Spirituality

PSI 2020 at OCF Spoken Word

PSI 2020 Chief Petitioners Tom and Sheri Eckert will be speaking at the Oregon Country Fair. The Eckerts’ plan would allow adults to participate in a series of sessions at a state-licensed “psilocybin service center” with a trained and registered “facilitator.” Friday, July 13th, at the Front Porch, 4:30PMSaturday, July 14th, at the Spirit Tower, 3:30PMSunday,…

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Judge dismisses Cannabis Church’s case defending weed as religious sacrament

In response, Bill Levin, who founded the church in 2015, said: “Cannabis is safer than Curtis Hill.”  Levin also said he plans to appeal. In her order dismissing the case, judge Sheryl Lynch did not address the defense’s contention that the church’s members are insincere about practicing a religion.  Marion County [Indiana, USA] Superior Court Jude Sheryl Lynch…

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Our ancestors got high, too

*John Marco Allegro shares the potent plant roots of Christianity.  HERE Virtually all human societies use mind-altering substances. What’s more, about 90 percent give drug-induced altered states of consciousness a role in their fundamental belief systems, according to a survey of 488 modern societies. And this isn’t new. Many psychoactive plants we consume today, and those that have fallen out…

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Sincerity, ‘religiosity’ challenged In ongoing Cannabis Church lawsuit

“People from organized religions were persecuting me for my belief in cannabis as sacrament. Demanding their secular members invade temples where believers obtain sacrament and learn the ways of peace, these persecutors relentlessly attacked with words of hatred and violence.” — from the sixth of “The Nine Epiphanies. LINK Thomas Fisher, representing the state, says…

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Storming the gates of psychedelia: Scientists commit to collaboration in the face of capitalist competition

The trouble is that healthcare in America exists within a competitive market economy, motivated by the insatiable quest of economic growth. Privatization by means of patenting or theft often precipitates the process of making profit. This means restricting access to common pool resources (e.g., putting a fence around a field of marijuana for the purpose…

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75 years since LSD discovery, thousands since use… entheogens

[Dr. Albert] Hoffmann -and [the 1960’s] counterculture- met with rejection and prejudices that Indigenous cultures have had to deal with for centuries. Indigenous use of entheogens, which are substances used for spiritual reasons, usually face discrimination by “mestizos” fueled by misinformation and prejudice over the use of substances that they simply call “drugs,” making them…

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Message from Santo Daime Dutch Churches in response to [one] verdict that makes Santo Daime illegal [outside the United States]

We are a praying people. During our ceremonies, we sing, meditate, pray… we believe it is not up to the one group of believers [scientific materialists, religious dogmatics, authoritarian dictatorships, insular tribal interests, etc.] to criminalize the other group [devout religious/spiritual practitioners and a myriad of diverse individuals and their relationships with particular plants]. ​​…

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Sacred Source Sanctuary: persecuted church or illegal pot dispensary?

“People from organized religions were persecuting me for my belief in cannabis as sacrament. Demanding their secular members invade temples where believers obtain sacrament and learn the ways of peace, these persecutors relentlessly attacked with words of hatred and violence.” — from the sixth of “The Nine Epiphanies. ​This is a confederation of eight… churches…

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