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Benny Shanon Reveals a Speculative Hypothesis on Biblical Entheogens

By admin • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: News & Events

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, releases a paper outlining a hypothesis that entheogenic plants including ayahuasca analogues formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times.


Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions

By admin • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Mythos, Visionary Plants

Benny Shanon, Ph.D.
AYAHUASCA IS FAMOUS for the visions it generates. Commonalities appear in the visions of individuals from different personal and cultural backgrounds. This essay explores these commonalities from a phenomenological viewpoint.


Ayahuasca, Religion and Nature

By admin • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Visionary Plants

By Morgan Brent
Plant-inspired religions can be understood as acts of guidance by an elder community of species to a younger one, the human. They are concerned with successful co-creative relations within the community of nature and the organismic and spiritual growth that these bring about.