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Can drugs be used intelligently and responsibly to expand human consciousness and heighten spirituality? This two-volume work presents objective scientific information and personal stories aiming to answer the question.

• Includes coverage of a variety of drugs, most of which are currently illegal in the United States, accompanied by scientific explanations of how they spur spiritual experiences

• Offers compelling narratives from individuals―both laypeople and professionals―who found new dimensions within their lives and heightened their spirituality by the use of entheogens

• Supplies information about medical experiments and new treatment modes that provide definitive breakthrough methods for caring for suffering people

• Sales Rank: #1529313 in Books
• Published on: 2014-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Dimensions: 2.39" h x 6.78" w x 9.59" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 830 pages

Review
"The broad scope of the essays in this first volume urges one to reconsider the long-held belief that psychoactives merely ‘played a role' in the history of religion. Instead they suggest that this role was extensive and might even have been decisive in the formation of the spiritual faculty in man. . . . [A]ll essays are well-documented and provide a plethora of references for those wanting to double-check if the authors don't read too much into the available evidence. This volume provides a wealth of ideas and knowledge for anyone interested in the spiritual aspects of the psychedelic experience." - Stitching Open, Open Foundation

"[E]ntheogens can provide experiences that help people understand what had previously been only abstract religious ideas. Concepts such as awe, sacredness, eternity and grace can become profound with meaning with entheogens. They have attracted serious scholarly attention . . . . J.H. Ellens' two-volume anthology, Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances: Chemical Paths to Spirituality and to God, is the most thorough recent study. These scholars' research refutes the claim that entheogenists are merely leftover hippies from the 1960s." - Religion News Service

About the Author

J. Harold Ellens, PhD, is a retired professor of psychology and philosophy, a retired Presbyterian theologian and pastor, and a psychotherapist in private practice.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This two volume set is the perfect companion to Praeger’s Psychedelic Medicine
By Heir to the Leary Legacy: a
by Bruce Sewick, LCPC, RDDP, CADC

In the forward from the second volume of Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances, Dr. Riegel (2014)
summarizes the editor’s definition of spirituality as “the irrepressible and universal hunger for meaning…” The editor J. Harold Ellens’ (2014) explains that “it is our psycho spiritual mandate to explore whatever affords us authentic
expansion of our experience and
knowledge concerning that which is
revealed to us in accessing the ineffable”.

This two-volume reference
set allows 37 psychedelic scholars to explore and explain to the reader
the history of the pursuit of chemical paths to spirituality.

This two volume set is the perfect companion to Praeger’s Psychedelic
Medicine: new Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
(2007). These two approaches to the use of psychedelics share the
mystical experience facilitated by psychedelics as the catalyst for
healing/spiritual growth. Shamanic healers (found deep in human history
and prehistory) used mystical states -induced by a variety of practices
(including psychedelic plants) to help provide psychological, social and
cognitive integration in society (Winkelman, 2014). One also gets a
perspective of how many ancient “mystery rites” that preceded our
current religious practices were psychedelically enhanced, often as part
of an orgiastic celebration. These ritualized ceremonies were
socially prescribed ways to experience the divine. Robert Fuller
elaborates in his chapter Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American
Religious History: “Drugs were yet another instrument for soliciting
connection with sacred powers”. One begins to understand that a
communal psychoactive experience helps forge a community of shared
divine experiences.

Tom Roberts (2014) makes the case that we are “transitioning from an era
of word-based religion to an era of experience-based religion” in his
chapter. This is good news as we are returning to the mystical
experiences that generated religion as we now know it. The irony is
that this psychedelic approach, much like some early religions, is now
mostly illegal. But if Tom Roberts is right, the paradigm shift is
already occurring: “Children of a future age, reading this indignant
page, know that in a former time a path to God was thought a crime.”
This two volume reference set will give the reader hope that entheogens
will give mankind a chance to reclaim the spirituality of primary
religious experience that has until now, been ignored.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent overview of the use of psychedelics within spiritual practices
By Pieter Stokkink
This is part one of a two-part review of this publication in the Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality Series published by Praeger.

The idea that psychoactives play a significant role in many historical and contemporary religious practices is not radically new, but the fact that their use is so widespread and that they are practically everywhere one dares to look may come as a surprise to many readers of this tome. The first volume of this brilliant collection of essays by a wide variety of authors is dedicated to the history and practices regarding the use of psychoactives in religion.

The volume starts with an essay by the eminent scholar Thomas Roberts, who argues for three main ideas: 1) that in the current era, religion is changing from the word propagated through scripture to increasingly democratised, personal sacred experiences cultivated within the lives of individuals; 2) that the common core of all religions is mysticism, in other words the idea of a perennial philosophy; and 3) that psychedelics can cause mystical experiences. If we follow this line of argument, the essays in this volume are either illustrations or explanations of these principles.
read more: http://www.stichtingopen.nl/book-review-seeking-the-sacred-with-psychoactive-substances-volume-1/

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
List of contributors:
By Thomas B. Roberts
The contributors in published sequence are (both volumes, several contribute more than 1 item):

Alexander Riegel
J. Harold Ellens
Thomas B. Roberts
Chris Bennett
Carl A. P. Ruck
David Hillman
Michael Winkelman
Dan Merkur
Robert C. Fuller
Clark Heinrich
Julian Vayne
James Fadiman
Kokyo Henkel
Robert Dickins
David Steindl-Rast
Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
William A. Richards
Robert Jesse
Roland R. Griffiths
Joseph D. Calabrese
Evgenia Fotiou
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Rosa Melo
Walter N. Pahnke
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Stanley Krippner
Roger Walsh
Christopher M. Bache
Anthony P. Bossis
Stanislav Grof
David B. Yaden
Andrew B. Newberg

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