Tag Archives: psychedelics

On Acid: LSD and the Sorcerer’s Apprentices

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Readers coming to Points for the first time may be interested in some of our other posts treating psychedelic experience.  They include (but are not limited to) Religious Studies Professor Gary Laderman’s meditations on the place of LSD … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Cross-Posting Gary Laderman on “LSD”

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Today marks the third in a series of cross-postings from the Social Science Research Council’s Frequencies project– earlier posts from that “genealogy of spirituality” examined the AA Big Book and Marijuana.  Here, in a piece that’s sure to … Continue reading →

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“Rock” Raines and The Good Doctor

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Baseball fans are generally a conservative lot, deeply resistant to the idea that the National Game has long been tainted by the presence of drug pushers and dope fiends. Ken Burns’ wildly successful and stupefyingly long PBS series on the game is … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Documents: Chester Anderson’s “Uncle Tim’$ Children”

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Editor’s Note:  Recent ponderings on the place of drugs in the Occupy Wall Street encampments, plus our ongoing engagement with all matters psychedelic, has led Points to think about the counterculture.  As Dr. Dave Smith, founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free … Continue reading →

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In the Ether: Rick Doblin on Psychedelics and Addiction

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

As Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Rick Doblin, mentioned in the second installment of his three-part interview with Points (Part I is here), the organization — part psychedelic research lab, part advocacy group, and … Continue reading →

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Down to Earth: Rick Doblin on MAPS’ Day-to-Day Operations and Basic Philosophies

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

During the first installment of our three-part interview with Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Founder and Executive Director Rick Doblin, the visionary nonprofit head explained that his organization’s “mission is to conduct scientific research into psychedelics and marijuana and … Continue reading →

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Far Out: Psychedelic History with Rick Doblin, Founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is not your typical drug policy reform organization. Since 1986, MAPS has worked as a nonprofit pharmaceutical company to turn psychedelic drugs into prescription medicines to treat afflictions — including postraumatic stress disorder, pain, … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Alien Nation: Queering Altered States

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

Editor’s note: Today’s Freaky Friday brings us again to the psychedelic borderlands, where University of Florida Professor of Women’s Studies and English Tace Hedrick talks about the mushroom trips of Gloria Anzaldúa– and their connections to her queer mestiza cosmology. … Continue reading →

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Conference Announcement: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Plants and Religion

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

The Working Group on Plants and Religion at the University of Florida (UF) is hosting a symposium entitled “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Plants and Religion,” to be held 15-17 December 2011.  The symposium will explore human-plant relationships in the realm of … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Exploring the “Secrets Mushroomic”: R. Gordon Wasson in Mexico

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Today’s Freaky Friday brings Points readers the insights of Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida and a specialist in 20th-century Latin American literature and culture.  Having written previously on Mestizo … Continue reading →

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