By Its Fruits? Mystical and Visionary States of Consciousness Occasioned by Entheogens: with Ron Cole-Turner, “Entheogens, Mysticism, and Neuroscience”; William A. Richards, “Here and Now: Discovering the Sacred with Entheogens”; G. William Barnard, “Entheogens in a Religious Context: The Case of the Santo Daime Religious Tradition”; and Leonard Hummel, “By Its Fruits? Mystical and Visionary States of Consciousness Occasioned by Entheogens.”

A new era has emerged in research on entheogens largely due to clinical trials conducted at Johns Hopkins University and similar studies sponsored by the Council for Spiritual Practices. In these notes and queries, I reflect on implications of these developments for psychological studies of religion...

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Auteur principal: Hummel, Leonard M. 1951- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Dans: Zygon
Année: 2014, Volume: 49, Numéro: 3, Pages: 685-695
Sujets non-standardisés:B Mysticism
B Life-world
B William James
B Churches
B communitarian
B psychology of religion
B entheogens
B Colonization
B Fruits
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Résumé:A new era has emerged in research on entheogens largely due to clinical trials conducted at Johns Hopkins University and similar studies sponsored by the Council for Spiritual Practices. In these notes and queries, I reflect on implications of these developments for psychological studies of religion and on what this research may mean for Christian churches in the United States. I conclude that the aims and methods of this research fit well within Jamesian efforts of contemporary psychology of religion to assess religious practices by their fruits for life. Furthermore, some communitarian religious concerns that religious experiences occasioned by entheogens pose risks to the integrity of religious community are shown to be largely unfounded. However, it is suggested that certain risks for religious life posed by all investigations/interventions by knowledge experts—in particular, the colonization of the religious life world and the commodification of its practices—also attend these developments for Christian churches. Additionally, risks of individual harm in the use of entheogens appear to be significant and, therefore, warrant earnest ethical study.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contient:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12112