Podcasts about Marsh Chapel

In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the most fantastic of fungi, psilocybin mushrooms. They we explore ancient and modern history, therapeutic and ceremonial uses, current research, and more. Whether you're new to psychedelics or an experienced psychonaut, there's' something in this episode for you. (1:00) Maria Sabina(4:02) Gordon and Valentina Wasson(5:37) How To Change Your Mind on Netflix(6:30) Hapé podcast episode(7:12) Fantastic Fungi and Paul Stamets(8:16) How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan(9:37) Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert on "set and setting"(10:40) The "Good Friday" Marsh Chapel psilocybin experiment(13:19) Do psychedelics change your spiritual beliefs (15:35) Psilocybin made illegal(17:34) Is psilocybin harmful or addictive?(19:46) Psilocybin therapy for substance use disorders(22:09) Psilocybin dosing (24:08) Placebo controlled trials(29:25) Episode with Paul Austin about microdosing(34:16) Difficult psychedelic experiences and combining medicines(37:13) Possible applications for psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy (39:54) REBUS and what's happening in the brain with psilocybin (48:00) How psilocybin is different from traditional antidepressants(51:00) Is the chemical imbalance theory of depression accurate?(55:22) What can we learn from the brain from psychedelics?Email us questions and feedback at psychfrontiers@novamind.ca Learn more about our podcast at https://www.psychedelictherapyfrontiers.com/Learn more about Novamind at https://www.novamind.ca/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstevethayer/https://www.instagram.com/innerspacedoctor/https://www.instagram.com/novamind_inc/Disclaimer: The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice or mental health treatment. Consult with a medical/mental health professional if you believe you are in need of mental health treatment.

Sixty years ago on Good Friday, a famous experiment took place at Boston University's Marsh Chapel conducted by Harvard Divinity School student Walter Pahnke, where he tried to answer the question: Do psychedelic drugs occasioned mystical experiences? In 2022, conversations about the connections between psychedelics, science and medicine, and spirituality are again top of mind, from Harvard and the academy to research hospitals and beyond. In this episode, Harvard Divinity School student Paul Gillis-Smith speaks to scholar J. Christian Greer about the impact of the “Marsh Chapel Miracle,” what role psychedelics might play in the future of religion, and why, he says, there's potential for great harm, but reasons to be hopeful, too. Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/05/12/psychedelics-spirituality-culture-seekership

Sixty years ago on Good Friday, a famous experiment took place at Boston University's Marsh Chapel conducted by Harvard Divinity School student Walter Pahnke, where he tried to answer the question: Do psychedelic drugs occasioned mystical experiences? In 2022, conversations about the connections between psychedelics, science and medicine, and spirituality are again top of mind, from Harvard and the academy to research hospitals and beyond. In this episode, Harvard Divinity School student Paul Gillis-Smith speaks to scholar J. Christian Greer about the impact of the “Marsh Chapel Miracle,” what role psychedelics might play in the future of religion, and why, he says, there's potential for great harm, but reasons to be hopeful, too.

Howard Washington Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. Thurman served as dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University from 1932 to 1944 and as dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University from 1953 to 1965. In 1944, he co-founded, along with Alfred Fisk, the first major interracial, interdenominational church in the United States. Episode Image Source: bu.edu

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Inklings of Faith.” Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel wrote and narrates a special Bach Experience entitled “Imago Dei: Bach and the Golden Rule." Musical selections from the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are performed by the Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium. The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Angels of God.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Hymn to the Eternal Flame” by Stephen Paulus, "Deep river" arr. by Roy Ringwald, and “Ain’t got time to die” by Hall Johnson, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Faith Before Daybreak.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Light Everlasting” by O. C. Christiansen and “Light of the world (from The Light of Life)” by Edward Elgar, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Faith in Flesh and Bone.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Magi videntes stellam” by Blasius Amon and “The three kings” by Jonathan Dove, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “The Gift of Faith.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Ach, Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding” by Heinrich Schütz and “Jesus Christ the apple tree” by Elizabeth Poston, along with service music and hymns.

