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Sacred knowledge : psychedelics and religious experiences /
In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort, however, quickly turned into a discredited enterprise involving recreational drug use. But what if a study of psychedelics was undertaken with trusted scientific rigor' William A. Richards does j...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword, by G. William Barnard
- Part I. Setting the stage. The death and rebirth of psychedelic research ; Orientation, definitions, and the limits of language ; Revelation and doubt
- Part II. Mystical and visionary forms of consciousness. Intuitive knowledge ; Approaches to unitive consciousness ; New perspectives on time and space ; visions and archetypes
- Part III. Personal and interpersonal dynamics. The interpersonal and the mystical ; Experiences of meaninglessness, despair, and somatic discomfort ; Religious conversion and psychodynamic experiences ; Discipline and integration ; Reflections on death
- Part IV. Present and future applications of entheogens ; Psychedelic frontiers in medicine ; Psychedelic frontiers in education ; Psychedelic frontiers in religion ; Maximizing the probability of safety and benefit
- Part V. Onward. Fears of awakening ; Entering into a new paradigm ; Movement into the future
- Epilogue: A concise report of insights from the frontier where science and spirituality are meeting.