Decriminalize Nature Oakland: Restoring Our Roots educational campaign sprouts into action.
ERIE Review: Decriminalize Nature Oakland
A long time ago when the sky kissed me back
School was out on that beautiful San Francisco spring day with protest in the air. Sagittarius dropped by to see if I wanted to go tripping around. His battered blue Monza convertible was running again and he had the top
Psychedelic plants for personal, psycho-spiritual development and healing by Astrid Hahner
“But what is a scholar? One who can not cross any borders, in fear of being excluded from his academy? Do we stand here before the celebrated fool, who is on the spot where the academics do not dare to
ERIE: Preparing the soil for a modern Eleusis
If the Mysteries of Eleusis are to be resurrected, if we are to reestablish a living connection with our collective unconscious and with the natural planet that gives us life, then there must be new pathways opened to function like
A New Understanding of Psilocybin
Psilocybin mushrooms continue their co-evolution with humanity. In general, the effects include euphoria, visual and mental hallucinations, changes in perception, a distorted sense of time, and spiritual experiences. Our human ancestors around the planet used psilocybin mushrooms dating back thousands
Event: Mushrooms and Entheogenic Transhumanism
We would like to invite you to our first educational event as an independent 501(c)3: Mushrooms and Entheogenic Transhumanism! We enjoyed our time at CIIS, but it is time to move out into the greater community. Thank you CIIS for
Integration as Dialogue: Interview with Richard Doyle
This past fall 2015, ERIE interviewed University of Pennsylvania Professor Richard Doyle, author of Darwin’s Pharmacy. In this book, Doyle coins the term ecodelic as an additional option for psychedelic or entheogen; referring to psychoactive earth medicines that help individuals
Entheogenic Identity Politics
Over the next period, we will be curating a Cognitive Liberty hashtag campaign, offering a selection of images and stories in support of the entheogenic coming-out process. This already challenging process is made even more difficult by decades of politics
The Future of Drug Policy Reform
To date, the (student) drug policy reform movement has been primarily known for its work on cannabis policy reform. This is understandable – the movements to decriminalize and legalize medical cannabis started back in the 1970s. Recent changes in state
Finding his way to paradise
My Singaporean friend, professor and poet Kirpal Singh and I cruised along the narrow lanes that wind through the rainforests of East Hawaii, on the Big Island, somewhere south of the old plantation village of Pahoa, until we found the