TThe Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Echoes of Faith.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Dixit Maria” by Hans Leo Hassler and “O Maria, vernans rosa” by Jacobus Clemens non Papa, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “The Dawn of Faith.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk” by Heinrich Schütz, "Lo, how a rose e’er blooming" arr. by Blackell, and "E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come" by Paul O. Manz along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Cummings Neville, Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Have Courage.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “O frondens virga” by Drew Collins and "My song in the night" arr. by Paul Christiansen, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Helping.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Sedebit Dominus Rex” by James MacMillan and "Festival Te Deum" by Benjamin Britten, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Hope.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “O quam gloriosum” by Tomás Luis de Victoria and "O how glorious" by Basil Harwood, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Life.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” by Melchior Franck and "O clap your hands" by John Rutter, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Faith.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “My soul, there is a country” by C. Hubert H. Parry and "Bogoródyitse Dyévo (All-Night Vigil, Op. 37)" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Arts.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Jubilate Deo” by Richard Dering and "Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herrn" by Felix Mendelssohn, along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel,and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel jointly bring a sermon entitled “The Bach Experience.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services.

Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), comes on to talk about the famous “Good Friday Experiment”, an experiment run at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel by Walter Pahnke while at Harvard Divinity School. Rick also tells the story of his follow-up study more than two decades later, sharing all the factors that went into Pahnke’s attempts to study mystical experiences afforded by psilocybin and how the study participants reflected back on their experiences later in life. Please join the Center for the Study of World Religions on Wednesday, October 21st at 4pm for a panel featuring two psilocybin clinical trial participants in dialogue with the historian of religions Jeffrey J. Kripal (Rice University) exploring these contemporary psychedelic trials. Links: Pahnke’s dissertation Rick Doblin's undergraduate thesis following up on the experiment Howard Thurman’s Good Friday sermon preached during the experiment More from MAPS.org

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Grace.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11” by Gabriel Fauré and “Magnificat (Collegium Regale)” by Herbert Howells along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Breeze.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Ubi caritas, op. 10, no. 1” by Maurice Duruflé and “O how amiable” by Ralph Vaughan Williams along with service music and hymns.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean of Marsh Chapel, preaches a sermon entitled “Liberal Heart.” The remainder of the recording is a re-broadcast from previous services. The Marsh Chapel Choir sings “Bless the Lord, O my soul” by Carson P. Cooman and “Hear my prayer” by Moses Hogan along with service music and hymns.

In this episode, Joe interviews Jerry and Julie Brown. Jerry (Ph.D.) is an author and activist, who served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami for 42 years. Julie (M.A.) is an author and integrative psychotherapist, who worked with cancer patients with a focus on guided imagery. Together, they are co-authors of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity. They talk about their blogpost on Psychedelics Today and inspiring studies: Walter Pahnke’s original psilocybin study at Marsh Chapel and Roland Griffiths’ recent studies at Johns Hopkins and the amazing results at each, Robin Carhart-Harris’ MRI analysis, and some of Julie’s successes using guided imagery to empower 3 cancer clients to heal after conventional cancer treatment was ineffective. They talk about guided imagery and the body’s ability to heal itself, how mystical states actually help heal people, how disease starts in the mind, Ancient Greece’s psychedelic Rites of Eleusis, and their own personal life-changing psychedelic experiences related to Johns Hopkins’ 5 common elements of mystical experience. And they talk about their most popular book, The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, which highlights images of mushrooms and psychedelic art found throughout Christian history (all the way back to Gnostic Gospels), and their possible relationship to the birth of Christianity and the story of Jesus.  Notable Quotes “The questions are: Can psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy be used not only to alleviate the psychological anxiety (as we saw at Johns Hopkins) and the depression, but can it also be used to facilitate the physiological healing in cancer patients, as Julie has done through facilitating mystical experiences? That’s a big question. The second one is: in time, are we going to see what today, is long-term costly, clinical psychotherapy of a variety of different modalities, eventually be enhanced by short-term, much more affordable psychedelic psychotherapy?” -Jerry Brown “In astrophysics, dark matter, which they say makes up most of the universe- it can not be directly detected or seen. It can only be implied through the gravitational effects that it causes. So, in psychology, mystical experience cannot be easily accessed, but it can be reliably created both through psychedelics, and as Julie’s work has shown, through guided imagery. In other words, hidden from ordinary consciousness, mystical experience manifests from the dark matter of the mind to facilitate healing.” -Jerry Brown  “F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, said there’s no second acts in American lives, but fortunately, psychedelics is having its second act, and I think if we do it right this time, we can really integrate it into our culture, both in a therapeutic setting, and [also in settings] modeled after the Greek Eleusinian mysteries, where healthy people can go to explore psychedelics for personal growth and for spirituality and creativity.” -Jerry Brown Links Psychedelics Today blog: Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Insights from Guided-Imagery Therapy with Cancer Patients Website: psychedelicgospels.com Psychedelic Gospels Facebook The Psychedelic Gospels: Evidence of Entheogens in Christian Art presentation on Youtube Email About Jerry and Julie Brown Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, author, and activist. From 1972 to 2014, he served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught a course on “Hallucinogens and Culture.” Julie M. Brown, M.A., LMHC, is an integrative psychotherapist, who works with cancer patients. They are coauthors of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, 2016; “Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019; and “Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Insights from Guided Imagery Therapy with Cancer Patients,” Psychedelics Today, May 28, 2020. Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on Facebook or iTunes Share us with your friends Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics

