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How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
Archived Atlantic free version
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This Is Your Priest on Drugs
Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.
New Yorker – Free version
Observations
The shamanic experience is fine for a shared psychedelic experience, as entertainment and for some spiritual fulfillment… but as an epistemological mirror on hard reality, it’s a rabbit hole of charlatanism.
Words of Caution to the Would-Be Shaman by James Kent
