Those familiar with its readership and approach will find many representatives of what's now mainstream forms of Western practice within these pages. The contents of the volume originated in the Buddhist American magazine "Tricycle" in Fall 1996. A related article by Claudia Mueller-Ebeling and Christian Raetsch argues for a Nepalese and not Tibetan, shamanistic as well as Buddhist, explication of thangka paintings. Few of these wowed sober me, but your reaction may differ.
Tree all at once-will weigh down the branches and cause them to snap." (17)Īrts editor Alex Grey brings in many illustrations.
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Theĭanger is that the heavy fruit-too full and rich to be digested by the Likened the mind on psychedelics to an image of a tree whose branchesĪre overladen with low-hanging, very ripened, and heavy fruit. Use is all about altered states, Buddhism is all about altered traits,Īnd one does not necessarily lead to the other. Responsibility for their relationship to the source of their being, andįor access to the highest states of spirit mind." (16) Contrary to two superficial reviews of this anthology preceding this one on Amazon, a careful reading of primary material, let alone the thirty or so essays, reveals their nuances. In Buddhism, as in psychedelics, the individual takes Someone onto the path in the first place." (10)Įditor Allan Hunt Badiner promotes the individual's empowerment, freer of mediators or power structures:ĭemocratization of psychedelics, however, and of Buddhism to a similarĮxtent, has been very much about the breakdown of this restricted access Huston Smith's preface confronts us: " Entheogens have entered Buddhism to stay there can be no turning back from the point that has been reached." (14) Stephen Batchelor notes in his forward the crux of the Buddhist proscription against "intoxication"-some interpret this as to the "point of heedlessness." " Although certainĮcstatic Zen masters and Tantric yogins may be deemed sufficientlyĪwakened to be exempt from strict adherence to this precept, there is noĭiscussion about the role that drug use might play in propelling
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