The Rev. Victor Kazanjian is the Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative (URI), a global grassroots interfaith peacebuilding network of more than 1,000 multifaith groups working in over 100 countries to build bridges of cooperation between people of all beliefs and cultures. Defying the conventional wisdom that issues of poverty, conflict and violence are best engaged by organizations with a heavy central infrastructure, URI’s decentralized, network-based, light-framed, shared leadership, relational organizational approach is giving people around the world the power to meet their challenges and build cohesive, connected and peaceful communities. “Peace and justice begin at the grassroots,” Victor says. “Cooperation Circles are the heart and soul of this organization, the foundation upon which a sustainable movement towards peace and justice can be built. Ultimately this effort requires work at all levels of society – local and national governments, public sector institutions such as education and social service, the private sector, and transnational organizations like the United Nations. But … while we strive to be active in all levels of peacebuilding, at its core, URI is a grassroots network.” Victor is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and was trained as a community organizer working to address the systemic causes of poverty and injustice through the support of community-based groups. Prior to joining URI, Victor was an influential international voice addressing the spiritual lives of students, multicultural peacebuilding programs, and all manner of transformational education. He served as Dean of Intercultural Education & Religious and Spiritual Life and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College, where he “moved religious and spiritual life from the margins of the institution to a partner in implementing the college’s core educational goals” as well as invited “all people of all beliefs (theistic and non-theistic) to work together to build community at Wellesley.”  He also co-founded Education as Transformation Inc., an international organization that works on religious diversity and spirituality in higher education. Victor is an author, educator, recognized thought-leader and trainer in areas of intergroup dialogue, multicultural and interreligious understanding, conflict transformation, diversity and democracy, social justice, community organizing, and peacebuilding. He holds degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard University, and is visiting faculty at the Malaviya Center for Peace Research at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, where he served as Fulbright Professor of Peace and Justice Studies. “As a child, I grew up as one among many.  It was not unusual for me, when at my grandparents’ dinner table, to be surrounded by people of a wide variety of beliefs,” Victor described in a keynote address with Valarie Kaur to the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions. Victor’s grandfather, Harold Case, a progressive Methodist pluralist (before pluralism entered the interfaith lexicon), was Boston University’s president during Victor’s growing up years. President Case started an African Studies department at BU in 1953 and convinced Howard Thurman, the country’s first intentional interfaith minister, to leave San Francisco’s historic interfaith, interracial Church he’d helped found a decade earlier, to become Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University. Victor remembers that Dr. Thurman turned out to be “like a wonderful member of our family” during his childhood and, in the long run, “the most important spiritual influence in my life.” “These were the civil rights days in the United States, and dinner table conversations at my grandparents inevitably included updates from the front lines,” Victor recalls. “Only later in life did I realize that those conversations had included visits from Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and, most frequently and most significantly for my life, Howard Thurman, … whose friendship with my grandparents left an indelible imprint on my life and shaped my understanding of religion in ways that continue to unfold.” As Victor noted in his 2018 keynote to the Parliament of the World’s Religions, “There is no place for exclusivism in religion or politics or in our world.  It has arguably been the single greatest source of suffering throughout history.  Religious exclusivism – the belief that my truth is the only truth – violates the core spiritual tenets of all beliefs.  The claim of exclusive knowledge of the truth is, in a religions sense, idolatry, in a political sense extremism, and in psychological sense narcissism.  In all these cases, exclusivism leads to the dehumanization and exclusion, not to love and inclusion.” His deep childhood grounding in celebrating “one among many” has led Victor to study and embody deeply Gandhian principles of pluralism and grassroots change.  Along with Gandhi’s grandson, he for many years led the Gandhian Legacy Tour to India and taught a January term class on “Grassroots Development, Conflict Resolution, and the Gandhian Legacy in India” while at Wellesley College. He also had the unique opportunity to teach about Gandhian perspectives on Diversity and Democracy at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research at Benaras Hindu University while on a Fulbright.  Join us in conversation with this innovative, deeply committed, and transformational change agent!

