“Spiritual Promiscuity, Psychedelic Interdependence, and The First World Congress of Sorcery”

Julián Sánchez González, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology

Julián Sánchez González examines the proximity of cultural production to cultural appropriation at the 1975 “First World Congress of Sorcery” (Primero Congreso Mundial de Brujería) in Bogotá, Colombia. Sánchez González analyzes the intermixing of politics, race, and cosmologies that took place there in terms of “spiritual promiscuity,” highlighting such cultural convergences as simultaneously deviant, generative, and sacred.