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PSYCHEDELIC/ENTHEOGENIC CULTURE Royce Carlson Out of nearly forty years of
this experimentation here in the West, the sub-culture has developed it’s own
art, music, politics, religious beliefs and lifestyle. Musically, bands such
as the Grateful Dead and Phish grew out of this culture. More recently
psychedelic trance, rave, and techno music are associated with these drugs.
Political groups are active either working to get these drugs legalized or
working to build a new society based on visions catalysed by the psychedelic
experience. A new term for the exploration
of the spiritual realm via psychoactive drugs is "entheogenic."
This term essentially means "to become divine within." One of the
persistent properties of the entheogenic experience is an enhancement of
one’s sensitivities to the spiritual realm. Shamans of many cultures have
been using psychotropic plants for thousands of years to establish contact
with the Divine. Peyote is a sacrament in many Native American tribes as are
sacred mushrooms. In the U.S., psycho-explorers began distilling the
psycho-active chemicals from these plants as well as fabricating new
alkaloids such as DMT and Ecstasy that produced similar experiences. The
entheogens are seen as religious tools to help us get closer to God, realize
our own Divine nature and/or experience communion and oneness with all life
directly. The psychedelic/entheogenic
culture has it’s champions and eloquent spokesmen such as Terence McKenna,
Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, John C. Lilly, Stanislav Grof as well as Timothy
Leary- all very intelligent, respected and charismatic public figures who
have had profound, life-changing experiences with entheogens. |
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