Medical research in psychedelics in the West has re-emerged in the 21st century after the research in the 1950s and early 1960s had collapsed by 1966 (Pollan 2018, 220). The results of recent research have been promising in the treatment of anxiety in terminal cancer patients and in the treatment of addiction and depression. Even at this early stage, the beneficial effects of psychedelics in...
The article assesses Arthur Schopenhauer’s reinterpretation of religious myths, particularly those of Christianity, in terms of his philosophical system, and applies his ideas to the mythical cosmology of shamanistic and animistic religions. Schopenhauer, a 19th-century Romantic philosopher, although an atheist himself, took religious myths very seriously, translating them into the terms of his...