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Phanerothyme' Psychedelic Information Center Cambridge, Mass. All rights reserved. Used by the Council on Spiritual Practices with permission of the author. This essay has been difficult to write. It is very hard to talk about religious matters. It is harder still to discuss them in connection with a subject – phanerothymic drugs – which is so fraught with misconceptions and emotion. The latter temptation has been made weaker in my case by the fact that I do not recognize my own experience in very much of what has been written. I make no contention that my experience is the only or the typical form of response to these drugs. Perhaps the use of a booklet like this is not that it will be believed or agreed with at the first reading but that it will function as a reminder of an alternative approach when some of the current approaches prove unrewarding. The ideas expressed in this pamphlet have developed out of some dozen phanerothymic sessions over the past five years. What is psychedelic?

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The God Chemical: Brain Chemistry And Mysticism Manual Lymph Drainage - Dr. Vodder School Entheogens in the Vajrayana Tradition Warning: datura is an extremely powerful and dangerous hallucinogen. In addition to the dangers inherent in severe hallucinosis, the plant is quite toxic. There have been reports of coma and death resulting from this toxicity.The broad definition of entheogen used here is: "plants or substances capable of producing visionary experiences which are used for magico-religious or psychospiritual purposes." The use of entheogens in the Vajrayana tradition has been documented by such scholars as Ronald M Davidson, William George Stablein, Bulcsu Siklos, David B. Gray, Benoytosh Bhattacharyya, Shashibhusan Das Gupta, Francesca Fremantle, Shinichi Tsuda, David Gordon White, Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, James Francis Hartzell, Edward Todd Fenner, Ian Baker, Dr. This investigation has focused primarily on the use of entheogens in the anuttara-yoga-tantra materials especially (but not exclusively) the Yogini-tantras. Partial Bibliographic List of Resources Vajrayana and the use of datura and cannabis

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