Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals

Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience

Offers a reconsideration of the potential of mind-expanding compounds from a religious point of view.

Huston Smith

New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam

Ch. 1. Empirical Metaphysics -- Ch. 2. Do Drugs Have Religious Import? -- Ch. 3. Psychedelic Theophanies and the Religious Life -- Ch. 4. Historical Evidence: India's Sacred Soma -- Ch. 5. The Sacred Unconscious -- Ch. 6. Contemporary Evidence: Psychiatry and the Work of Stanislav Grof -- Ch. 7. The Good Friday Experiment -- Ch. 8. The Case of Cardinal John Henry Newman -- Ch. 9. Entheogenic Religions: The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Native American Church -- Ch. 10. Something Like a Summing-Up -- App. A. Secularization and the Sacred: The Contemporary Scene -- App. B. Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove: A Televised Interview.

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