AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Entheogen, Rigveda, The Psychedelic Experience
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*no part of the hippie counterculture left uninformed by psychedelic drugs . Leary: you can"t do good unless you feel good . Drugs have always been a part of artistic movement: subcultures always embrace drugs. Counterculture is an exploration of the politics of consciousness . Lsd: god came to america, inner dialogues with god, find holy within yourself. Baudelaire: french club of hashish eaters (19th century) drug use as sacramental. Form of traditionalization: repurposing something traditional to represent your platform. We declare the identity of flesh and and consciousness; all reason and law must respect and protect this holy identity . Leary as lsd guru, aldous huxley"s doors of perception , kesey"s acid tests. Entheogens: give sense of being in touch with sacred/divine, create spiritual experiences. Mescaline (peyote), psilocybin (mushrooms), lsd (ergot mold), dmt. Prehistory: archeological evidence that shows humans used entheogens since paleolithic age in europe (10,000 bce)
