Zig Zag ZEN

Allan Badiner served as the editor in the first and second editions of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Chronicle Books, 2002; Synergetic Press, 2015), and Alex Grey served as art editor. Allan also edited two other books of collected essays, Dharma Gaia: A Harvest in Buddhism and Ecology (Parallax Press, 1990) and Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax, 2002). He is a contributing editor of Tricycle magazine, and serves on the board of directors of Project CBD. He has been a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh for more than 25 years. Alex Grey is a renowned American visionary artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art. His work spans a variety of forms including performance art, sculpture and painting. He is a member of the Integral Institute, on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics and is Chair of Wisdom University’s Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappinger, New York. Alex Grey served as art editor and a contributor to Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics, as well as releasing several other inspirational books featuring his visionary visual and verbal messages.

ACKNOWLE DGEMENTS

FOREWORD Stephen Batchelor

PREFACE Huston Smith

INTRODUCTION Allan Badiner

 

Section One: INTERSECTION

 

THE PLANT MEDICINE SUTRA Robert Schrei

A NEW LOOK AT THE PSYCHEDELIC TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Ralph Metzner

MYSTICISM: Contemplative and Chemical Roger Walsh

DISSOLVING THE ROOTS OF SUFFERING Dokushô Villalba

A HIGH HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA Rick Fields

PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: DISCUSSION WITH JACK KORNFIELD Robert Forte

BUDDHISM, SHAMANISM, AND THANGK A PAINTINGS Claudia Müller-Eberling

and Christian Rätsch

A BUDDHIST-PSYCHEDELIC HISTORY OF ESALEN INSTITUTE–INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MURPHY AND GEORGE LEONARD Allan Badiner

SHADOW PATHS Peter Matthiessen

A SURVE Y OF THE ENTHEOGENS Robert Jesse

 

Section Two: CONCRESCENCE?

 

VAJRAVISION Alex Grey

DMT DHARMA Rick J. Strassman, MD

PSYCHOACTIVISM David Chadwick

LE ANING INTO RAWNESS Trudy Walter

RELATIVE TRUTH Brigid Meier

YAGÉ AND THE YANAS Allan Badiner

JUNGLE DHARMA: THE INTERWEAVING OF BUDDHISM AND AYAHUASCA David Coyote

BUDDHIST HARM REDUCTION AND CANNABIS Jana Drakka

A TRIP NOT TAKEN China Galland

THE PAISLEY GATE Erik Davis

 

Section Three: LESSONS

 

PSYCHE DELICS ON THE PATH: HELP OR HINDRANCE? Charles T. Tart

BUDDHISM AND THE PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY–INTERVIEW WITH TERENCE MCKENNA Allan Badiner

LIBERTY AND LSD John Perry Barlow

RICK DOBLIN Interviewed by Allan Badiner

WAKING YOURSELF Brad Warner

THE ZEN COMMANDMENTS Lama Surya Das

ON THE FRONT LINES Interview with Michele McDonald

DO WE STILL NEED PSYCHEDELICS? Myron Stolaroff

BUDDHISM AND PSYCHEDELICS: A Public Dialogue with James Fadiman and Kokyo Henkel

A ROUNDTABLE WITH RAM DASS, ROBERT AITKEN ROSHI, RICHARD BAKER ROSHI, AND JOAN HALIFAX ROSHI Allan Badiner

 

CONTRIBUTORS

ARTWORK CRE DITS

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