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LSD [Flashback]

March 07, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.

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Drugs and Religion: Same Thing?

January 20, 2020 1 Comment

Gary Laderman So, does your chocolate or tobacco consumption “enchant” your world?

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A Night on Drugs in Amsterdam

December 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman It’s not what you think. Or maybe it is what you think. On the other hand, it doesn’t matter what you think…

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Psychedelics for Mind, Body, and…Spirit?

November 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman But it is in this more ambiguous, liminal conceptual space, between medicine and recreation, body and spirit, religion and science, that altered states of consciousness and mind altering substances do their best work.

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Just Say Yes: In Drugs We Trust

October 21, 2019 2 Comments

Gary Laderman Anyone interested in the new frontiers of American religion should pay attention to how Americans love to say yes to their drugs.

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LSD and the Rabbis: Conclusion

December 08, 2014 1 Comment
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Shalom Goldman As a culturally and politically aware New York City teenager, I knew that there was a buzz among bohemians and literati about LSD use. That in the early 1960s artists, musicians and poets were using psychedelic drugs was not exactly news. And that some of these artists were Jews (in a city a quarter of whose population was Jewish) was not exactly news either.

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LSD and the Rabbis: Part II

October 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
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This article is Part II in a three part series. Click here for Part I and Part III. By Shalom Goldman In utilizing intoxicants to heighten individual religious experience, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was influenced by the emerging zeitgeist of the early 1960s, a

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Holy Smoke

January 21, 2014 Comments are off

By Shalom Goldman Since the 1960s many in America’s alternative religious communities have embraced the use of marijuana and other mind-altering substances in their religious rituals. By hearkening back to Native American rites, these religious practitioners can point to a

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