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Sep 07, 2024
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HUMN 7379 - Plants of the Gods: Religion and Psychedelics Credits: 3
Examines the religious use of entheogens (psychedelic substances such as peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, and ayahuasca) throughout history to catalyze powerful visionary and mystical experiences and commune with sacred beings. Explores the sometimes forceful rejection within Western culture of these natural substances and their man-made psychedelic (e.g., mescaline, DMT, and LSD) and investigates the scientific study of these substances from the 1950s through the early 1970s and then from the 1990s into the 21st century. May be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities; global studies (non-Western).
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