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Just as psychedelic trips can show us unfathomable beauty, they can also show us unfathomable horror that rival any horror movie. In this episode, the latter half of a Halloween Double Feature, we'll explore the story of three horror trips, how they affected the people who experienced them, and why we need to discuss horror trips more often in psychedelic research and subculture.

What if psychedelics could allow us to speak with deceased loved ones or receive messages from beyond the grave? According to some psychedelic researchers and recreational users alike, it is possible. In this festive Halloween double-feature episode, you'll hear a fascinating narrative of mid-century psychedelic ghost stories and premonitions, followed by an analysis of what Christians should think about ghost stories in general, psychedelic or not.

This weekend, I was blessed to lead a workshop and a presentation at The Wild Goose Festival! During my time there, I met my online friend Kassidy Beane, known online as The HippieCatholic, and heard her talk on burnout, mysticism, and activism. In this bonus episode, The HippieCatholic and I explore how Christian ethics intersected with radical counterculture and psychedelic subculture in the 60s and 70s.

Some podcasters and psychonauts have claimed that Jesus never existed. Instead, he was a metaphor for magic mushrooms. How did this idea become so popular? Does it have any validity? Join Rev. Kaleb to explore the origins of this theory and why it became so popular in psychedelic subculture.

What if we could stay in the Spirit Molecule realm for hours, even days? What could we learn about the human mind? Learn more about DMT, the most common naturally occurring but a difficult-to-ingest psychedelic.

2C-B is a liminal psychedelic. Somewhere between the effects of LSD and MDMA, this substance possesses fantastic opportunities for exploration that are only beginning to unfold.

In this mini-episode, learn about the lesser-known psychedelic MDA and its legacy in an Episcopal church in NYC

In this podcast episode, listeners will learn about the potential and limitations of psychedelics for addressing world conflict and injustice. Through the stories of Palestinians and Israelis who took ayahuasca together, particularly an IDF elite force veteran and a formerly self-hating Palestinian raised in Israel, we will dive deeper into this topic and how insights may affect the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Solidarity Fast for Palestine is an interfaith movement of ministers, seminarians, and young people of faith and conscience. We will be going on hunger strike from March 18-22 to help pressure religious leaders and politicians to bring an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine as a whole. Support us @Solidarity.Fast.For.Palestine on Instagram or Facebook.

Sources used for this podcast include:

“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe.

“Except for Palestine” by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Phitnick.

“All That Remains” by Walid Khalidi.

“A Palestinian Theology of Liberation” by Naim Ateek.

“The Wall and the Gate” by Michael Sfard.

“Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis,” published in Frontiers in Pharmacology and written by Leor Roseman et al, 2021.

“On Revelations and Revolutions: Drinking Ayahuasca Among Palestinians Under Israeli Occupation,” published in Frontiers in Psychology and written by Leor Roseman and Nadeem Karkabi, 2021.

“The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza protests,” United Nations, 2019. ( https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/co-iopt/report2018-opt )

B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories 

( https://www.btselem.org/ ).

In this live recording from The Advocate Episcopal Church in Chapel Hill North Carolina, Kaleb Graves guides participants through an introduction to the Psychedelic Renaissance and the Christian church's place in it. 

Psychedelics can induce cognitive and sensory changes similar to those described by prophets, visionaries, and mystics, and as psychedelics enter the mainstream, those who partake are talking about their experiences. How should the church respond? How should a minister provide pastoral counseling to a veteran who was treated with DMT for PTSD, now claiming to have met Jesus? How should a campus pastor respond if a sophomore asks to give their testimony about converting to Christianity after an LSD trip?

What should lay leaders and trusted friends say if someone asks them to be a “trip sitter” during a psychedelic treatment for depression? Learn what psychedelic substances are, the kinds of experiences they can induce, and what these experiences may mean. Journey through church tradition and the scriptures to learn how ministers, lay leaders, parents, and peers can be equipped to provide spiritual and interpersonal care to someone participating in the Psychedelic Renaissance.

Come hear the greatest story rarely told: the 1970 Christmas Happening.