{"id":1460,"date":"2010-04-03T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:22:27","slug":"thinking-magically-about-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Magically about Corporations\u2014and Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer Dale Pendell <\/a>muses about the idea of a corporation as a magical creation.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pendell is the author of the three best-ever books on psychoactive and entheogenic plants: Pharmako\/Gnostis, Pharmako\/Dynamis<\/em>, and Pharmako\/Poeia.<\/em> New editions are forthcoming from North Atlantic Books.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is his Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer Dale Pendell muses about the idea of a corporation as a magical creation. Pendell is the author of the three best-ever books on psychoactive and entheogenic plants: Pharmako\/Gnostis, Pharmako\/Dynamis, and Pharmako\/Poeia. New editions are forthcoming from North Atlantic Books. Here is his Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entheogens","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ny","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9037,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9037","url_meta":{"origin":1460,"position":0},"title":"On Dale Pendell (1947\u20132018)","author":"Chas S. 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