Rave Culture and Religion

Group solidarity is paramount. As one Huichol shaman put it: ‘all must be of one heart, there must be complete unity among us’ ( ...

peyote with a plumed wand, or muviéri, and then distributes the peyote to the pilgrims seated about the fire: Everyone eats his ...

In Wirikúta, according to Huichol mythology, divisions dissolve between sexes and ages, leaders and led, men and animals, plants ...

These latter plants are rich in the N, N-dimethyltryptamine or DMT— another of the archetypal psychedelics (Peyton and Shulgin 1 ...

The voices rose and fell, the thumping approached and receded, over and over, from light to darkness and back again into the red ...

The Barasana yajé ritual described by Reichel-Dolmatoff has a number of similarities to Huichol peyote ritualism. Ritual adornme ...

preliminary shared meal. Eboga was also eaten in the afternoon, a séance was performed, and a spirit curse was ‘lifted’ from an ...

As the process of the engosie moves towards its conclusion it becomes apparent that the membership has achieved an accentuation ...

technique for altering consciousness—serving to radically disrupt both cultural and physiological habits. The transformation of ...

of day and night are given human meaning through ritual. The emphasis on ritual expression through space at doofs is quite disti ...

a ‘techno anthem’ may contain explicit instances of prayer, as for example the track ‘Halleluja’ (Sash! 2000), which incorporate ...

‘far from being a frenetic orgy’; the movements of dancers become an expression of unity. Participants may end up dancing synchr ...

is referred to by some doofers as ‘candy-flipping’—a practice also associated with mainstream raves (Saunders and Doblin 1996)—a ...

perverse nature of psychedelic sociality. Sam Keen has suggested that ‘LSD, DMT, and mescaline’ may give rise to a ‘Dionysian co ...

Entheogen[ic] was proposed as a name for a subclass of psychotropic or psychoactive plants (and, by extension, their active prin ...

11 Elsewhere (Tramacchi 2001) I have discussed discontinuities between the symbolic expression of Western psychedelic dance part ...

(1982) Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Fischer, Roland ...

Peyton, Jacob, III, and Alexander T.Shulgin (1994) ‘Structure-activity relationship of the classic hallucinogens and their analo ...

Valadez, M. and S.Valadez (1992) Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals, Oakland, CA: Amber Lotus. van Gennep, Arnold (1909) The Rites of ...

7 The ‘natural high’ Altered states, flashbacks and neural tuning at raves^1 Melanie Takahashi Since its emergence in the late 1 ...