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Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches 2023
Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches is a 2023 book written by independent researcher and writer Mike Marinacci. It tells the story of psychedelic churches and cults in North America during the 20th century. The work offers a thorough history of a previously underexplored movement involving spiritual groups that used substances like LSD and cannabis.
The book documents 66 psychedelic churches active in the United States, Canada, and Jamaica. Of these, 18 are considered main churches while 48 are secondary, smaller, or less-known groups. Examples include the Native American Church (NAC), Peyote Way Church of God (PWCG), League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD), Neo-American Church (OKNeoAC), Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Church of the Tree of Life (TOLC), Temple of the True Inner Light (TTIL), and Psychedelic Venus Church (PVC). The book does not include psychedelic churches from other regions such as the Santo Daime church in Brazil.
J. Christian Greer, a religious scholar and historian known for his studies on psychedelic religion and coining the term "psychedelicism," wrote the foreword. Reviews of the book have appeared in various publications.
Details
- Publisher
- Park Street Press (Simon and Schuster)
- ISBN
- 9781644117071
- Pages
- 384
