Episode 21: Entheogens & Spirituality

The three hosts (Astra, Fel and Hanne) discuss the science and history of entheogens in spiritual practices, how scholarship has changed and how it differs from other trance inducing practices. A general content warning for this episode, there will be a discussion surrounding drug use and its effects.Come join our discord! https://discord.gg/kJthJyxTBcResources:Effects of Ayahuascahttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-waking-dream/Speculative ethnobotanical perspectives on the Norse berserkershttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31404578/The “Vine of the Soul” vs. The Controlled Substances Act: Implications of the Hoasca Casehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2008.10400630Quasi-Experimental Elicitation of the Differential Report of Religious Experience among Intrinsic and Indiscriminately Pro-Religious Typeshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/1387425?seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contentsPsilocybin and mystical-type experienceshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5Of Roots and Fruits: A Comparison of Psychedelic and Nonpsychedelic Mystical Experienceshttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022167816674625