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Vito Corleone/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’re in the middle of a psychedelic renaissance. Mainstream books like Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind (2018) and a wave of promising research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics have produced a ton of interest in a class of drugs once considered taboo. But a new book, The Immortality Key, has opened up a fascinating discussion about the historical role of psychedelics in the Western world, going all the way back to ancient Greece. The best way I can describe it is to say it’s an old-fashioned detective story, l...

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Religious experiences can be had by many methods; meditation, fasting, feats of endurance, the list goes on.  One method in particular, however, has proven consistently reliable – psychedelics.  In the 60s, a generation of young people were gifted direct religious experiences thanks to the discovery of LSD.  This led to a fascination with Eastern religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, that had maps for such experiences.  Many uncovered the mystic strands in the faiths of their culture of origin.  Many questions arose.  Why did these substances evoke religious...

Posted on December 23, 2020 | Views: 955 cwebb2020-12-23T03:11:07-08:00 by Dr. James Cooke: Religious experiences can be had by many methods; meditation, fasting, feats of endurance, the list goes on… One method in particular, however, has proven consistently reliable – psychedelics.  In the 60s, a generation of young people were gifted direct religious experiences thanks to the discovery of LSD.  This led to a fascination with Eastern religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, that had maps for such experiences.  Many uncovered the mystic strands in the faiths of their cultu...

A theory of everything extreme The 2010s witnessed the rise of ultra-right proto-fascist elements in Europe’s politics The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist and tweets @FarrukhKPitafi India is witnessing a fresh round of protests. Indian farmer unions are protesting to demand the repeal of three laws for the past two months. As expected, the BJP government has used the national mainstream media to malign protesters by calling them Khalistani separatists or stooges of Pakistan or China. When this was not enough, and media’s attempts to reduce the nationwide agitation to minority ...