Scientifically-Proven Religious Experiences?

Practically blasphemy to mainstream religions, world governments, and the mainstream population is the idea that psychedelics could have the undeniably and scientifically-measurable effect of inducing religious experiences.

KRATOM TESTING LAB

What I think really happened, is that the DEA had no idea how large the Kratom industry was. They vastly underestimated the pro-Kratom movement, the number of Kratom users, as well as the size of the Kratom industry. After reading through the extraordinarily cherry-picked, and very biased notice they entered into the Federal Register, the truth becomes difficult to deny.

Kava Kava Dosage Guide

What is a usual and safe Kava Kava dosage? We answer that question in detail here at Entheology.com to help give you a safe path to Kava consumption.

Combining Kava & Cannabis

Now that Cannabis is legal for recreational use in three states as of the writing of this article, it feels important to address what will undoubtedly be a continuing flood of questions regarding combining kava and cannabis (marijuana).  Customers from both Washington...

Drugs: More Than Chemical Reactions

The growing body of evidence (albeit circumstantial) that points to what I feel is the most profound aspect of how science itself is revealing an inescapable fact: Mystical experiences, whether naturally or chemically induced, have tangible effects that reach far beyond temporary chemical reactions acting on our neural pathways through the bombardment or deprivation of normal channels of communication within the brain and central nervous system.

Saving the ‘Vine of the Soul’

Saving the ‘Vine of the Soul’

Putumayo state in the northwest Amazon region of Colombia is dense, green and humid. Its lush rivers and jungles are a vision of a tropical paradise, home to untold species of fauna and flora still awaiting discovery. They are also perfect cover for underground fighters, as well as the peasant farmers who toil in labs hidden under leafy canopies, turning coca leaves into the white paste that will be processed into cocaine.


Human Intranasal, Sublingual, Intrarectal, Pulmonary and Oral Pharmacology of Bufotenine

Human Intranasal, Sublingual, Intrarectal, Pulmonary and Oral Pharmacology of Bufotenine

In a previous paper on pharmahuasca psychonautics, modeling ayahuasca or Banisteriopsis caapi Mort. (Malpighiaceae) potions via self-experiments with pure harmine and DMT or N,N-dimethyltryptamine, I noted that Holmstedt and Lindgren had originally proposed in the context of shamanic snuffs what I called the “ayahuasca effect” activation of the orally inactive (and, presumably, also intranasally-inactive) DMT by concomitant administration of monoamine-oxidase inhibiting (MAOI) beta-carbolines, mainly harmine – later extended to encompass also orally-ingested ayahuasca potions in its purview.

You Hip to the Entheogen (R)evolution?

You Hip to the Entheogen (R)evolution?

A lot of ink has been spilled over civil rights battles. Blood too, for that matter. And pontificators have given us our last civil rights fights for a long time. They say affirmative action is the last battle. They say gay rights is the last battle. They might even say that political correctness is a civil rights battle. But what has not been addressed is the freedom of consciousness movement.

Hallucinogen Said to Cure Drug Addiction

Hallucinogen Said to Cure Drug Addiction

Extracted from the root bark of a west African plant, ibogaine has been used in spiritual rituals in parts of Gabon, where it is said to open up ancestral memories and enable people to re-evaluate life experiences. It is banned in the US, Belgium and Switzerland but legal in the UK, where it is classified as an unlicensed, experimental medicine. Concerns over its safety and high price have limited its popularity.

Psychoactive Plants Traditionally Used in Madagascar

Psychoactive Plants Traditionally Used in Madagascar

The following observations refer to two plants used by some of the autochthonous peoples of Madagascar and are based on an article by a French researcher, Pierre Boiteau. The article is unmentioned in the specialist literature on psychoactive plants. Furthemore, the two plant species mentioned were unknown to us. The article, ‘Sur deux plantes autochtones de Madagascar utilisées à la manière de Chanvre comme stupéfiant’ (‘On two autochthonous plants from Madagascar used in the manner of Cannabis as a narcotic’), was published in 1967 in the Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences (Paris).

Botanical Jewelry

Botanical Jewelry

Humans have been decorating their bodies with the beauty of natural objects for thousands of years. Primitive man wore necklaces made from the bones, claws and teeth of slain animals. Today most people think of natural jewelry as shiny pieces of corals, pearls and precious or semiprecious stones, polished and set in gold or silver.

Temple of the True Inner Light

Temple of the True Inner Light

The Temple of the True Inner Light was formed in 1980 by Alan Birnbaum as an offshoot of the New York City branch of the Native American Church. The Temple uses Di-Propyl Tryptamine (DPT) as its sacrament which Temple followers regard as the actual manifestation of God, rather than a means to access God. DPT ingestion, according to the Temple, allows direct communication with spirit forms and this communication provides the source of their theology.

Barquinha

Barquinha

The last ayahuasca ritual we attended in Brazil was the Barquinha, a split off the Santo Daime and the smallest of the three established Brazilian churches who use ‘huasca’, as its called in Brazil. As with the others, the religion incorporates beliefs from Spiritism, Christianity and the native jungle tribes.

A Brief History of the Native American Church

A Brief History of the Native American Church

Descriptions of still-existing Peyote rituals that are essentially free of Christian admixtures – those of the Tepehuan, Cora, Huichol, and Tarahumara tribes in Mexico, for example – hint of pre-Columbian origins of contemporary Church meetings, for anthropologists can point to aboriginal counterparts for virtually all of the sacred artifacts that the Native American Church uses.

Antiquity of the Use of New World Hallucinogens

Antiquity of the Use of New World Hallucinogens

A review of psychoactive plants known from archaeological contexts and artistic representations shows that their use has spanned centuries, continuing in places in Mexico and South America to the present day. The discovery of the unusual properties of these plants took place as part of the exploration of the physical milieu of the Western Hemisphere. That these plants must, in some cases, be made into infusions in order to be consumed reveals ancient enterprise in manipulating aspects of the environment.

The Peyote Gardens: A Conservation Crisis?

The Peyote Gardens: A Conservation Crisis?

More than a quarter of a million Native Americans use the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) as sacrament in a Pan-Native American religion called the Native American Church. This bona fide religion include Native Americans from throughout the United States and Canada. Almost all the peyote consumed in their ceremonies comes from the “peyote gardens” on the Mustang Plains in south Texas, which has been carefully documented by Morgan (1976, 1983) and by Morgan and Stewart (1984).

The Way of the Shaman

The Way of the Shaman

I believe that we’re at the beginning of a shamanic Renaissance. Shamanism has been rapidly disappearing from the planet as missionaries, colonists, governments, and commercial interests overwhelmed tribal peoples and their ancient cultures. During the last decade however, shamanism has returned to human life with startling strength, even to urban strongholds of Western “civilization,” such as New York and Vienna.

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