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Informationen zum Autor Allan Badiner served as the editor in the first and second editions of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Chronicle Books, 2002; Synergetic Press, 2015), and Alex Grey served as art editor. Allan also edited two other books of collected essays, Dharma Gaia: A Harvest in Buddhism and Ecology (Parallax Press, 1990) and Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax, 2002). He is a contributing editor of Tricycle magazine, and serves on the board of directors of Project CBD. He has been a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh for more than 25 years. Alex Grey is a renowned American visionary artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art. His work spans a variety of forms including performance art, sculpture and painting. He is a member of the Integral Institute, on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics and is Chair of Wisdom University’s Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors , CoSM, a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappinger, New York. Alex Grey served as art editor and a contributor to Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics , as well as releasing several other inspirational books featuring his visionary visual and verbal messages. Klappentext Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first enquiry into the ethical, doctrinal, and transcendental considerations of the intersection of Buddhism and psychedelics. Zusammenfassung Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first enquiry into the ethical, doctrinal, and transcendental considerations of the intersection of Buddhism and psychedelics. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLE DGEMENTS FOREWORD Stephen Batchelor PREFACE Huston Smith INTRODUCTION Allan Badiner Section One: INTERSECTION THE PLANT MEDICINE SUTRA Robert Schrei A NEW LOOK AT THE PSYCHEDELIC TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Ralph Metzner MYSTICISM: Contemplative and Chemical Roger Walsh DISSOLVING THE ROOTS OF SUFFERING Dokushô Villalba A HIGH HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA Rick Fields PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: DISCUSSION WITH JACK KORNFIELD Robert Forte BUDDHISM, SHAMANISM, AND THANGK A PAINTINGS Claudia Müller-Eberling and Christian Rätsch A BUDDHIST-PSYCHEDELIC HISTORY OF ESALEN INSTITUTE–INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MURPHY AND GEORGE LEONARD Allan Badiner SHADOW PATHS Peter Matthiessen A SURVE Y OF THE ENTHEOGENS Robert Jesse Section Two: CONCRESCENCE? VAJRAVISION Alex Grey DMT DHARMA Rick J. Strassman, MD PSYCHOACTIVISM David Chadwick LE ANING INTO RAWNESS Trudy Walter RELATIVE TRUTH Brigid Meier YAGÉ AND THE YANAS Allan Badiner JUNGLE DHARMA: THE INTERWEAVING OF BUDDHISM AND AYAHUASCA David Coyote BUDDHIST HARM REDUCTION AND CANNABIS Jana Drakka A TRIP NOT TAKEN China Galland THE PAISLEY GATE Erik Davis Section Three: LESSONS PSYCHE DELICS ON THE PATH: HELP OR HINDRANCE? Charles T. Tart BUDDHISM AND THE PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY–INTERVIEW WITH TERENCE MCKENNA Allan Badiner LIBERTY AND LSD John Perry Barlow RICK DOBLIN Interviewed by Allan Badiner WAKING YOURSELF Brad Warner THE ZEN COMMANDMENTS Lama Surya Das ON THE ...