psychedelics

For years, in addition to writing about it numerous times for RD , I’ve included a section on psychedelics and religious experience in my Introduction to Religion course. When I first began to teach…

The city of Hazel Park, Michigan made national headlines last week after its city council voted unanimously to decriminalize entheogens , or naturally occurring psychoactive drugs consumed for…

If surveyed about the relationship between religion and drugs, I’d wager that a majority would not see any relationship at all. If they did see a relationship, they’d likely view it negatively: drugs…

Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions recently held a discussion titled “ What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy ?”, the purpose of which was to explore the role that spiritual…

It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the world of wellness as offering trenchant critiques of neoliberal capitalism. But let’s try. Netflix’s The Goop Lab…

A recent journal study found that the majority who use the psychedelic DMT do so for the expressed purpose of spiritual exploration. Will that kind of data hurt the prospects for the future study of psychedelics?

Joyce Carol Oates’s hefty new novel, A Book of American Martyrs, reveals an America haunted by a mysterious, ultimately inexplicable force— religion—a force in eternal conflict not only with pluralism…

Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary’s famous exhortation still influences our view of so-called psychedelic or hallucinogenic substances. We might associate psychedelics with the excesses of…

Spiritual experiences can occur in a hospital setting as well as in a shamanistic ritual, says researcher.