Foundational Texts
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “The State of Jewish Belief” in Commentary Magazine, August 1st, 1966
Itzik Lodzer (Rabbi Arthur Green), “Notes from the Jewish Underground: Psychedelics and Kabbalah,” Response, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1968): 9-21
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “The Ba’al Shem Tov’s Aliyath Han’shama and the LSD Experience,” Summer 1963, originally edited and published in Ralph Metzner’s The Ecstatic Adventure, 1968
Books
Ka-tzetnik 135633 (Yehiel De-Nur), Shivitti: A Vision, 1999
Melila Hellner-Eshed, A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar, 2009
Jonathan Garb, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah, 2011
Dr. Rick Strassman, DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, 2014
Shahar Arzy & Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences, 2015
Daniel Reiser, Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism, 2018
Articles
Rabbi Menachem Brayer, “LSD: A Jewish View,” from Tradition, Summer 1968
Dr. Eliezer Berkovitz, “Instant Mysticism and Chemical Religion,” from Judaism and Drugs, 1974
Roland Griffiths, et al., “Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.” 2006
Rabbi Jay Michaelson, “Ayahuasca and Kabbalah,” January 2008
Benny Shannon, “Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis,” 2013
Rabbi Arthur Green, interviewed by Jayne K. Guberman, “Jewish Counterculture Oral History Project,” August 5, 2016
Shalom Goldman, “LSD and the Rabbis” from Sacred Matters, August 14, 2014 Part 1: Part 2: Part 3 (not found)
Madison Margolin, “Marijuana Has Always Been A Part Of Jewish Life From Ancient Israel To The Shtetl,” Forward, November 2017
Dr. James Cooke, “Psychedelics and Judaism,” Reality Sandwich, December 2020
Moran Sharir, “The Dutch Psychiatrist Who Treated Traumatized Holocaust Survivors With LSD,” Haaretz (English), March 2020
Eran Arie, et al., “Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad,” 2020
Morgan Shipley, “Psychedelic Judaism in a Countercultural America,” in Jewish Radicalisms, 2021
Christopher Schilling, “The Case Against Psychedelic Judaism,” from Zen Judaism: The Case Against a Contemporary American Phenomenon, 2021