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Erowid Library : 'Stairways to Heaven'
Fuller now looks more broadly at how Americans have looked to a host of drugs to open vistas to the Sacred and cement bonds with fellow seekers. . . . Stairways to Heaven presents a virtually psychedelic panorama of drug use in American religion past and present. Fuller shows that pharmacological and oenological religion, whether viewed as angelic or demonic, has not been a mere curiosity, but a frequent sidebar to American faith. while aspects of this story have been studied before, particularly in relation to William James, Aldous Huxley, and the drop-out, turn-on Sixties, this book gives the big picture and shows the connections. . . . The author explores the broader cultural contexts that influence the meaning and significance of both legal and illegal drugs such as peyote, jimson weed, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, marijuana, wine, and coffee, which have stimulated ecstatic revelations of spiritual truth in the search for ecstasy. Plants covered in this treatment in communities of faith have been transformed into occasional spiritual and mystical experiences to permit momentary transcendence of our normal range of mental and emotional powers, allowing individuals to step outside the confines of their physical sense. A major addition to any library!

posted by LoZo 8:38 PM