Catholicism, Psychedelics, and Mysticism: Correlations and Displacements

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

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cite Steindle-Rast, David, OSB. 2020. Introduction: Psychoactive Sacramentals. pp. 1-5 in T. B. Roberts, Psychedelics & Spirituality.

useful references for future writings:

Ellens, J. Harold (ed)

----The Psychedelic Policy Quagmire

---Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances  2 vols

Patrick McNamara: Where God and Science Meet, 3 vols.

Author would gain credibility if he/they referred to their own psychedelic experiences. As another author wrote, "A psychedelically inexperienced writer about psychedelic religious/spiritual experience has the credibility of a eunuch writing about sexual experience."  This applies to many of the sources cited.

A question that would have added to this paper:

Would experimental sessions for religious philosophers, clergy, and other professionals shed light on this topic? Perhaps we need a dedicated religious order, guild, etc. to examine this topic? Or other experience-based evidence.

 

Huston Smith's "Cleansing the Doors of Perception" would be more up-to-date on his judgments.

William Richards' "Sacred Knowledge" would be more up-to-date too.

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