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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, from India to England and Canada

Andrew Jones explores the connection between LSD and the origins of clinical theology illuminating the...
LSD in South America

The First Applications of LSD-25 in South America (1954-1959)

The first LSD experiments in South America in the 1950s were carried out similarly to...
Roger Heim

“I am a scientist!” Roger Heim’s interdisciplinary and transnational research on hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the problem of divination)

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and...
ecology psychedelics

Why Land and Ecology Matter for Global Psychedelics

Land and ecology matter to the global psychedelics movement because it is a movement born...
Chacruna welcomes submissions to their Global History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines series.

Call for Submissions – Global History of Psychedelics

Chacruna invites submissions to our Global History of Psychedelics series. The ongoing series highlights the...
nectar of the blue goddess: consuming soma in west bengal india

Nectar of the Blue Goddess: Consuming Soma in Bengal, India

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars...
LSD can be connected to the history of ergot

Psychotropic Drugs from and in the Fields. Rural Roots and Collective Effects of LSD

Ergot is a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and serves as the raw material...
From Bwiti to Ibogaine and back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe iboga

From Bwiti to Ibogaine and Back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe iboga

Julien Bonhomme explores how Euro-American psychedelic communities have appropriated Bwiti ibogaine rituals, creating a liminal...
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...
Voacanga africana plays a role in the global history of psychedelics.

From Rubber Adulterant to Ceremonial Psychedelic: Voacanga africana in the Transnational Imagination, 1894–2018

Timothy Vilgiate looks at how the story of Voacanga africana is an example of how...
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