RT Article
T1 Entheogens, Mysticism, and Neuroscience: 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.”
JF Zygon
VO 49
IS 3
SP 642
OP 651
A1 Cole-Turner, Ronald 1948-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827965010
AB Entheogens or psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin are associated with mystical states of experience. Drug laws currently limit research, but important new work is under way at major biomedical research facilities showing that entheogens reliably occasion mystical experiences and thereby allow research into brain states during these experiences. Are drug-occasioned mystical experiences neurologically the same as more traditional mystical states? Are there phenomenological and theological differences? As this research goes forward and the public becomes more widely aware of its achievements, religious scholars and experts in science and religion will be called upon to interpret the philosophical and theological presuppositions that underpin this research and the significance of the findings that flow from it.
K1 psychedelic
K1 Psilocybin
K1 Neuroscience
K1 Mysticism
K1 Mystical Experience
K1 Entheogen
K1 Cognitive Science
DO 10.1111/zygo.12110