Thomas B. Roberts is an emeritus professor at Northern Illinois University.
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Deepen Religious Experiences
04-29-2016
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Religion can likely benefit from psychedelics, and now clergy can help prove it. Johns Hopkins Medical School’s Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit is recruiting clergy as research volunteers in a study of “entheogens,” which are chemicals, usually derived from plants, that are ingested to produce an altered state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes.