LSD Gospel, Christmas Tidings, and the FDA during the Psychedelic Sixties
Academics and enthusiasts alike often consider the 1960s a “psychedelics golden age” of access, research, and culture.
Religion
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Read more: Darśana: A More Inclusive Spiritual Framework Darśana: A More Inclusive Spiritual Framework
The legal category of “religion,” rooted in a Euro-Christian episteme, has outlived its usefulness as a universal category.
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Read more: What a Psychedelic Church Reveals about Religion and the Law What a Psychedelic Church Reveals about Religion and the Law
On Nov. 11, 2024, Bridger Lee Jensen stepped out of his church, Singularism, and was surrounded by police. They detained him, searched the church, and seized an alleged 450 grams of dried psilocybin mushroom.
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Read more: Churches Need to Have a Stance on Psychedelics Churches Need to Have a Stance on Psychedelics
Sixty-three percent of Americans identify as Christian. A primary responsibility for the established Christian church is to offer ethical guidance to church members, all of whom live in a society with particular state and federal laws.
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Read more: Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions: Between Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions: Between Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition
Alongside the last two decades of growth in the field of psychedelic medicine, the use of psychedelics in religious and spiritual contexts has increased, not only in novel psychedelic spiritual communities (i.e., psychedelic churches) and indigenous or Native American contexts, but in Abrahamic religious communities as well.
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Read more: What We Talk About When We Talk About Psychedelics What We Talk About When We Talk About Psychedelics
One of the biggest challenges in psychedelic regulation is reconciling competing ideas of what psychedelics are and why people use them. These definitions shape not only our cultural narratives but concrete policy choices.
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Read more: The PULSE of Psychedelics, Law, and Spirituality The PULSE of Psychedelics, Law, and Spirituality
This symposium, The PULSE of Psychedelics, Law, and Spirituality, highlights the work of the Petrie-Flom Center’s Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE) Project. We invited this year’s cohort of affiliated legal and religious scholars and practitioners to explore an idea from their own work. These PULSE researchers, who meet monthly, come from a range…
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Read more: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
Editors: Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, and Elizabeth SepperPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: July 2017 This edited volume stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2015 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to identify the various ways in which law intersects with religion and health care in the United States, examine the role of law in…
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Read more: The Satanic Temple Asserts Medication Abortion is a Religious Right The Satanic Temple Asserts Medication Abortion is a Religious Right
The Satanic Temple argues that abortion is a protected religious right.
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Read more: Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement
Granting exemptions on the basis of religion incentivizes people to lie, and exemptions are more likely to be given to people who have lied well.
