Treatise on Soma Hymns of Rigveda

Treatise on Soma Hymns of Rigveda
Author: Dmitri Semenov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 057823212X

New interpretation from adhyatma perspective and translation of all hymns to Soma in Rigveda. Sanskrit original and English translation are given in parallel.

Expanding Mindscapes

Expanding Mindscapes
Author: Erika Dyck
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0262376903

The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century. The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits. Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Sacrifice-Sudra

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Sacrifice-Sudra
Author: James Hastings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 944
Release: 1920
Genre: Ethics
ISBN:

Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1116
Release: 1911
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.