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LSD and the Origins of Clinical Theology, from India to England and Canada

Beatitude, Dread, and Mother-Blaming: LSD and the Origins of Clinical Theology,...

Andrew Jones explores the connection between LSD and the origins of clinical theology illuminating the striking gendered connection to mother-blaming. Jones shows how psychedelic experiences were navigated in a Christian theological context through the examination of a particular international collaboration that took place in the mid-1900s between a Canadian and a Brit.

New Urban Practices Around Kambô

What is this substance, and what does this secretion of a frog—spread on a global scale and claimed to be able to heal an...

Ayahuasca, Capitalism and the New Age

Entrepreneurism, the processes of initiating and enterprising one’s own business or organization, emerges all around us, and mostly proliferates in potential business settings that...

The Resurrection of Jurema (1)

Reporter recounts his experience as a volunteer in a Brazilian study that investigates the antidepressant potential of a psychedelic substance extracted from a tree native to the semi-arid Caatinga Region.
Ayahuasca Women Indigenous

Gift of the Spider Woman: Spinning, weaving and womanhood among the...

"Shamans say these geometric designs were obtained from the Sangariite guardian spirits who appear in visions induced by ayahuasca and other plants" The moon is...

Pieces of Ayahuasca, a Cash Crop

I am presenting here several excerpts from A Cash Crop, my last multimedia book, that shows how Banisteriopsis caapi, once an abundant and commercially worthless plant...

Researchers Demand Reparations to Mazatecs for Mushroom “Spirit”

There is an emerging multi-billon dollar market for psychedelic therapies as the research becomes more mainstream. As for-profit companies begin to commodify psilocybin, researchers and activists demand these companies pay reparations for the stolen knowledge from the Mazatec people and engage in a reciprocal relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Powick Psychiatric Hospital was at the center of lsd-assisted therapy discourse for a brief time.

Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map

Between 1952 and 1964, the UK's Powick Psychiatric Hospital served as a center of LSD-assisted therapy. Ronald Sandison stood at the center of this activity, publishing papers in psychiatric journals and presenting at conferences, which temporarily brought the UK to the center of therapeutic LSD use. Wendy Kline explains why things changed in the mid-1960s.
Peyote Culture

Psychedelic Lizard Kings and the Other: Culture, Race and the Frontiers...

There is a scene in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film, The Doors, where the rock quartet and their female company travel to a desert and...

Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night

The Path of Day Henchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru's Manu National Park, left home one morning to go...
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