{"id":3572,"date":"2006-06-15T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T03:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/15\/entheogen.html"},"modified":"2006-06-15T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T03:15:22","slug":"entheogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/15\/entheogen\/","title":{"rendered":"entheogen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Wikipedia, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entheogen\">entheogen<\/a> is \"a psychoactive substance [.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.] that occasions enlightening spiritual or mystical experience.\" Specifically:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a strict sense, only those vision-producing drugs that can be shown to have figured in shamanic or religious rites would be designated entheogens, but in a looser sense, the term could also be applied to other drugs, both natural and artificial, that induce alterations of consciousness similar to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional entheogens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The term was \"coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology (Carl A. P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson).\"  Apparently it was intended as a more positive-connotation replacement for the terms \"hallucinogen\" and \"psychedelic.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, an entheogen is &#8220;a psychoactive substance [.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.] that occasions enlightening spiritual or mystical experience.&#8221; Specifically: In a strict sense, only those vision-producing drugs that can be shown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}