Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches

LSD, Cannabis, and Spiritual Sacraments in Underground America

AvMike Marinacci

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A comprehensive tour of North American spiritual groups that use psychoactive drugs in the search for higher consciousness.For thousands of years, human beings around the world have used hallucinogenic plants and fungi to alter consciousness and connect with the Divine. Although such practices faded with the rise of organized religion, the last century has seen a revival of entheogen-based spirituality in North America.From LSD-powered guru Timothy Leary to cannabis-sex cults to psychedelic outlaw churches, Mike Marinacci presents a comprehensive tour of North American religious sects and spiritual groups that use entheogens and psychoactive drugs in the search for higher consciousness, mystical insight, and spiritual enlightenment. Exploring prominent churches and cults in depth, he examines the lives of their colourful leaders, the origins of their unorthodox beliefs, the controversial practices of their congregants, and their many conflicts with both law enforcement and public opinion. He looks at the Native American Church and their legal battle over their peyote rituals, the cannabis-sex temple known as the Psychedelic Venus Church, the murderous end of the LSD-therapy cult known as the Church of Naturalism, and several other major groups and temples of psychedelic spirituality. He then offers an encyclopedic survey of dozens of minor organizations, many of which have never been documented in an authoritative source before.Sharing personal interviews and anecdotes about the strange, outrageous adventures of religious psychonauts alongside rare photos and illustrations, this extensively researched study of underground psychedelic religious groups in the United States reveals their spiritual and cultural influence from the 1960s to the present day.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:621 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Park Street Press
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Inner Traditions Bear and Company
ISBN:9781644117071

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Mike Marinacci is an independent expert on psychedelic spiritual groups and nontraditional American religious sects. He is the author of California Jesus and Mysterious California and coauthor of the bestselling Weird California. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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“A well-researched and adeptly written history of the underground spiritual movement that swept through American popular culture in the 1960s and ’70s. It’s a concise and thoroughly engaging compendium of this important subculture and a must-read for any serious student of this revolutionary and awe-inspiring time.”

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AcknowledgmentsForeword by J. Christian Greer, Ph.D. Introduction PART ONE Major SectsSuperstars of the Entheogenic Spiritual Underground ONE The Native American Church Trouble and Triumph on the Long Peyote Road TWO The Church of the Awakening Heartland Explorations in Mescaline Awareness THREE The Peyote Way Church of God Outlaw Stewards of the Magic Cactus FOUR The Oklevueha Native American Church Bringing Many Medicines to the White ManFIVE The League for Spiritual DiscoveryTurning On and Tuning In with Timothy Leary SIXThe Neo-American Church The Chief Boo Hoo Presents Massive Doses of Acid Absurdity SEVENThe Brotherhood of Eternal LoveThe Orange Sunshine Conspiracy EIGHT Shivalila The Wandering Entheogenic Tribe NINE The Church of Naturalism From LSD Rescues to L.A. Murders TEN The Church of the Tree of Life The Sacramental Garden of Legal Highs ELEVEN Temple of the True Inner Light A DPT Eucharist on the Lower East Side TWELVE The Shiva FellowshipCannabis Communion on Hippie HillTHIRTEEN The Psychedelic Venus ChurchSex, Drugs, and the Goddess of Ecstasy FOURTEENThe Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church Burning Down Babylon with Jah’s Ganja FIFTEEN The Church of the Universe Eden in the Great Green North SIXTEEN The Hawai’i Cannabis (THC) MinistryHoly Smoke in Paradise SEVENTEENThe International Church of CannabisA Gothic Church, Urban Murals, and Elevationism EIGHTEEN Ayahuasca Healings Plant Shamanism in the Internet Age PART TWO Minor SectsAn A–Z Guide from Ambrosia to Zide CONCLUSIONPsychedelic Sects From Prehistory into the Third Millennium APPENDIX Psychedelic Substances and Their Associated Sects NotesBibliography Index