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    Entheogens are psychedelic drugs—and sometimes certain other psychoactive substances—used for engendering spiritual development or otherwise in sacred...
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    of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon's functioning as an entheogen, or psychedelic agent. The use of potions or philtres for magical or religious...
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    are many pieces of archaeological evidence in reference to the use of entheogens early in the history of Mesoamerica. Olmec burial sites with remains of...
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  • baeocystin and norbaeocystin. The mushrooms are collected and grown as an entheogen and recreational drug, despite being illegal in many countries. Many psilocybin...
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  • non-psychoactive substances are legal, generally. This sections lists entheogens; drugs that are consumed for their intoxicating effect in combinatin with...
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  • received the law, is referred to as the Biblical entheogen hypothesis. His paper, Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis details parallels between...
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    Argyreia nervosa (category Entheogens)
    it has not yet been demonstrated satisfactorily that their use as an entheogen predates the various countercultural movements of the 1960s. Given that...
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    The psychedelic drug (or entheogen) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938, by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in...
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    virosa (European destroying angel). Amanita muscaria was widely used as an entheogen by many of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Its use was known among...
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  • Drug use may refer to any drug use; or: Entheogen Performance-enhancing drugs Pharmaceutical drug Poly drug use, the use of combined psychoactive substances...
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    certain drugs, known as entheogens, which are mostly hallucinogens,—psychedelics, dissociatives, or deliriants. Some entheogens include kava which can...
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  • toxin by vomiting. The Maya ritually administered enemas of alcohol as an entheogen, sometimes adding other psychoactive substances, seeking to reach a state...
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  • exhibits a wide range of dangerous drug-drug interactions). Alkaloid Entheogen Erowid: Ayahuasca A General Introduction to Ayahuasca Archived 2015-10-13...
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    say describing the awesome experience that follows the ingestion of an entheogen. I can think of nothing like it in the long and rich history of European...
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  • " The Entheogen Review 14(1):113-115. Trout, K. 2005. "Some thoughts on analysis and comparisons of extracts and synthetic DMT." The Entheogen review...
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  • called maithuna, and to use moksha-medicine—a local psychedelic drug or entheogen—to help achieve these other goals. The Rani, however, who comes to visit...
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    Pahnke's experiment investigated whether psilocybin would act as a reliable entheogen in religiously predisposed subjects. Prior to the Good Friday service...
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    Beliefs Call to prayer Clergy Covenant Conversion Deities Denomination Entheogens Ethnic Faith Fire Folk religion God Goddess Indigenous Meditation Monasticism...
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    Amanita muscaria (category Entheogens)
    ibotenic acid. A local variety of the mushroom was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Arguably the most iconic toadstool...
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    Aconitum ferox (category Entheogens)
    cannabis flowers, in a practice that is part consciousness-expansion by entheogen, part ordeal by poison. Aghoris, no strangers to the use of all manner...
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    Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and infection. Mycology branches into the field of phytopathology...
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    Anadenanthera colubrina (category Entheogens)
    Anadenanthera colubrina (also known as vilca, huilco, huilca, wilco, willka, curupay, curupau, cebil, or angico) is a South American tree closely related...
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  • Entheogenics and the Maya (category Entheogens)
    The consumption of hallucinogenic plants as entheogens goes back to thousands of years. Psychoactive plants contain hallucinogenic particles that provoke...
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    religious and magical practices of Asia and Africa as an intoxicant and entheogen. Schultes and Hofmann later devote much of a chapter in their 1980 work...
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    Rastafari (category Religious organizations using entheogens)
    Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious...
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  • along with other scholars in mythology and religion on the sacred role of entheogens, or psychoactive plants that induce an altered state of consciousness...
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    botanical researcher in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses, and helped coin the term "entheogen". Ott has written eight books, co-written...
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