The Greening of Psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change. Therefore I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools
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Stanislav Grof believes that psychedelics loosed “the Dionysian element” on 1960s America, posing a threat to the country’s puritan values that was bound to be repulsed. (He told me he also thinks the same thing could happen again.) Roland Griffiths points out that ours is not the first culture to feel threatened by psychedelics: the reason R. Gord
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The overcompensation of psychedelic activism:
It’s obviously and objectively wrong that psychedelics are as illegal as they are. Even if you don’t think acid should be sold in gas stations (I don’t), for decades they’ve been scheduled in a way so that researchers and practitioners with the best intention aren’t able to touch them.
This isn’t an exc
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