by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Addiction
The notion that hallucinogenic drugs played a significant part in the development of religion has been extensively discussed, particularly since the middle of the twentieth century. Various ideas of this type have been collected into what has become known as the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
Too many people, the words psychedelic and spiritual are dissonant on first hearing. Yet the use of psychoactive sacraments in shamanic and religious practices is found throughout history. The word entheogen, used to describe certain plants and chemicals when used for...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
Dr. X is a dad. Appropriately – boringly – at 4:37 p.m. on a national holiday, he is lighting a charcoal grill, about to grab a pair of tongs with one hand and a beer with the other. His kids are running around their suburban patio, which could be anywhere; Dr. X,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard. On this adventure I would have a guide, a therapist who, like an unknown number of other therapists administering psychedelics...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Addiction
From Tom Wolfe’s account of the LSD-loving Merry Pranksters and their bus ride across America in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test to Roger Sterling’s acid-inspired bout of introspection on television’s Mad Men, popular culture is rife with depictions of the...
