Ploughing the Clouds, The Search for Irish Soma (Peter Lamborn Wilson)

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Ploughing the Clouds
The Search for Irish Soma

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson, scholar, critic, poet, and visionary best known for Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights) and his radio commentaries on WBAI New York, offers a fascinating study on the use of psychoactive plants in ancient Ireland in Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma.

Sacred Drift
Essays on the Margins of Islam
Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of "Black Islam" in...