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Anna Sierka

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God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

January 13, 2025 Anna Sierka

Building on Derrida's essay Plato's Pharmacy, the current article examines sacred versus profane illuminations within the spiritual realm of Judaism.As exemplified by the marking nut (baldhur), I survey exoteric-curative and esoteric-altered states of consciousness inducing deployments of this medicinal plant fruit.Retracing the veiled pharmacopoeias that blur the lines between medicine and...