Paths to the Divine Realm: The Entheogenic Tradition

"Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort and ignore. That is that Nature is some kind of minded entity. That Nature is simply not the random flights of atoms through electromagnet fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind."...The Great Insight...Terence McKenna

• Neuropharmacology of the Mystical State Entheogenic tradition and the mystical experience...by Christopher Altman
  "The nine characteristics which Pahnke believes are shared in the mystical experience, cross-culturally and historically, are: Unity, Transcendence of Time and Space, Deeply Felt Positive Mood, Sense of Sacredness, Subjective Nature of the Experience, Paradoxicality, Alleged Ineffability, Transiency, and Persisting Positive Changes in Mood and Behavior."
• Ayahuasca: Vine of the Soul
• Machine elf (Wikipedia)
  "Machine elves (also known as fractal elves, self-transforming machine elves) is a term coined by the late ethnobotanist, writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the apparent entities (described as "elves") that have been reported by users of the psychedelic tryptamine dimethyltryptamine (DMT).... References to such encounters can be found in many cultures ranging from shamanic traditions of native Americans to indigenous Australians and African tribes, as well as among western users of these substances...."
• The Case Against DMT Elves...by James Kent
• Psilocybin mushroom: Divine Flesh
• Salvia divinorum: THE LEAVES OF THE SHEPHERDESS
• Holotropic Breathwork
  "The name holotropic suggests something that might come as a surprise to an average Westerner - that in our everyday state of consciousness we identify with only a small fraction of who we really are and do not experience the full extent of our being. Holotropic states of consciousness have the potential to help us recognize that we are not “skin-encapsulated egos” – as British philosopher and writer Alan Watts called it – and that, in the last analysis, we are commensurate with the cosmic creative principle itself. Or that – using the statement by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and philosopher – “we are not human beings having spiritual experiences, we are spiritual beings having human experiences” (Teilhard de Chardin 1975),"...The Consciousness Revolution: New Perspectives in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy...by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
• Tabernanthe iboga
• Key Players in the Paths to the Divine Realm: The Entheogenic Tradition

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