BELMONT, Massachusetts (JTA) — When Rick Doblin was in his early 20s, he had a dream in which he was escorted back in time to witness a Holocaust survivor’s narrow escape from the Nazis. In his mind, Doblin traveled to Eastern Europe to witness thousands of Jews lined up alongside a mass grave as the […]
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Jewish psychedelics reformer Rick Doblin wants to see therapeutic MDMA legalized
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy
King Udayana Religious Financial Reformer of Ancient Bali
September 8th, 2020 Awake Goy
In ancient India, legendary King Udayana was a king of the city of Kaushambi in the north-central India as well as a patron of Shakyamuni Buddha. The Buddhist scripture Samyutta Nikaya records Udayana’s conversion to Buddhism after his visit to the monk Pindola Bharadvaja. Two fourth-century plays by the ancient Indian poet Bhasa, the Svapnavasavadattam […]
What It’s Like For American Drug Reformer To Go To A Country With A Compassionate System
April 4th, 2018 Awake Goy
The American activists couldn’t wrap their heads around it. Sitting in a dingy office in a nondescript building in central Lisbon, they were being provided a fine-grained explanation of what happens to people caught with small amounts of drugs in Portugal, which decriminalized the possession of personal use amounts of drugs 17 years ago. The […]