Consciousness, Religion, and Gurus: Pitfalls of Psychedelic Medicine

Religion and Medicine

Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications.

In the fourth and final article of this religion and medicine series, I summarize the results of a comprehensive and systematic review of research examining religion's relationship to physical health and mortality. This review focuses on pain and disability, cardiovascular disease, immune and neuroendocrine function, susceptibility to infection, cancer, and overall mortality. I also explore wha...

Psychedelic medicine: a re-emerging therapeutic paradigm.

Religion in Organized Medicine: The AMA's Committee and Department of Medicine and Religion, 1961-1974.

The history commonly told of the relationship between modern medicine and religion is one of steady, even inevitable, separation rooted in the Enlightenment. The divorce between medicine and religion, it is thought, had become nearly total before a recent surge of interest in the spiritual and religious dimensions of health care. This narrative, however, misjudges a persistent sense of spiritua...

Religion and medicine II: religion, mental health, and related behaviors.

In this second in a series of articles on religion and medicine, I focus on the relationship between religion and mental health. This discussion is based on a comprehensive and systematic review of a century of research examining religion's relationship to mental health, social support, substance abuse, and other behaviors affecting mental or social functioning. This review includes over 630 se...