Am Yisrael Chai or High? On psychedelic experience and Judaism, according to Madison Margolin, advocate of ‘Jewdelica’
These are interesting times, to say the least, for Jews, for whom the rallying cry Am Yisrael Chai has gained renewed relevance. These are even more interesting times for Jews whose motto seems to be Am Yisrael High, and who are creating what is being called a new Judaism inspired by psychedelic drugs. The Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman, who synthesized lysergic diethylamide in 1938 and accidentally discovered its hallucinogenic properties in 1943, called LSD “medicine … [Lees verder]