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What's New - A Chronological Index
20 January 2004
CSP grants a William James Award for doctoral research to B. Rael Cahn (University of California, San Diego). Read his abstract here.
31 March 2003
New Chrestomathy entry
15 March 2003
CSP grants William James Awards for doctoral research to Todd Bresnick (Yeshiva University) and James D. Pappas (Saybrook Gradute School and Research Center). Read their abstracts here.
19 November 2002
New Chrestomathy entries
2 July 2002
Read the summary of "Hallucinogens and Religion: Historical to Scientific Perspectives," a symposium from the 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependance. Published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., et al., confirm similarities in the religious experience of Christian Americans and Iranain Muslims in "Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three-Factor Structure in the United States and Iran." Read abstract here.
12 Feb 2002
New Chrestomathy entries
5 Feb 2002
New Chrestomathy entries
2 Feb 2002
New Chrestomathy entries
11 Jan 2002
In a 1954 letter to Victor White, C.G. Jung considers the limits of the "psychotherapeutic value" of entheogens. Read the letter here.
30 Nov 2001
CSP grants William James Awards to Ethan R. Benore
(Bowling Green State University) and Cheryl A. Falkenstein, (Temple University). Read their abstracts here.
1 Nov 2001
CSP publishes Psychoactive Sacramentals. Read excerpts from this new anthology in the Entheogen Project Series.
22 June 2001
Read an excerpt from W.T. Stace's Mysticism and Philosophy listing common characteristics of mystical experiences.
9 May 2001
New Chrestomathy entries
- Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps, edited by Jensine Andresen and Robert Forman
- Stages of Faith, by James W. Fowler
- Psychology of the Future, by Stanislav Grof
- Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen, by David L. Spess
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule, by Rick Strassman
- Roll Away the Stone, by Israel Regardie
- Collecting, Codifying and Commodifying Art, by Carey Million
- San Francisco Rock Posters, 1965-1971, by Sally Anne Tomlinson
- Violence and War with Clinical Studies, edited by Jules H. Masserman
8 May 2001
Read the American Academy of Religion review of Huston Smith's Cleansing
the Doors of Perception.
31 Dec 2000
Entheogens and the Future of Religion is now in its second printing. Look at comments on and excerpts from CSP's 1997 anthology here.
16 Nov 2000
New Chrestomathy entries
15 Nov 2000
New Chrestomathy entries
16 July 2000
New Chrestomathy entries
- America, Religions and Religion, by Catherine L. Albanese
- Changing Human Behavior, by O. Lee McCabe
- Exploring Prehistoric Europe, by Chris Scarre
- Extreme Prejudice, Excessive Force, Zero Tolerance, by Jonathan David White
- The Living Goddesses, by Marija Gimbutas
- Mysticism After Modernity, by Don Cupitt
- Unknown Immortals In the City of Success, by Herbert Moore Pim
- Zen and the Birds of Appetite, by Thomas Merton
1 Feb 2000
New Chrestomathy entries
- A Brief History of Drugs, by Antonio Escohotado
- Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions, by Jaak Panksepp
- The Age of the Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
- Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Your Mind?, by Dennis Gersten
- Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature, edited by Ralph Metzner
- Cannabis and Culture, edited by Vera Rubin
- The Ecstatic Journey, by Sophy Burnham
- The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor, by J.G. Macqueen
- Mauve Gloves & Madmen, & Clutter & Vine, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays, by Tom Wolfe
- Orientalism and Religion, by Richard King
- The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier . . ., by John Greenleaf Whittier
31 Jan 2000
New Chrestomathy entries
- The Civilization of the Goddess, by Maija Gimbutas
- Exploring Ecstasy: A Description of MDMA Users, by Beck, Harlow, McDonnell, Morgan, Rosenbaum, and Watson.
- Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, by the National Commission on Marihuana
- Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion, by Jordan Paper
- Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief, by Daniel C. Swan
- Zen and the Brain, by James H. Austin
17 Nov 1999
Code of Ethics for Spiritual Guides revised ("boundless awareness" added to preamble).
1 Nov 1999
In The Two Sources of Morality and Religion French philosopher Henri Bergson concluded that the love experienced in "complete mystical consciousness" expresses itself as an impetus for constructive social change and continuing advances in the evolution of humanity. Read an excerpt here.
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