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Council on Spiritual Practices
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General

  • Home
  • About CSP
  • Copyrights
  • Psilocybin Research
  • Why This Work?
    • Alexander and Ann Shulgin
    • Mark Kleiman
    • Nancy Hollander
    • Huston Smith
    • Willis Harman
  • Religious Leader Study
    • Information on Entheogens, Spirituality, and Religion
    • Implications for Religious Scholarship
  • The CSP William James Awards
    • Awards
    • The Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Western Spirituality and Religiosity Constructs to the Philippines: Spirituality as a Universal Aspect of Human Experience
    • An EEG investigation into the neurophysiology of the dissolution of self/non-self boundaries using meditation and psilocybin
    • A Construct Validity Study of the Self-Expansiveness Level Form: A Multitrait-multimethod Matrix Criterion Approach
    • Spatial and Temporal Continuities in Phenomenal Experience in Fringe and Different States of Consciousness
    • Creativity and Religious Experience: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Several Measures
    • Maripa: Integrative Consciousness and Pyscho-Social Healing among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
    • Liquid Light of the Santo Daime: Plant Medicines and their Potential for Personal and Cultural Transformation Via Direct Experience of the Divine
    • The Mystical Writings Of Madeleine du Bois de Fontaines (1578-1637)
    • The Sacred Self: A Study of Sanctification of the Self in College Students and its Implications for Self-Functioning
    • The Relationship Between Spirituality, and Coping Skills and Depression Among Bereaved Individuals
    • The Wilderness Experience and Spiritual Transcendence
    • Interpersonal Guilt, Spirituality, and Religiosity: An Empirical Investigation of Relationships
    • Religiosity, Mysticism, and Health in Abused and Nonabused Women
    • Mystical Consciousness and the Perception of Paradox: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Mystical Experience and Reason
  • Awe To Action
    • About
    • Parking
    • Program
    • Contact
    • Presenters
  • Guestbook

Spiritual Development

  • Spiritual Development
  • Code of Ethics for Spiritual Guides
  • Spiritual Development: Outcomes and Indicators
  • Links

Spiritual Practices

  • Spiritual Practices
  • Writings
    • Living with Theological Diversity
  • Meditation
    • Excerpt On Meditation
    • Excerpt on Mysticism & Meditation
  • Prayer
  • Yoga
    • Entheogen Yoga
  • Entheogens

Spiritual Experience

  • Spiritual Experience
  • Writings
    • Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three-Factor Structure in the United States and Iran
    • The Mystical Core of Organized Religion
  • Readings
    • Recommended Readings on Primary Religious Experience
    • Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions.
    • Mysticism and Philosophy
    • Characteristics of Extrovertive Mystical States
    • Harvard Divinity School Address
    • States of Unitive Consciousness
    • Peak and Non-peak Experiences in Response to DPT
    • Noetic Gnosis: Cosmic Consciousness
    • Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions: Toward an Empirically Testable Dualism
    • Mysticism as the Crossing of Ultimate Boundaries
    • The Interspiritual Age: Practical Mysticism for the Third Millennium
    • The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
  • The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
    • Preface
    • Religion and Neurology
    • Circumscription of the Topic
    • The Reality of the Unseen
    • The Religion of Healthy Mindedness
    • The Sick Soul
    • The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification
    • Conversion
    • Conversion - Conclusion
    • Saintliness
    • The Value of Saintliness
    • Mysticism
    • Philosophy
    • Other Characteristics
    • Conclusions
    • Postscript

Spiritual Communities

  • Spiritual Traditions & Communities
  • Writings
    • A Question of Balance: Health and Pathology in New Religious Movements
  • Resources
    • Recommended Readings
  • Native American Spirituality
    • Recommended Readings
    • A Brief History of the Native American Church
    • One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church

Entheogen Project

  • Entheogen Project
  • On Nomenclature
  • CSP Entheogen Book Series
    • Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy
    • Entheogens and the Future of Religion
    • Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion
    • The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries.
    • Cleansing the Doors of Perception
  • Excerpts
    • Excerpts from Cleansing the Doors of Perception
    • Excerpts from Psychoactive Sacramentals
  • Writings
    • Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals
    • C.G. Jung Letter to Victor White
    • Hallucinogens and Religion: Historical to Scientific Perspectives
    • Drugs That Shape Men's Minds
    • The Good Friday Marsh Chapel Experiment
    • The Psychedelic Experience - lessons from the 60s
    • Psychedelic Theophanies And The Religious Life
    • Do Entheogen-induced Mystical Experiences Boost the Immune System?
    • Drugs and Mysticism
    • Quotations
    • Do Psychedelic Drugs Mimic Awakened Kundalini?
    • The Agony and Ecstasy of God's path
    • Ho Chunk Meeting
    • If I Could Change Your Mind
    • A Note on the Safety of Peyote when Used Religiously
    • The Use of Music in Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy
  • Resources
    • Zeff Memorial Library
  • Links
  • People
    • Huston Smith
  • Readings
    • Recommended Readings on Peyote
    • American Academy of Religion review
    • Barnes & Noble Internet Chat with Huston Smith
    • The Peyote Book: A Study of Native Medicine
    • People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
    • Peyote Religion: A History
    • A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Entheogen Chrestomathy

  • Copyright Information
  • Index
  • Introductions

Society & Law

  • Society and Law
  • Writings
    • Neutrality vs. neutrality
    • Testimony of the Council on Spiritual Practices
    • Entheogens and the Free Exercise Clause
  • Links

Religious Leader Study

Religious Leaders needed to help with research in Baltimore or New York

Suggest Edits

Information on entheogens, spirituality, and religion

Overview of psilocybin research at Johns Hopkins

Implications for religious scholarship

Scientific articles and media reports