Ep. 590 – Sacramental Medicine with David Silver

Exploring psychedelics as sacramental medicine, Mindrolling comrades David Silver and Raghu Markus discuss William Richards' book, Sacred Knowledge.

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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and David ponder through:

• The relationship between psychedelics and religious experiences 
• The tale of Ram Dass, Neem Karoli Baba, and LSD
• Responsible use of psychedelics for reliability and potency 
• David’s experience with peyote shamans in South Dakota
• Finding out the ground of our own beings 
• Viewing everything as God and everything as equally remarkable 
• How spiritual awakenings are often initially nurtured through a psychedelic substance 
• Considering set, setting, and our intentions before ingesting any entheogen
• Complete unity as Raghu’s first memory of a psychedelic experience

Check out the book referenced throughout this episode: Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences 

About David Silver:

David Silver is the former co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He is a filmmaker and director, most recently coming out with Brilliant Disguise. Brilliant Disguise tells the unique story of a group of inspired Western spiritual seekers from the 60s, who in meeting the great American teacher, Ram Dass, followed him to India to meet his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly known as Maharaj-ji. Two days before he left his body, Maharaj-ji instructed K.C. Tewari to take care of the Westerners, which he did resolutely until the day he died in 1997. Silver’s #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners film, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic movie about history’s most famous band. The term ‘rockumentary’ was first applied to this two-hour movie. Rolling Stone recently described the film as a “masterwork.” Silver’s Warner Brothers’ feature film, “No Nukes” also started the whole trend of music/activism feature documentaries.

“When you take these substances, you must have the right atmosphere, the right people with you, the right reason for doing it. These things have to be thought very carefully about.” – David Silver

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