Zig zag Zen
Subtitle: Buddhism and psychedelics
By: edited by Allan Badiner ; art editor Alex Grey ; preface by Huston Smith ; foreword by Stephen Batchelor
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Synergetic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780907791614; 9780907791621
Subjects: Drugs; Buddhism; Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Stephen Batchelor; title: Preface / Huston Smith; title: Introduction / Allan Badiner.; title: Section one: Intersection (The plant medicine sutra / Robert Schrei ; A new look at the psychedelic Tibetan Book of the Dead / Ralph Metzner ; Mysticism: contemplative and chemical / Roger Walsh ; Dissolving the roots of suffering / Dokushó Villalba ; A high history of Buddhism in America / Rick Fields ; Psychedelic experience and spiritual practice: discussion with Jack Kornfield / Robert Forte ; Buddhism, shamanism, and Thangka paintings / Claudia Müller-Eberling. Christian Rätsch ; A Buddhist-psychedelic history of Egalen Institute: interview with Michael Murphy and George Leonard / Allan Badiner ; Shadow paths / Peter Matthiessen ; A survey of the entheogens / Robert Jesse).; title: Section two: Concrescence? (Vajravision / Alex Grey ; DHT dharma / Rick J. Strassman ; Psychoactivism / David Chadwick ; Leaning into rawness / Trudy Walter ; Relative truth / Brigid Meier ; Yagé and the Yanas / Allan Badiner ; Jungle dharma: the interweaving of Buddhism and Ayahuasca / David Coyote ; Buddhist harm reduction and cannabis / Jana Drakka ; A trip not taken / China Galland ; The paisley gate / Erik Davis).; title: Section three: Lessons (Psychedelics on the path: help or hindrance? / Charles T. Tart ; Buddhism and the psychedelic society: interview with Terence McKenna / Allan Badiner ; Liberty and LSD / John Perry Barlow ; Rick Doblin / interviewed by Allan Badiner ; Waking yourself / Brad Warner ; The Zen commandments / Lama Surya Das ; On the front lines / interview with Michele McDonald ; Do we still need psychedelics? / Myron Stolaroff ; Buddhism and psychedelics: a public dialogue with James Fadiman and Kokya Henkel ; A roundtable with Ram Dass, Robert Aitken Roshi, Richard Baker Roshi and Joan Halifax Roshi / Allan Badiner).