Psychedelic drugs

What are your thoughts on psychedelic drugs?

I think the potential for their use in healing is incredible.

From Jan Irvin's site.

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Gnostic Media Research & Publishing's podcast with host Jan Irvin.

A show that takes you far beyond the commonly understood concepts of religious practice, history, philosophy, the ancient mysteries, and politics, into the heart of cognizance itself.

My focus is to bring together the leading independent and academic scholars from their respective fields of study to discuss shamanism, entheogens / psychedelics, religion, fertility cults, archaeoastronomy, direct religious experience, politics, and much more.

My hope is that by providing a forum where both academic and independent scholars can present their ideas and research in a complete format, I will help to facilitate further understanding in these related fields - not only for the listening audience, but also for the researchers and everyone involved.

Here the word 'gnostic' pertains to knowledge, and not necessarily dogmatic "Gnostic" teachings. The word gnostic has it's origins in the word 'knowledge' or to know [Greek gnosis, knowledge, from gignoskein, to know].

This is a one of a kind show, so sit back and relax as I take you on journey through time to deepest recesses of your mind.

Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is an independent researcher, author and lecturer in ancient and modern religious practices.

He's the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity; A critical re-evaluation of the schism between John M. Allegro and R. Gordon Wasson over the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity presented in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 2008. For more information, please see TheHolyMushroom.com

Jan is the co-author of Astrotheology & Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots, 2006/2009, and co-producer of The Pharmacratic Inquisition DVD, 2007, with Andrew Rutajit. See www.gnosticmedia.com and Pharmacratic-Inquisition.com

He is the publisher of the 40th anniversary edition of John Marco Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and is also the curator of the official John Allegro website and has contributed much to the re-examination of many of Allegro’s theories. See JohnAllegro.org

Now available from Gnostic Media!

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I've become a fan of Irvin since I listened to the Eustace Mullins interview and the Gatto interview that C1 posted.

Irvin's show is one of the least noise-filled out there.

Hah! Yeah, Irvin is a home run slugger that seems to knock another one out of the park each time he does a new show. Did you catch his latest piece on Joseph Smith and the early Mormons?

It has been proven in clinical studies that the hallucinogen Ibogain is peerless for the treatment of addictions but of course the FDA will not approve it.

http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-05-02T23_55_58-07_00.mp3

You can also do flotation tank therapy/sensory deprivation for a psychedelic experience which is completely legal, not too expensive, and I think less risky as it is your mind producing the experience on it's own without the help of drugs or chemicals. I am going to try it before moving on to shrooms and more powerful stuff.

Kraig, I think I'd need some heavy drugs to bust down my ego! LOL

these are not to be taken lightly

I remember when as a teenager, when I was going through hard times, I still attempted to take acid recreationally. BAD IDEA.