A Look at Entheogenic Culture and History

Published on the Microdose.buzz website: https://microdose.buzz/news/a-look-at-entheogenic-culture-and-history/

For most of us, the consciousness we experience in our day-to-day lives, what we perceive to be “normal,” is directed towards just that, the day-to-day. We are blinkered both culturally and neuropharmacologically to focus on the task in front of us.  When we relax, this state changes, our mind wanders, crossing between multiple ongoing internal narratives in a matter of moments, school, work, dinner tonight, dinner tomorrow, children, parents, partners.  A powerful aspect of our day-to-day thought process is placating those thoughts about our mortality or questions around our purpose and what we value as important.  Many people find solace in long-standing belief systems of traditions that provide a reassuring sense of purpose, while others find their own private beliefs.  In some societies, there is the socially sanctioned use of entheogenic compounds to find self and find the divine.

Entheogens remove us from our day-to-day experience of life and, in some cases, remove us from time and space, imparting a sense of the infinite. By removing ourselves from the usual, by suspending our social context, through psychological transformation, we can often gain a better perspective of who we are and what we want from life – to see complex events in our lives in new ways and start a healing process. It may seem like a cliche, but humans have stared at the stars since time immemorial, wondering about their place in the universe; in a similar sense, humans have used entheogens to help find a renewed sense of perspective.