Download In this unique episode, Joe brings Tom Hatsis and Dr. Jerry Brown together for a psychedelic debate. They go back in forth in conversation on whether there was psychedelic use in medieval or ancient Christianity and if so, was there a secret tradition of including art of mushrooms or psychedelic substances in cathedrals and castles. 3 Key Points: Jerry Brown makes the claim that there is evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture. Tom Hatsis makes the claim that Christianity is not hiding a giant secret inside the biblical texts about the true hallucinogen at the root of the religion being an Amanita Muscaria. Jerry and Tom debate back and forth, pulling from art and textual evidence (and lack thereof) to support or deny the claim that Psychedelic Mushrooms are the root of Christian religion. Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on iTunes Share us with your friends – favorite podcast, etc Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics Show Notes Jerry B. Brown PhD. Anthropologist, Author and Activist Served as the Prof of Anthropology at FIU in Miami He designed and taught a course on hallucinogens and culture He is the Co-Author of Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on Entheogen use in Early Christian Ritual The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity Tom Hatsis Author, Public Speaker, Roller Derby Player and Potion Maker He is the Author of three books in Psychedelia; The Witches Ointment: the Secret History of Psychedelic Magic Psychedelic Mystery Traditions; Spirit Plants, Magical Practices and Psychedelic States Microdosing Magic: A Psychedelic Spellbook Partnered with event organizer and short film maker, Eden Woodruff, who runs Psanctum Psychedelia in Portland in the process of winning the Guinness Book of World Record in Magic Intro The debate is around the early Christian use of psychedelics and mushrooms in Christian art The conversation is on the validity on whether or not psychedelics were used in early Christianity Dr. Jerry Brown on Psychedelics in Christianity The Miracle of Marsh Chapel - a double-blind experiment conducted by Walter Pahnky in 1962 where 20 students were divided into two groups, half received niacin and the other half received psilocybin 9 out of 10 who took psilocybin had a profound psychedelic experience Brown explains that this is an important part in the entire history of psychedelics After discovering the Amanita Muscaria mushroom (confirmed by Paul Stamets) in a 15th Century Church in Scotland, he realized that there were many entheogenic images in Christian art He says that most church historians do not have training in mycology to recognize entheogens and mushrooms He brings up an image of Adam and Eve standing next to a large Amanita Muscaria mushroom He went to a Parish Church and saw an image of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a Donkey, and one of the youths welcoming Jesus is holding a long mushroom cap He went to churches in England, Germany and France In the drawing of Genesis, he saw God creating plants (psilocybin mushrooms) "When you go back beyond the 3rd century, there are no visual images or Christian art due to poverty and persecution" - Jerry Jerry reads a passage, “Jesus said to his disciples, “compare me to someone and tell me who I am like” Thomas said to him, “Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like.” Jesus said “I am not your master, because you have drunk you have become intoxicated from the bubbling wellspring that I have personally measured out. He who will drink from my mouth will become like me, I shall become like he, and the things that are hidden, should be revealed to him.” He interprets the passage as a reference to drinking a psychoactive mushroom substance Jerry goes on to explain that Jesus realized his feeling of eternal life through the use of psychoactive entheogens He says that this is not a means of dismissing Christianity, but instead to reintroduce Christianity with its original roots Tom Hatsis on Psychedelics in Christianity Tom says that Jerry makes a lot of assertions, but does not present any evidence. He talks about art, but not anything in scripture Tom is curious why the only artwork that Jerry brings his assertions about mushrooms are from a time where we can’t ask them about it Tom brings up Julie and Jerry’s book and that the first chapter has nothing to do with Christian History at all Tom uses an example of stone mushrooms. Someone doing a cross cultural analysis, might agree that they are mushrooms based on the other findings of cannabis and opioids But, as a historian, Tom looks for evidence and in this case, there are eye witness accounts of its use He brings up the example, the infamous plaincourault fresco of Adam and Eve at the tree of good and evil with the forbidden fruit Using this one example, he wants to prove how critical historical methodology is used to prove unsubstantiated claims on Christian art as wrong Tom urges listeners to view the unaltered versions of the plaincourault fresco at Georgio Samorini’s Flikr page  The paradise tree is a mix of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and a symbol of Christ's victory over Adam’s transgression. In the play, it was tradition to place small Eucharist wafers on the tree branches so that’s what the white dots are on the tree branches The tree's shape is not a mushroom cap, it is a parasol of victory Jerry’s Rebuttle Jerry says that the absence of evidence, is not equal, or proof of evidence of absence (just because it’s not written in text, doesn't mean that its not there in the art) Jerry’s issue with the fresco is that “The Fall” is a New Testament creation, not all the way back in Genesis He says that on their website, they do not ‘alter’ the image, they ‘enhance’ it He says that Tom claims the fruit doesn't matter, but the fruit does matter (it could be a psychedelic mushroom) He touches on the skeletal appearance of Eve and the meaning of renewal of life Jerry thinks this image is the beginning of the religious experience and symbolism that the soul is immortal and will continue to exist after death He says the serpent is not a depiction of evil entering Eden, but instead a source of knowledge and a spiritual guide to the feminine to help bring man into higher awareness Tom’s Rebuttle Tom says he didn't hear any evidence from Jerry, he heard arguments to authority He says that Jerry uses anthropology to uncover history, and opinions of art historians, but medieval historians agree that the mushroom is not present in Christian art He also says he did agree with Jerry about the mushroom in art, but that was last year and he has proven himself wrong and that the mushroom caps are parasols of victory Jerry says that Amanita Muscaria was in the Soma, but Tom says cannabis was, and mushrooms were not Chris Bennett's book on Soma There is zero evidence for mushroom art during medieval times In Jerry’s book, he writes about the Basilica di Aquilea, saying that they are Amanita Muscaria, but Tom says they are not that type of mushroom           Tom also says that in the play depicted in the plaincourault, that the script literally says the wafers are hung on the tree, and that the little white dots are not the dots from an Amanita Muscaria Jerry’s Closing Remarks He says that this isn't just cultural analysis, this is about fieldwork and looking at how native people view this artwork The problem he has with Tom and Church historians is that it is not taking evidence from Ethnobotanists Jerry says he believes that there is a long tradition of entheogenic mushrooms in Christian art and would like this debate to continue Tom’s Closing Remarks Tom says he still isn't hearing evidence, he is only hearing assertions and argument to authority and eminent scholars Tom says that Genesis doesn't matter in the plaincourault, because we know that it's about the play He has multiple articles debunking these images on his website Carl Sagan’s Bologna Detection Kit - which shows how to spot fake conspiracies Tom says the holy mushroom hypothesis fails against all the claims Jerry has made Links Tom's Website Jerry's Website Check out our online course, "Introduction to Psychedelics" About Jerry Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, author and activist. From 1972-2014, he served as Founding Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where he designed and taught a course on “Hallucinogens and Culture.” The course examines the use of psychoactive plants by tribal and classical cultures, including Ancient India and Greece, and by and discusses the discoveries of the modern mind-explorers, the “psychonauts of the twentieth century.” About Tom Thomas Hatsis is an author, lecturer, and historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia. In his spare time he visits rare archives, slings elixirs, and coaches roller derby.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-fifth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-fifth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-fourth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-fourth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

