A nice little writeup of some of the newer research being done on psilocybin mushrooms was posted over at Time’s “healthland” sub-site. It’s not exhaustive, but it’s a worthwhile read, especially for anyone not particularly well versed in some of the newer directions on the therapeutic potential of certain tryptamines.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Earthkeepers: Ecospiritual Practice for the Week of Jan 16 – 22
There’s a group affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville that I’m a part of, which focuses on what ecospirituality or “green religion.” I’m a small (read: single person) part of that group, and as part of an attempt to be involved, I’ll be leading one of the meetings on Sunday afternoon (01/22) around 4pm. I wrote up a little bit of an introduction to what the meeting will be about, and it’s been posted over here. I’m excited about it, and wanted to mention it here as well!
New article on LSD at the Points blog
As part of their Freaky Friday series, the Points blog has put up a new article on how the cultural impact of LSD went far beyond those who were actually taking the substance, opening out into a broader social milieu where these experiences – in terms of art, trip reports, aesthetics, and new forms of rhetoric – provided a space to talk about personal kinds of spirituality, over and often against institutional religion, in a way that had not to that point existed in US society.
Give it a read!