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I am an anthropologist, author and activist. From 1972-2014, I served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where I designed and taught a course on “Hallucinogens and Culture.” This course examines the use of entheogenic (God-generated-within) plants by tribal and classical cultures, including Ancient India and Greece, and by the modern mind-explorers, the psychonauts of the twentieth century.

My current book, The Psychedelic Gospels, grew out of a discovery I made at Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, while doing research for this course.

In addition to coauthoring The Psychedelic Gospels, I am also co-author of “Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on Entheogen-Use in Early Christian Rit ...more

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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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