On this episode, we suspend the historical timeline to analyze the Smith-Entheogen theory along with host of Psilly Rabbits Podcast, Cody Noconi. Before that, we talk to Dan Wees of the Book of Mormon Comparative to get an update on his project. Then we move into reading part 1 of the Sunstone paper titled Revelation Through Hallucination, a discourse on the Smith-entheogen theory. We end with the final installment of the Patreon Pledge drive, issuing a call to arms for those listeners located in Utah. Don’t miss Sunstone and the live My Book of Mormon show in SLC at Squatter’s pub on July 29th, 2017! Links: Smith-Entheogen theory http://realbookofmormon.org/smithentheogentheory Good Friday Experiment “Miracle at Marsh Chapel” http://www.maps.org/news/multimedia-library/138-1962-good-friday-experiment MAPS Follow-up to Good Friday Experiment http://www.maps.org/other-psychedelic-research/213-psilocybin-research/psilocybin-studies-completed/5508-the-good-friday-experiment-follow-up Erowid Plant and Root Database https://www.erowid.org/ Plants of the Gods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZmjpK6KYqI http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378208.Plants_of_the_Gods GET YOUR TICKETS FOR SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUM!!! https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/ Come to church with Marie Kent and I at the JS Memorial Building! https://www.lds.org/maps/meetinghouses/@40.769715,-111.892079,17&lang=eng&id=meetinghouse:5336082-01-08 Show links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com Twitter @NakedMormonism Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Naked-Mormonism/370003839816311 Patreon http://patreon.com/nakedmormonism Music by Jason Comeau http://aloststateofmind.com/ Show Artwork http://weirdmormonshit.com/ Legal Counsel http://patorrez.com/ Voicemail Line (864)Nake-dMo (625-3366)

Boston Confucianism, which argues for the applicability of Confucian values globally, rather than just in East Asia, is an intellectual movement pioneered by Dr. Robert Neville (former Dean of Marsh Chapel and the School of Theology; currently a professor of Philosophy, Religion and Theology at BU). Here, we discuss the inception of Boston Confucianism and the many potential points of contact between Confucianism and the west.

