Michael Hoffmann, December 16, 2022 12:04 am UTC+0
Contents:
- Intro
- Website
- Book Project
- Course: Sacred Drugs (2017)
- Video Interview: Charles Stang, Christian Greer, Gary Laderman, Erik Davis (Good)
- Essays
- Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life (Lundborg)
- Religious Electric Music Festivals
- Study of 1,225 festival-goers pinpoints positive effects of trippy drugs (Pattillo, Jan. 2020)
- Saint Martin Church: Jesus Left Fingers Branching, Right Non-Branching
- See Also
Intro
Laderman is working on a book, has a course: “To create a space for people to explore drugs and religion and consider their value and significance in the American spiritual landscape.”
Wrote books about death, including Psychedelics focus. Video content. Articles.
A video discussion with Charles Stang, Christian Greer, & Erik Davis.
Website
https://garyladerman.com/media/ – Media (interviews, talks):
- Religion and Drugs, Religion and American Culture webinar.
- “`Sacred Drugs’ aims to blow Emory students’ minds with scholarly analysis” – April Hunt writes, Nov. 10, 2020: [condensed]
“The course discusses the theory that psychoactive drugs are intimately related to religious life historically.
“A historian by training. A leading scholar in the study of death and the sacred.
“He is working on a book on the topic.
“To create a space for people to explore drugs and religion and consider their value and significance in the American spiritual landscape.”
Book Project
Course: Sacred Drugs (2017)
“currently working on a book project exploring religion and drugs, the focus of a new course first taught in 2017, “Sacred Drugs.”
Laderman’s courses and seminars include:
US Religious History
Mind, Medicine, and Healing
Death and Dying
Theory and Method
Sacred Drugs
Introduction to Religion
Religion and Music
Video Interview: Charles Stang, Christian Greer, Gary Laderman, Erik Davis (Good)
Charles Stang, Christian Greer, Gary Laderman, Erik Davis: https://youtu.be/ymfw3VOgy6g – very good, merits multiple watches
26:00-38:00 – dark side of psychedelic mystic experience
Essays
Essays Webpage
https://garyladerman.com/writings/
- Mind-Altering Drugs are Here to Stay, Psychology Today, Religiousness blog, Aug 3 2022
- Dangerous Pedagogy: Takeaways from Taking Sacred Drugs
- My Joe Rogan Experience, Experience
- Why I’m Easy – grading in Religion classes
- How Would You Teach Intro to Religion?
- Drugs and Religion: Same Thing?
- Religion (Whatever That Is) This Year
- A Night in Amsterdam on Drugs
- Psychedelics for Mind, Body, and… Spirit?
- Just Say Yes: In Drugs We Trust
- Why Take “Sacred Drugs”? – 2017 essay about his course
The familiar categories that are employed when discussing why people use drugs—“medicinal,” “recreational,” and “spiritual”—are not unhelpful when sorting out some of what drives people to seek out mind-altering substances.
But they are also somewhat conceptually limiting, as they deny the messier reality: that these categories are not mutually exclusive and allow for overlap and combinations.
GL in Psychology Today – https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/religiousness/202208/mind-altering-drugs-are-here-stay
The overlaps can be found in, for example, … the activities from the symposia in ancient Greece, or … in the ecstatic experiences of participants at your typical EDM festival.
The end of that article is like my recent {spear} mytheme post yesterday:
… potentially poisonous but also potentially life-altering, with powers that might even be understood by some as sacred.
Although it is alluring and seems domesticated, the psychedelic renaissance is really only the tip of the psychoactive spear, and the deeper it penetrates culture, the more we will realize how revolutionary this “rebirth” is for the futures of medicine, psychology, and religion.
GL
End of sentence skipped “recreation”.
I’m against dismissively (& self-servingly) labelling other people’s use as “recreational”, and also against omitting a recreational approach to the sacred altered state.
Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life (Lundborg)
Why/where did Lundborg come up re: Laderman?
It’s surprising how little I cite this book.
I received hardcover – HUGE – 2024/12/31.
There’s a book on ancient Dionysian religion and electric music festival culture, I posted at the Egodeath Yahoo Group in 2014: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9197652326/ –
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-125/#message6452 –
“Interview with Patrick Lundborg: 60’s psych & garage guru, psychedelic culture scholar and author of brilliant „Psychedelia” and „Acid Archives” books”
There is too little recognition of pop sike cult during 1970-1990.
Religious Electric Music Festivals
Study of 1,225 festival-goers pinpoints positive effects of trippy drugs (Pattillo, Jan. 2020)
Psychedelic study shows why people love taking psychedelics at music festivals.
“Public perceptions of psychedelics, and the people who use them, are becoming more accurate.”
Saint Martin Church: Jesus Left Fingers Branching, Right Non-Branching
No idea why this is here, except principle of “better to type in-place than lose an idea”.
See Also
pending
The Egodeath theory 