – and much of it comes from the right. Psychedelics can certainly increase openness – but this can be openness to Nazism, eco-fascism or UFO cults as well as to peace and love. Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher and fascist admired by both Hitler and Steve Bannon,…
The more trust and confidence people have in themselves and their guides on the journey… the more impactful it will be. While our collective attitude about marijuana has continued to shift over the past decade, more recent and, when it comes to the potential for healing, even more exciting is what is happening with psilocybin.…
Of all the entheogens, psilocybin is the oldest and the least toxic. You’d have to consume your body weight in the stuff for it to actually kill you, and you’d have vomited it all up many times over before then. …I have generally been gentler with myself as if by reflex. I’m far more able…
A church in New Hampshire offers the use of ayahuasca… “a trip to the Amazon or whatever was totally out of the question ’cause I’m poor,” says Quiles. …several times a month, people pay around $700 for a weekend of ayahuasca in the woods… a 2006 Supreme Court ruling sided with a church serving ayahuasca,…
After reading the Soul Quest denial letter, I decided to conduct this in-depth scholarly analysis of the legal definition of religion under the First Amendment, considering the scientific research, the newly established archeological evidence, and the relevant case law. The Soul Quest denial letter leaves no doubt in my mind, and the mind of other…
“We’re seeing the emergence of a psychedelic religion or religious culture,” said Gary Laderman, a religion scholar at Emory University in Atlanta who teaches a popular course called “Sacred Drugs.” The first EntheoCon, advertised as a “psychedelic salon,” held Aug. 20, 2022, was organized by a new network of advocates… who aim to create awareness about…
Jesse Choper, another law expert at UC-Berkeley, [said] that the religion argument might work. …church has about 60,000 members… “a nondenominational, interfaith religious organization that supports the use and safe access” of certain natural psychedelics, according to its website. In the lawsuit, it outlined what it calls the “sacramental use” of cannabis, mushrooms and other…
In the US, religious groups have secured the right to use psychedelic drugs, under the first amendment’s protection of religious freedom… how are people supposed to procure the psychedelic mushrooms, which are permissible to carry and consume? “He’s practicing in the lane of what seems like sincere religious belief to me,” says Danny Peterson, a…
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