What Ceremony Does to Psychedelics: On the Importance of Applying Integrated Theories of Ritual Value Generation to Psychedelic Studies
July 2, 2024 Mark Juhan Schunemann 1 citation
Background: This paper brings ethnographic and cultural studies into dialogue with ritual and value theory. It is based on the tripartite premise psychedelics can fundamentally effect humans’ involuntary reactions to beauty and goodness (sensorium), ways of being and acting in the world (habitus), and what we think can(not) be the case about the world ((super-)plausibility). Structure: Firstly,...