Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

photo: Alan S. Weiner for The New York Times

“It was a whole personality shift for me. I wasn’t any longer attached to my performance and trying to control things. I could see that the really good things in life will happen if you just show up and share your natural enthusiasms with people.” CLARK MARTIN, a retired psychologist, on his participation in an experiment with a hallucinogen.

New York Times

By JOHN TIERNEY

Published: April 11, 2010

"As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him. So did the antidepressant pills he tried.

"Nothing had any lasting effect until, at the age of 65, he had his first psychedelic experience. "

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The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion

The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion
By Joseph Bulbulia
Professor of Religious Studies, Victoria University P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
Published in
Biology and Philosophy 19: 655–686, 2004.
© 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.

Here is a link to the file online. It is a PDF you can download.
Bulbulia has written some interesting things on this subject.