entheogen Archives ~ ERIE (Entheogenic Research, Integration, & Education)

Entheogenic Identity Politics

ERIE Vision — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:00:44 +0000

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

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Finding his way to paradise

ERIE Vision — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:00:09 +0000

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

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Exploring Mckenna’s Stoned Ape Theory

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:00:02 +0000

In his book Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, Terence McKenna crafts his carefully thought out theory proposing that our sub-human primate ancestors consumed psilocybin

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A Definition of Entheogen

ERIE Vision — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 16:00:37 +0000

To understand research in the field of psychedelic medicine, it is necessary to define the terms used. The history of uninformed attack on mind-expanding substances in the 1970s resulted in the use of terminology with negative connotations. We compare the

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Psychedelic Birth: A new way forward

ERIE Vision — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:00:41 +0000

Ten years ago my jaw unbuckled while listening to a friend recount the narrative of his birth. It was the late 70’s, and so, naturally, as his mother’s belly began contracting, she placed a hit of acid on her tongue

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Back to Eleusis: An Interview with Carl Ruck, PhD

ERIE Vision — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:00:40 +0000

Psychoactive sacraments have helped us experience the divine since the first stirrings of religion at the dawn of human consciousness. They were involved at the “very origin of humankind’s religious cognition, the awareness that there was a spiritual dimension to

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What is Psychedelic?

ERIE Vision — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 04:46:01 +0000

Molecules within plants, fungi, animals, and even our own brains have influenced human inner evolution since the dawn of prehistory through their potential to catalyze profoundly radical shifts in consciousness. Evidence exists, based on ancient artifacts, that Neolithic people used these

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