http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/11/sacred-plants-chas-clifton-has.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/11/sacred-plants-chas-clifton-has.html#comment-273 Jason Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:34:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/11/869.html#comment-273 "Language shapes thinking"Quite right. I have changed the wording. “Language shapes thinking”Quite right. I have changed the wording.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/11/sacred-plants-chas-clifton-has.html#comment-272 Chas S. Clifton Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:04:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/11/869.html#comment-272 Jason,Thanks for the link. But you will note that I am promoting the term "entheogen" (bringing out the divine within) over either "hallucinogen" or "psychedelic." (I'll leave "psychotropic to the MD psychiatrists.)<a HREF="http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/ott_jonathan/ott_jonathan.shtml" rel="nofollow">Jonathan Ott</a> and others coined "entheogen" to get away both from the idea that these substances created "hallucinations" and to get away from the "turn on, tune in, drop out" 1960s association of "psychedelic."Language shapes thinking, but you knew that already.cheers,Chas Jason,Thanks for the link. But you will note that I am promoting the term “entheogen” (bringing out the divine within) over either “hallucinogen” or “psychedelic.” (I’ll leave “psychotropic to the MD psychiatrists.)Jonathan Ott and others coined “entheogen” to get away both from the idea that these substances created “hallucinations” and to get away from the “turn on, tune in, drop out” 1960s association of “psychedelic.”Language shapes thinking, but you knew that already.cheers,Chas

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