Peyote: The Divine Cactus.Edward F. Anderson

the problem of divine hiddenness

این رساله به مساله احتجاب الهی و مشکلات برهان مبتنی بر این مساله میپردازد. مساله احتجاب الهی مساله ای به قدمت ادیان است که به طور خاصی در مورد ادیان ابراهیمی اهمیت پیدا میکند. در ادیان ابراهیمی با توجه به تعالی خداوند و در عین حال خالقیت و حضور او و سخن گفتن و ارتباط شهودی او با بعضی از انسانهای ساکن زمین مساله ای پدید میاید با پرسشهایی از قبیل اینکه چرا ارتباط مستقیم ویا حداقل ارتباط وافی به ب...

Statement on Peyote.

In connection with the current national campaign against narcotics, there has been some propaganda to declare illegal the peyote used by many Indian tribes. We are professional anthropologists who have made extensive studies of Peyotism in various tribes. We have participated in the rites and partaken of the sacramental peyote. We therefore feel it our duty to protest against a campaign which o...

Biosynthesis of Phenolic Tetrahydroisoquinoline Alkaloids of Peyote’

THOUGH in uivo investigations of the biosynthesis of mescaline in peyote (Lophophoru williamsii (Lem.) Coult.) are relatively complete,*-‘0 reports on the biosynthesis of the isoquinoline alkaloids are less so. Battersby et al. l1 have reported the incorporation of tyrosine into pellotine, lophophorine and anhalonidine. Further, they demonstrated that dopamine was incorporated into pellotine an...

The Multiverse and Divine Creation

I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. If God necessarily actualizes the multiverse, we have no idea which universes ar...

Peace and the Divine Warrior