Non­fic­tion

Taste & See: Psy­che­del­ic Pesach Zine

Madi­son Mar­golin, Eden Pearl­stein, and Ami Sil­ver; Jes­si­ca Tamar Deutsch, illus.

  • From the Publisher
April 10, 2023

This zine is meant to serve as a com­pan­ion, explor­ing the seder through a psy­che­del­ic lens. Whether you choose to ingest an entheogen to enhance or rein­vent Pesach rit­u­al, or you wish to har­ness the tech­nol­o­gy of the seder itself to expand your con­scious­ness, the for­mat of the seder func­tions as a por­tal, a guid­ed jour­ney through altered states.

By reimag­in­ing Jew­ish prac­tice through psy­che­delia, we invite you to get cre­ative, to blend col­lec­tive tra­di­tion with per­son­al truth. In this spir­it, we have col­lab­o­rat­ed, crowd­sourced, curat­ed, and cowrit­ten this psy­che­del­ic Pesach com­pan­ion. In it, we hope you will find fresh inspi­ra­tion, use­ful infor­ma­tion, and nov­el inter­pre­ta­tions of ancient sto­ries, rit­u­als, and ideas.

This com­pan­ion, like all of us, is a work in progress. These are just a few pieces of a much larg­er mul­ti­di­men­sion­al puz­zle that we are assem­bling and hope to share in the near future. May we all con­tin­ue gath­er­ing the holy bro­ken pieces togeth­er as we imag­ine new real­i­ties and new worlds.

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