Easter Weekend brought community members, students, and faculty to Marsh Chapel. But Marsh can expect to host an entirely new cast of characters...This Friday, the BU Inner Strength Gospel Choir has their concert, "In The Light of the Able God" at 7:30 pm.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-third annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-third annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-second annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-second annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-first annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its forty-first annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

The Reverend Craig Thomas Robinson, Jr is the proud pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a dynamic community of faith located in the village of Bay Shore, New York. Bethel Church was founded in 1865 and remains a beacon of hope and healing for the residents of Bay Shore and Long Island. Reverend Robinson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Morehouse College and earned the Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Yale Divinity School. Upon completion of his Master of Divinity degree, in 2011, He was awarded two prizes in the area of preaching: The Charles S. Mersick Prize “for effective public address, especially in preaching,” and the Oliver Elsworth Daggett Prize “for ability, diligence, Christian character and promise of usefulness as a preacher.” He has also published in the African American Pulpit journal and the African American Lectionary online. Reverend Robinson’s second master’s, the Master of Sacred Theology, was an exploration into the life and legacy of Howard Washington Thurman. His thesis examined the prophetic edges of Thurman’s pastoral ministries at the Fellowship Church of All Peoples in San Francisco, California and his tenure as dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University to the end of showing the indelible mark Thurman left on the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement. In between Reverend Robinson’s pursuit of a professional education, he spent two years as a Lilly-Endowed Transition into Ministry Fellow which allowed him to serve as a Pastoral Resident at the Historic Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He also served as an instructor in AME Liturgy and Hymnody for the New England Annual Conference Ministerial Training Institute.

