Psychedelic Mysticism
Subtitle: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781498509091
Subjects: Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience; Hippies; Counterculture
Description: Although commonly celebrated as a distinct manifestation of Americana, hippies and psychedelics are routinely de-emphasized in favor of direct political activism, a phenomenon that constrains the full telling of the hippie counterculture as it relates to a radical religiosity defined by mutuality and altruism. Psychedelic Mysticism reevaluates the religious significance of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture, tracing how psychedelics became entheogenic, leading sixties figures to transition personal moments of enlightenment into everyday projects of social justice.