Richards does just that insacred knowledge, the first welldocumented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Sacred knowledge opens your mind to the possibilities of psychedelics by investigating the biological processes, human consciousness and revelatory religious experiences that psychedelics induce. Psychedelics and religious experiences reprint by richards, william isbn. In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. Based on three decades of legal research, bill argues that if psychedelics are used legally and responsibly, they have the potential to improve your. Sacred knowledge is the first welldocumented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect. Part of a new guides orientation at johns hopkins entails becoming familiar with the supportive music used in a particular research study and the rationale. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect the.
That sentence appears on a list of topics to consider in his new book, sacred knowledge. Richards was involved in psychedelic research at the spring grove hospital centre and maryland psychiatric research centre in the 1960s and 70s, and recently at the johns hopkins bayview medical centre. G william barnard in the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, william a. But what if a study of psychedelics was undertaken with trusted scientific rigor. If entheogen means a sacred experience of spiritual or religious meaning. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have incredible potential to. Richards sacred knowledge is the first welldocumented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Psychedelics and religious experiences, which is a required textbook for the certificate program. I have read many books on the topic of psychedelic research and this book is in my. This effort, however, quickly turned into a discredited enterprise involving recreational drug use. Bill richards is one of the few people alive today that were involved both in the first wave of scientific research into psychedelic substances in the sixties and seventies and in the current era of psychedelics research.
Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have incredible potential to assuage human suffering and constructively contribute to the. Psychedelics and religious experience is not only a summation of his workone that effortlessly mixes the results of scientific research, case studies, anecdotes, and interpretative commentarybut an apologia for the use of entheogens in controlled settings. William richards new memoir focuses on the way psychedelics have enriched. Sacred knowledge psychedelics and religious experiences william richards audio book torrent free download, 7128.
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Psychedelics and religious experiences columbia university press, and would not be unexpected in something like jack kerouacs the dharma bums, but in a scholarly work by a clinical psychologist at the johns hopkins bayview medical center. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect the quality of human life. Psychedelics and religious experience 2016 is by the clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and scholar of theology and comparative religion, william a richards. In sacred knowledge, richards collates this rich background and distills his years of thinking about psychedelics psychotherapeutic and spiritual uses into a book that is readable for educated general readers, intellectually firm enough for scholars, and flavored by his personal experiences. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential. Both a practitioner and professor, richards writes as a guide into the depths of psychedelic spirituality. Others, more qualified than i, have written and will write their own books about the mysteries of. Then, as he tells us in his new book, sacred knowledge. Richards does just that in sacred knowledge, the first. Richards reintroduces the science and psychedelic experience. Richards does just that in sacred knowledge, the first welldocumented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Psychedelics and religious experiences, richards explains the role of music in his work.
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