Psychedelic Gospels

This richly-illustrated blog examines the role of psychedelics in Judeo-Christianity, in indigenous shamanism, and in classical cultures such as Greece and India. Here you will travel along with the authors on their anthropological adventures in Europe and the Middle East, discovering evidence of psychedelics in churches and cathedrals, and in scriptures and sacred texts.

Russian Edition of The Psychedelic Gospels

The book you hold in your hands is epoch-making. Its significance for ethnomycology can only be compared with the Wassons’ book Mushrooms, Russia and History.

Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels

“Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies, October 2019, by Jerry B. and Julie M. Brown Abstract: In light of new historical evidence regarding ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson’s correspondence with art historian Erwin Panofsky, this article provides an in-depth analysis of the presence of entheogenic mushroom images in […]

Third Eye Drops Podcast: Resurrecting the Mystery School

Third Eye Drops podcast, “Resurrecting the Mystery School,” with The Psychedelic Gospels coauthor Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D. Podcast host Michael Phillip invites all “wonder seekers” to listen in to this “psychedelic Indian Jones” story, which lays the foundation for a “techno-delic future” by probing the past to reveal the secret history of psychedelics in Christianity and other world religions.

Five Sacred Psychedelic Sites

There is an old saying: If you want to hide something, put it in plain sight. To our surprise, we learned that this saying is especially true for Christianity, where medieval works of art were created to illustrate the teachings of the Bible for the largely illiterate population. A close look at these religious works […]

Synchronicity: Fate or Coincidence?

Our book, The Psychedelic Gospels, was born and nurtured by synchronicity. For Stanislav Grof, the founder of LSD psychotherapy, synchronicities – the experience of highly implausible, meaningful coincidences – are “creations of cosmic intelligence.” (For a comprehensive discussion of “synchronicity,” see C.G. Jung’s “Foreword” to Richard Wilhelm’s translation of The I Ching, or Book of […]

The Psychedelic Gospels