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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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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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LSD and the Rabbis: Conclusion

December 08, 2014 1 Comment
Logo Timothy Leary

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
Reb Zalman

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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LSD and the Rabbis

August 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ram Dass

This article is Part I in a three part series. Click here for Part II and Part III. By Shalom Goldman The reactions to the death last month of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi may be a sign that the conversation about psychedelic drugs

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