Psychedelic Theology

Jesus Christ: The Greatest Machine Elf

Yes, you read that right. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and enjoy a comparison between Jesus Christ and psychonaut Terence McKenna's understanding of the Machine Elves that can be encountered on high-dose psilocybin and DMT trips. Dive into the self-dribbling jeweled basketballs, entheogen glossolalia, and psychedelic Christmas metaphors for the embodiment of living language.
 
 

Folk Catholicism and Psychedelics: LIVE at the Wild Goose Festival

It's time for the second annual live recording of the Psychedelic Theology Podcast at the Wild Goose Festival with the HippieCatholic Kassidy Beane! In this episode, we talk psychedelics, Folk Catholicism, and theologies of liberation. Many psychedelic religious movements incorporate folk Catholicism, and any systematic psychedelic theology must include their voices.The Wild Goose Festival is the largest gathering of Christian thinkers and advocates about psychedelics in the world. If you want to expand your mind, and your faith, this is the place to be. Come join us next year!
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Ecstatic Vision: MDMA and Christianity

The story of Adam and EVE, a Catholic seminarian turned Ecstasy kingpin, a Benedictine monk with 25 trips, a holy-rolling Sunday School teacher, and the Christian university whose ban on liquor accidentally sparked a culture of XTC

Harm Reduction Is Sacred

Take a journey with me through the Bible, medieval and ancient sex work, the streets of New York City, and Bonnaroo Music Festival to understand the Christian theology of harm reduction! We'll also review ways to keep ourselves and others safe when using psychedelics and "hard" drugs.

Psychedelics and the Death of God

In the 1960s, a question emerged amount some theologians: is God dead? In the face of nuclear holocaust, scientific advancement, and changing social norms, was it time for Christians to admit there is no God? Or is it possible God actually grew weak and died?
 
Some of these theologians and their ideas interacted with psychedelic drugs. Non-dual LSD trips seemed to annihilate the dualist Christian framework.
 
Beginning with the 1960s and ending in the present day, we’ll tackle similar problems in this new episode. In the face of Climate Change, postmodern spirituality, and non-dualist psychedelic experience, does it make any sense to believe in God anymore? Is God dead?

Horror Trips

This episode includes graphic material. Listener discretion is advised.
Just as psychedelic trips can show us unfathomable beauty, they can also show us unfathomable horror that rival any horror movie. In this episode, the latter half of a Halloween Double Feature, we'll explore the story of three horror trips, how they affected the people who experienced them, and why we need to discuss horror trips more often in psychedelic research and subculture.
 

Psychedelic Ghost Stories - Double Feature

What if psychedelics could allow us to speak with deceased loved ones or receive messages from beyond the grave? According to some psychedelic researchers and recreational users alike, it is possible. In this festive Halloween double-feature episode, you'll hear a fascinating narrative of mid-century psychedelic ghost stories and premonitions, followed by an analysis of what Christians should think about ghost stories in general, psychedelic or not.

LIVE with the HippieCatholic at the Wild Goose Festival

This weekend, I was blessed to lead a workshop and a presentation at The Wild Goose Festival! During my time there, I met my online friend Kassidy Beane, known online as The HippieCatholic, and heard her talk on burnout, mysticism, and activism. In this bonus episode, The HippieCatholic and I explore how Christian ethics intersected with radical counterculture and psychedelic subculture in the 60s and 70s.Recorded just two hours before the attempted assassination of former President Trump, this episode has eerily relevant insights on how psychedelics, Christianity, and counterculture can be guided away from needless violence and towards peace and justice.

Was Jesus a Mushroom?

Some podcasters and psychonauts have claimed that Jesus never existed. Instead, he was a metaphor for magic mushrooms. How did this idea become so popular? Does it have any validity? Join Rev. Kaleb to explore the origins of this theory and why it became so popular in psychedelic subculture.

DMT - An Entheogen Guide Mini-Episode

What if we could stay in the Spirit Molecule realm for hours, even days? What could we learn about the human mind? Learn more about DMT, the most common naturally occurring but a difficult-to-ingest psychedelic.