Marsh Chapel presents its fortieth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its fortieth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its thirty-ninth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its thirty-ninth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Summary of today's show: Msgr. John McLaughlin has seen a wide variety assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese: urban parish, suburban parish, a parish that includes the New England Patriots, first vocation director for the Archdiocese of the Military Services, now priest-chaplain for campus ministry at Boston University, and the first new monsignor the Archdiocese of Boston has seen in years. Msgr. McLaughlin joins Scot Landry and his old friend Fr. Chris O'Connor for a laughter-filled hour in which the monsignor tells his fascinating story of ministry to young people that took so many different forms. Listen to the show: Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor Today's guest(s): Msgr. John McLaughlin Links from today's show: Today's topics: Priest Profile: Msgr. John McLaughlin 1st segment: Scot welcomed everyone and discussed preparing for Independence Day and the final day of the Fortnight for Freedom. Scot said to Fr. Chris that last weekend we had an ordination of a man to the transitional diaconate. Fr. Chris said Deacon Tom McDonald was ordained at St. John Seminary. He's been studying in Rome and just came back. He now declares ordination season is over until September when they will ordain some permanent deacons. Fr. Chris said Tom wanted to be ordained here now instead of in St. Peter's in Rome in October mainly so that more of his family and friends could attend. Other men have made the same decision for similar reasons. They also have an another summer in order to carry out the duties of deacons, baptizing, marrying, and their other roles. Deacon Tom has been assigned to St. Paul's in Cambridge for the summer. Today's guest is Msgr. John McLaughlin, who was a military chaplain last year until returning to Boston to become chaplain at Boston University's Catholic Center. 2nd segment: Scot noted that Msgr. McLaughlin wants to be called Father. He asked about his background. He grew up in St. Anthony's parish in Woburn and when he was ordained he was the sixth man from that parish in six years and three of them were ordained at the same time. Fr. John thinks it was a coincidence that three were all together. He said Woburn is a good, close, faith-filled community that produces many vocations. He was about 30 years old when he started thinking about the priesthood. He had worked for 10 years after graduating Boston College. He was also coaching Woburn high school wrestling when a car accident killed some of his young men and injured to hers, working with them made him look at life a different way. He also traveled to Medjugorje with one of the men. He went there in 1989 for the first time.(It was reported that children were seeing the Blessed Mother.) There were 250,000 were in the little Bosnian village of about 3,000, where people prayed and sang about their faith very openly. It made him re-think his life. Later, after his second trip in 1990, he went to talk to the vocations director. Scot asked if it was a surprise to him that God might be calling him to the priesthood. Before the accident Fr. John never would have thought about it and it was a surprise to friends, family, and co-workers too. Scot asked how it was returning to college after 10 years out. Fr. John said the most difficult adjustment was moving out of his own house into a small room without a phone or a bathroom of his own. Fr. John said their class was about 18 ordained together, plus another 30 from other dioceses. He said they had a lot of fun. Scot said the class of 1995 was the largest in a lot of time. Fr. John said after ordination he went to St. Clements in Somerville for 5 years and then after that to St. Mary's in Foxboro, which was so different. He was there for 5 years. While he was there he started LifeTeen there. They had 1,800 kids in religious education. Scot asked what it was like on Patriots Sundays in the fall. Fr. John said they had very large 4pm crowds. The Patriots won three Super Bowls while Fr. John was there. He also blessed the stadium 10 times and the Patriots never lost when he blessed the stadium. Fr. Chris said he once celebrated Mass for a visiting team. Fr. John then moved to St. Monica in Methuen for three years as pastor. It went very well. It's a very large parish. They started LifeTeen there as well, and they have one seminarian from that who will be ordained next year. Fr. John said when you go to a parish, you don't often see teens, although you see all other ages. He'd learned about LifeTeen and recognizing that there wasn't a lot in the Church to bring in teens, he wanted to do that. It's not perfect, but it is Eucharist-centered. The results were phenomenal. The kids loved coming. Scot asked if LifeTeen is a lot of work for the pastor and parish. Fr. John said it's a lot of work and there is a financial aspect as well. There's an evening Mass on Sunday plus the Life Night after. There's a need for good music for the kids with a particular kind of band. From parish ministry, Fr. John was assigned to the Archdiocese of Military Services. Fr. John recalled getting a call one night asking him if he wanted to be the vocations director for the Archdiocese of the Military. He wasn't sure at first about leaving St. Monica's so early. Later on he found out that Cardinal O'Brien who was Archbishop for the Military Services had known Fr. John in Rome and recommended him. Archbishop Broglio, he followed Archbishop O'Brien, eventually signed him up for the job. Fr. John said he went to Washington, DC, where he had to figure out what to do as the first vocation director of the military. The archdiocese of the military is all over the world, so he relied heavily on the chaplains of the different military services. They understood that they had to be proactive in finding replacements for themselves in the priesthood. Fr. John said there was a great fraternity among chaplains. Boston has always ranked among the top three dioceses in giving chaplains to the military. He said spent a lot of time getting to know all the chaplains on retreats or convocations. Scot pointed out that Fr. John wasn't in the military but was working for the military archdiocese. Scot asked if there seems to be an affinity for the priesthood among particular services. Fr. John said he was never in the military so he didn't focus on one more than the others. He did note that the Marine Corps has more Catholics than any other branch, but overall the seminarians were spread out among the branches. He once did an interview with EWTN on the Fourth of July. He got a call the next day from a young Marine, a Major helicopter pilot stationed in Cherry Point, N.C. The man had some doubts, but Fr. John pointed out that