God On Psychedelics: Tripping Across The Rubble of Old-Time Religion

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In God on Psychedelics, veteran journalist Don Lattin trains his eye on some previously unexamined questions. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance co ect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith?

Some clergy and laity think they can. Judaism and Christianity each have centuries-old mystical paths. Yet since the early 1960s, and in the current psychedelic revival, countless North American psychonauts have turned to Buddhism, Hinduism or Native American spirituality to understand the revelatory experience they encountered on magic mushrooms, LSD and other psychoactive drugs.

Today, psychedelics are increasingly used as therapeutic tools to help those suffering from depression, trauma and substance abuse. Meanwhile, decriminalization campaigns and cognitive freedom crusades are sprouting up across the nation, inspiring churches and other fellowships to move beyond the divisive doctrine and denominationalism of old-time religion. Don Lattin has been writing about altered states of consciousness since the 1970s — first as an award-wi ing religion reporter for daily newspapers in San Francisco and more recently as a bestselling author.

God on Psychedelics takes the reader on a magical mystery tour across the nation’s changing religious landscape, exploring a new kind of trinity that blends psychedelic insight, psychological healing and spiritual revival. Author Don Latti Author Info DON LATTIN is an award-wi ing journalist and who covers alternative and mainstream spiritual and religious movements and figures in America. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S.

magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. Don is also the author of six books including “Changing Our Minds — Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy” (2017), “Distilled Spirits — Getting High, then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher and a Hopeless Drunk” (2012) and “The Harvard Psychedelic Club — How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age in America” (2010). To learn more, visit his website at www.donlattin.com.

His most recent work, CHANGING OUR MINDS, chronicles a quiet revolution underway in our understanding of how psychedelic drugs work and how they can be used to treat depression, addiction and other disease. The stories behind this cutting-edge medical research and religious exploration reveal the human side of a psychedelic renaissance. “Changing Our Minds” is the latest installment in a trio of books about the recent history and future prospects for finding beneficial uses for drugs and plant medicines like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and ayahuasca.

DISTILLED SPIRITS is a memoir/group biography that looks at how writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, opened new doors in Western religious thought. It is a prequel to THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB, a national bestseller that won the 2010 California Book Award, Silver Medal, for non-fiction. ISBN-13 978-1958061282 Publisher Apocryphile Press Publication Date March 6, 2023 Binding Paperback Condition New Page Count 188 pages