magic clown
aka Slap Stick Sam
What a load of crap. Anybody who dosn't understand what an entheogen is better take note. Of course MDMA is an entheogen. This is our entheogen. Indians in the Amazon have theirs, Raindeer herders of the tundra have theirs, we have ours. So the rave culture dosn't worship some suprenatural sky spirit, as our ancestors did. But what do you think replaced it? So we are not a predominantly religious people any longer, but we still have a yearning for spiritual experiance and a feeling of togetherness. MDMA provides that in spades.
You ingest some molecule or other, wether it be 2cb, methylone, MDMA, cylocybin etc. you have taken an entheogenic substance. If you choose to interperate anything that has come out of a laboratry as being non-entheogenic, you are missing the point entirely. The context is the crucial determinator. For some the rave is a church for others a camp fire.
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An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic (or entheogenic) context. Entheogens generally come from plant sources which contain molecules closely related to endogenous neurochemicals. They occur in a wide variety of psychedelics of various religious rites and have been shown to directly provoke what users perceive as spiritual or mystical experiences (see Good Friday Experiment). In a broader sense, the word "entheogen" refers to any molecule which stimulates the central nervous system through one of the two main neurological pathways: phenethylamine (which is a brain chemical associated with the adrenaline pathway, and a precursor of mescaline and 2C-B) and tryptamine (a brain chemical associated with the natural metabolism of serotonin, a precursor of psilocin, psilocybin, DMT, and LSD).[1] Cooper, Bloom and Roth describe the metabolic pathways by which these neurochemicals are produced in the body.[2] Through enzyme reactions, the brain creates more complex molecules with a higher binding affinity with unique neurological and cognitive results. See Federal Analog Act.
These chemicals, whose use predate written language, are the essence of the entheogens and are banned. Entheogens are molecules which induce alterations of consciousness identical in many ways to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional shamanic inebriants. Examples are far reaching ancient sources predating the modern era: such as Greek: kykeon; African: Iboga; Vedic: Soma, Amrit. Entheogens have been safely utilized in a ritualized context for thousands of years.
If you allow others to dictate to you what is or what isn't an legitamate entheogen, you are allowing those who wish to supress our activities another victory. Stop doing it you ought to know better. I am fed up of hearing people say mushrooms are, Cannabis may be, MDMA isnt but 2CB can be. They all can be and all can't be depending on what you consider an entheogen is. I know where I stand on this matter and its with the indians.
You ingest some molecule or other, wether it be 2cb, methylone, MDMA, cylocybin etc. you have taken an entheogenic substance. If you choose to interperate anything that has come out of a laboratry as being non-entheogenic, you are missing the point entirely. The context is the crucial determinator. For some the rave is a church for others a camp fire.
Cut and paste from Wikipedia...
An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic (or entheogenic) context. Entheogens generally come from plant sources which contain molecules closely related to endogenous neurochemicals. They occur in a wide variety of psychedelics of various religious rites and have been shown to directly provoke what users perceive as spiritual or mystical experiences (see Good Friday Experiment). In a broader sense, the word "entheogen" refers to any molecule which stimulates the central nervous system through one of the two main neurological pathways: phenethylamine (which is a brain chemical associated with the adrenaline pathway, and a precursor of mescaline and 2C-B) and tryptamine (a brain chemical associated with the natural metabolism of serotonin, a precursor of psilocin, psilocybin, DMT, and LSD).[1] Cooper, Bloom and Roth describe the metabolic pathways by which these neurochemicals are produced in the body.[2] Through enzyme reactions, the brain creates more complex molecules with a higher binding affinity with unique neurological and cognitive results. See Federal Analog Act.
These chemicals, whose use predate written language, are the essence of the entheogens and are banned. Entheogens are molecules which induce alterations of consciousness identical in many ways to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional shamanic inebriants. Examples are far reaching ancient sources predating the modern era: such as Greek: kykeon; African: Iboga; Vedic: Soma, Amrit. Entheogens have been safely utilized in a ritualized context for thousands of years.
If you allow others to dictate to you what is or what isn't an legitamate entheogen, you are allowing those who wish to supress our activities another victory. Stop doing it you ought to know better. I am fed up of hearing people say mushrooms are, Cannabis may be, MDMA isnt but 2CB can be. They all can be and all can't be depending on what you consider an entheogen is. I know where I stand on this matter and its with the indians.