he was already living and acting in a priestly way. He told the man that he was acting like he couldn't handle the truth. The major called him back in the middle of the night and agreed. He was the first man he recruited. Fr. Chris asked what the Archdiocese of the Military is. Fr. John said it's like the pastoral center in Boston: It takes care of the records of sacraments, it has a tribunal, takes care of the canonical and sacramental needs of chaplains. Archbishop Broglio traveled the world for confirmations and the like. He was archbishop for Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. Scot said in the military service Fr. John wasn't recruiting men to become military chaplains, but to help dioceses get new seminarians because he had access to so may young men who could have vocations. Fr. John said it started because a study showed that 10 percent of the men in the seminaries had military experience so they thought there might be more. The Military Archdiocese doesn't have priests itself. They are all lended from dioceses. If the men he recruited want to be chaplains, they would be co-sponsored–each diocese paying half–and after ordination they would be in the diocese for three to five years and then go to the chaplains, where they could serve up to 25 years. Fr. John said he always tried to keep the men in the dioceses where they were from in order to be closely connected to their family and friends for life. But there are men who come from military families who have no home, so he worked with them to find a bishop who was open to the chaplains corp. He said they brought in 40 vocations over three years, including a couple into religious orders. They were able to send a seminarian to the Capuchins and one to Boston. He did that for three years and then came back to Boston to become campus minister at Boston University. He had been expecting to come back as a pastor. As a Boston College grad, he thought it was a joke at first. But the kids are great, a wonderful group of young people. Fr. John said he hasn't had any kids from his old parishes at BU yet. As the priest-chaplain at BU, there's no real typical day, especially when working with young people. There are money problems, family problems, problems with roommates, etc. He celebrates Mass and hears many confessions. They run five retreats per year, including two graduate retreats. They have Fellowship of Catholic University Students who run Bible studies. FOCUS are young people who are missionaries who come to campus to reach out to other young Catholics and teach them the faith, so when they go out they can instruct others. Scot recommended listeners to listen to last Wednesday's show on FOCUS. Scot said last year the campus ministry team at BU turned over completely. Mother Olga had been there several years and the Brotherhood of Hope even longer. Fr. John said it was a difficult change for the students and for him, especially since he's not done college ministry. He has to do fundraising for the program now. Also, the students are up very late every night, past midnight, and doesn't usually get to bed past 1 or 2am. He lives in East Boston at Sacred Heart Parish with Fr. Wayne Belschner. They have three Masses on Sundays, 12 noon, 6pm, and 10pm. He likes being with young people filled with hope with a positive outlook on life. It's exciting to be with them at this time as they prepare for life. Scot asked what it's like being a priest at a secular college in the city. BU is the fourth largest private school in the country and is 40% Catholic. They have 30,000 or 40,000 students total. Cardinal Seán calls it the largest Catholic school in Boston. Fr. John said they have a lot of weddings of graduates who come back to Marsh Chapel. Fr. Chris filled in for Fr. John at a wedding last weekend. Fr. John said they are grateful to be able to use Marsh Chapel, which was a Methodist chapel, and Boston University lets them have Mass there. The Catholic Center is a four-story brownstone owned by the Archdiocese of Boston on Granby Street. For Mass on weekends, they see 700 to 1,000 students. They have anywhere from 30 to a few hundred people in the building daily. They do spaghetti suppers on Tuesday open for anyone on campus where they feed several hundred. After the supper they do something called Spirit Night Live. Other times in the week they have adoration that is well attended. Scot asked what activities besides Mass helps the kids go deeper in their faith. Fr. John said Adoration is very powerful in the kids and the students are serious about. They also get 90+ at the retreats and they plan it all themselves. Fr. John congratulated Camille, one of his interns, on getting engaged to Danny Menardi and they will be married next year. They have also had two BU alum ordained in recent years and there are several alums in the seminary right now. Scot asked Fr. John for his hopes as he goes into his second year. Fr. John said they are looking at a new retreat site, Camp Fatima in Gilhmanton, NH, which they hope will give them some new opportunities. They will do the undergrad and grad retreats at the same time there while keeping them separate. They will also be purchasing breviaries – if anyone would like to contribute to Catholic Center, 211 Bay State Road, Boston, MA for the breviaries–for use by the students. They plan to start doing the Liturgy of the Hours with the students during the school year. Scot suggested that people could support the work of the Catholic Center, which gets only about half its budget from the Catholic Appeal.

Marsh Chapel presents its thirty-eighth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

Marsh Chapel presents its thirty-eighth annual Service of Lessons and Carols.

The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel preach a sermon entitled "Bach and Harmony." The Marsh Chapel Choir sings Cantata BWV 131 "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Lass', o Herr, mich Hülfe finden, Op. 96, no. 1" by Felix Mendelssohn along with service music and hymns.

The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel preach a sermon entitled "Bach and Harmony." The Marsh Chapel Choir sings Cantata BWV 131 "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Lass', o Herr, mich Hülfe finden, Op. 96, no. 1" by Felix Mendelssohn along with service music and hymns.

The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel preach a sermon entitled "Bach and Harmony." The Marsh Chapel Choir sings Cantata BWV 131 "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Lass', o Herr, mich Hülfe finden, Op. 96, no. 1" by Felix Mendelssohn along with service music and hymns.

The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Music at Marsh Chapel preach a sermon entitled "Bach and Harmony." The Marsh Chapel Choir sings Cantata BWV 131 "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Lass', o Herr, mich Hülfe finden, Op. 96, no. 1" by Felix Mendelssohn along with service music and hymns.