MetaFilter posts tagged with entheogens

Erik Davis'

kliuless — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:55:35 -0800

Expanding Mind - "This week's guest is Dennis McKenna, ethnobotanist, expert in the pharmacology of ayahuasca and other visionary plants, and brother of legendary mushroom bard Terence McKenna." (via) BONUS -Dangerous Minds -The Imagination Is What We Are: A Brief History of the Phantasm -The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness -Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life -Gaia in the Light of Modern Science -Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV -A Short Course In Synthetic Genomics -David Deutsch on our place in the cosmos

"Our whole approach is based on the idea that science matters at the FDA"

kliuless — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:50:34 -0800

The Economist on Drugs -- Scientists in North America, Europe and Israel are studying the use of MDMA, LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana and other banned psychoactive substances in treating conditions such as anxiety, cluster headaches, addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder. They are supported by private funds from a handful of organisations: the Beckley Foundation in Britain; the Heffter Research Institute and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in America. [related]

NOTHING ELSE CAN SAVE YOU. TRUST ENTHEOGENS TODAY!

homunculus — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:55:13 -0800

Chemical Salvation? The history of LSD as a Chick tract. [Via]

Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai

homunculus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:45:48 -0800

Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis. Psychology Professor Benny Shannon speculates that Moses may have been tripping when he saw God on Mount Sinai. [Via Mind Hacks.]

Peter Stafford, RIP

homunculus — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:15:11 -0800

Peter Stafford, psychedelics investigator and author of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia (PDF preview), has died. [Via BB.]

Turn on, tune in, get out

homunculus — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:42:40 -0800

Entheogens and Psychotherapy. A 2001 paper by Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar on the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics and his own experience with LSD. Now, because of this paper, he is no longer allowed to enter the U.S. [Via Mind Hacks.]

Turn on, tune in, drop out

daksya — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:16:30 -0800

A landmark rigorous study, 36 years after Walter Pahnke's Good Friday study ocuments the ability of psilocybin - the chemical in "magic mushrooms" - to trigger mystical experiences. 16 of 24 participants, who had no history of psychedelic use, rated the drug episode (after 2 months) to be among the 5 most meaningful experiences in their lifetime. A longer 40-year follow-up by MAPS on those who took LSD under the supervision of psychiatrist Oscar Janiger in the 1950s, found qualitatively the same result.