The three hosts (Astra, Fel and Hanne) discuss the science and history of entheogens in spiritual practices, how scholarship has changed and how it differs from other trance inducing practices. A general content warning for this episode, there will be a discussion surrounding drug use and its effects.

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Resources:

• Effects of Ayahuasca

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-waking-dream/

• Speculative ethnobotanical perspectives on the Norse berserkers

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31404578/

• The “Vine of the Soul” vs. The Controlled Substances Act: Implications of the Hoasca Case

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2008.10400630

• Quasi-Experimental Elicitation of the Differential Report of Religious Experience among Intrinsic and Indiscriminately Pro-Religious Types

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1387425?seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contents

• Psilocybin and mystical-type experiences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5

• Of Roots and Fruits: A Comparison of Psychedelic and Nonpsychedelic Mystical Experiences

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022167816674625