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Michael Harner and the Birth of Core Shamanism: Bringing Ancient Practice to the Modern World
Michael James Harner (1929-2018) occupies a singular position in the history of Western engagement with shamanism. He was not a New Age guru who stumbled upon indigenous practices and repackaged them for profit.
R. Gordon Wasson: The Banker Who Rediscovered Psychedelic Mushrooms and Launched a Revolution
On the night of June 29, 1955, in a small Mazatec village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, a 57-year-old vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co.
The Eleusinian Mysteries: How Western Civilization May Have Been Founded on Psychedelic Initiation
For nearly two thousand years — from approximately 1500 BCE to 392 CE — the most important religious ceremony in the ancient Western world took place every September at a small town called Eleusis, thirteen miles northwest of Athens. The Eleusinian Mysteries, as they were called, initiated an...
5-MeO-DMT: The God Molecule and the Toad
5-MeO-DMT (5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is the most powerful naturally occurring psychedelic known to science. A single inhaled dose of 5-15 mg produces, within seconds, a complete dissolution of ordinary consciousness — the total annihilation of the self, the boundary between observer and...