Spirituality

A Christian approach to psychedelics

This is a book (Michael Pollan’s new book, (How To Change Your Mind: What The New Science of Psychedelics Tells Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence) about LSD and magic mushrooms from which religious conservatives can learn a great deal. I encourage you to read it with an open but critical mind. Let me…

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Spirituality

Glut of marijuana in Oregon is cautionary tale…

*book copies available at ECfES.org Public Lending Library (this copy hand-signed by Stephen Gaskin of the Farm in his book, Cannabis Spirituality) For now, Oregon’s smaller marijuana businesses are trying to stay afloat. A newly formed group will launch an ad campaign this fall to tell Oregonians why they should pay more for mom-and-pop cannabis. Oregon Craft…

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Spirituality

This is why psychedelics improve your relationship

Psychedelics are truly being studied as medicine and not a menace. The promise of psychedelics as a treatment for PTSD seems to have no ceiling, but other findings have shown that psychedelics improve relationships. Finding a partner is one of life’s most worthwhile challenges. Magic mushrooms and MDMA and LSD might be catalysts to a…

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Anthropology

Agriculture …the “Iboga culteur”

As part of the domestication of this plant with medicinal properties … [he] has developed a plot of 2.5 hectares. 9800 plants have been planted for a year. “The idea came to me from the research that was asked of me by [a] Professor a few years ago. He had asked me to study the…

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Anthropology

Maybe white people shouldn’t take drugs from Indigenous cultures

*ECfES recognizes the direct human/plant relationship HERE. Of course, not all non-native people who take ayahuasca [or other potent plants]… [ingest it]… purely for recreational purposes; some want to pay homage to indigenous wisdom, [and also for other legitimate reasons] … [but generally speaking] white people’s drug usage in general [has been historically] filled with hypocrisies……

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