Through the perspective of having grown up among HinJews in the Ram Dass community and cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York\'s Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and finding intersectionality between the Jewish and Psychedelic experience.
This book is for anyone looking to feel spiritually kindled, to make peace with where they come from, and to reconcile seemingly disparate experiences of spirituality and psychedelics, with traditional religion..
In doing so, she looks at solutions to our lack of presence and offers practices that help us integrate our Psychedelic experiences in mundane life, as well as in the context of our roots and religious identities.
Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and Psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the experience with expert reportage, Madison Margolin prods at Be Here Now to find its relevance and utility in a new generation, facing different issues than those Ram Dass faced as a generally well-to-do boomer.
It\'s a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic.
Exile and Ecstasy sets out to explore the Psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Hasidism.
Through the perspective of having grown up among HinJews in the Ram Dass community and cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York\'s Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and finding intersectionality between the Jewish and Psychedelic experience
