Why not say hallucinogen?
Ayahuasca: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
Readings to be completed for Friday 19th class discussion:
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/410/hoascacase.shtml
http://www.erowid.org/freedom/civil_rights/religion/religion.shtml
Ayahuasca among the Hubda Maku
DMT Snuffs - Cohoba, Yopo and Vilva
The Entheogenic Legumes http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt_culture1.shtml
Ayahuasca Healing Sessions
Ayahuasca and its Mechanism of Healing
Emerson: Harvard Divinity School Address
http://www.csp.org/experience/docs/emerson-harvard.html
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_law23.pdf
Recipes
Fri. 19: Religious Freedom discussion questions:
In a country that is dedicated to freedom of conscience and in the separation of church and state, what policy and legal hurdles do entheogens present? Who has the right to determine what is or is not a legitimate religion or religious practice? How might current laws accommodate entheogens?
What effects have entheogens already had on current religious practice, ritual, ethics, and the religious community? Consider:
A recent poll of over 1,300 Americans engaged in Buddhist practice showed that 83 percent had taken psychedelics ? and 71 percent believed that psychedelics can provide a glimpse of the reality to which Buddhist practice points. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (1996) (pp. 86-87).
Readings for Monday:
Huston Smith, Do Drugs Have Religious Import?
Huston Smith Interview: The Psychology of Religious Experience
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Mon. 22: Sacraments or Sacriledge?
Readings for Wednesday:
William James, Mysticism
David Steindl-Rast, The Mystical Core of Organized Religion
Readings for Monday:
Wade Davis, Plants of the Gods
The Peyote Way.org
Readings for Wednesday:
THE HOLY HERB/ Cannibis/Marijuana
Spiritual Use of Cannabis
1. Marijuana and the Bible http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_spirit2.shtml
2. Kaneh Bosm = ______?
3. "The Holy Herb"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/customs/customs_1.shtml
4. Sacrament and Incense for the Holy Temple
5. RASTAFARI:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/history/history.shtml
6. Mahabharta http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/dutt/maha12.htm
7. Indian hemp Drugs Commission Ch. IX
8. Holi (March 3, 2007)
9. THC Ministry
Readings for Friday:
"Sage of the Seers"
Salvia Divinorum: http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia_journal2.shtml
LSD
Psychodelics and Religion
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/clark.htm
LSD and religious experience http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/pahnke3.htm
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LSD/eleuch1.htm
Readings for Monday:
"Flesh of the Gods"
mycotheology
one journey
Manna and Mushrooms?
Maria Sabina
Mazatec Indians-The Mushrooms Speak
Concord Prison Rehabilitation Project
Prisoners to Prophets
Readings for Wednesday:
Sacred Tobacco:
Black Elk Speaks, Ch.1: The Offering of the Pipe
http://www.ncidc.org/tupe/sacred.htm#2
http://www.geocities.com/redroadcollective/SacredTobacco.html
http://www.biopark.org/peru/mapacho.html
http://www.shastalink.k12.ca.us/life/tobacco.html
Additional Readings for your research:
These short items in the chrestomathy sample how psychedelics appear in the archeological record. www.csp.org/chrestomathy
Communities that use entheogens
http://www.csp.org/communities/communities.html
Grof & Halifax: The History of Psychedelic Therapy with the Dying
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/dying.html
Goldsmith: Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Spirituality,
http://www.maps.org/research/tenlessons.html
