TOM RIEDLINGER, a mental health counselor and therapist, has written and
lectured extensively on entheogenic plants and the psychology of religion
with an emphasis on mystical experience. A Fellow of the Linnean Society
of London and former Associate in Ethnomycology at Harvard Botanical
Museum, Tom holds a degree in psychology from Northwestern University and
in world religions from Harvard University. His published works include
The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson and chapters in
Hallucinogens: A Reader (edited by Charles S. Grob), Entheogens and the
Future of Religion and Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In (both edited by
Robert Forte), Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and
Religion (edited by Thomas B. Roberts), Teonanácatl: Sacred Mushroom of
Visions (edited by Ralph Metzner), and a forthcoming Festschrift for
Stanislav Grof compiled and edited by Rick Tarnas. Tom also has published
articles in The Entheogen Review, Gnosis, The Journal of Humanistic
Psychology, The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, The Journal of
Transpersonal Psychology, the MAPS Bulletin (with Timothy Leary), Medical
Hypotheses, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, Shaman's Drum, and other
periodicals. He recently finished writing Sacred Mushroom Stems & Pieces:
A Companion to the Sacred Mushroom Seeker (not yet published) and has two
other books in progress: Edible Light and Finding God in a Godless
Universe.
Tom and his wife Beverly Jean, with whom he shares an interest in the
psychology of religion and a branch of religious studies called theodicy,
live in Olympia, Washington.
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