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Jerry B. Brown
BornNovember 9, 1942
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, Ethnomycologist, Educator, and Author
SpouseJulie Brown
Websitehttps://psychedelicgospels.com

Jerry B. Brown (born in Paterson, New Jersey on November 9, 1942) is an anthropologist, ethnomycologist, educator, and author.

Education and early career

In 1965, Brown graduated from Antioch College with a B.A. degree in Philosophy and Religion. He received his doctorate degree in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1972. From 1972 through 2014, he served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami.[1]

Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union

From 1968 to 1971, Brown conducted field work on the California farm workers movement for his dissertation at Cornell. In fall 1968, United Farm Workers (UFW) union founder, Cesar Chavez, asked him to co-coordinate the national grape boycott from the union headquarters in in Delano, California.[2]

Brown’s contributions in assisting the UFW to win the grape boycott and sign collective bargaining agreements with major grape growers on July 29, 1970, were twofold. The first was a city-by-city analysis of the impact of the national grape boycott, based on U.S. Department of Agriculture weekly reports of table grape shipments to 41 North American cities,[3] which led to a successful boycott strategy. The second was the coordination of an international boycott which resulted in blockades of California grapes by longshoremen on the docks of London, England and Malmo, Sweden.

Brown’s roles in these two union initiatives are documented in Chapter 2, “Capitalism in Reverse,” and Chapter 3, “Workers of the World, Unite!” in the 2012 book From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement by Dartmouth University historian historian Matt Garcia.[4]

In 1972, Brown wrote his doctoral dissertation for Cornell University on The United Farm Workers Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965-1970: An Evaluation of the Culture of Poverty Theory.[5]  This monograph documents the early years of Cesar Chavez’s farm worker movement up through the success of the grape boycott in achieving collective bargaining contracts with California grape growers.

Nuclear power activism and research

In 1979, the year of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Brown founded Floridians United for Safe Energy (FUSE).[6][7] In 1983, FUSE successfully intervened before the Florida Public Service Commission to prevent Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) from charging ratepayers $500 million for the replacement of corroded steam generators at the Turkey Point nuclear generating station, located near Miami, Florida.[8][9]

From 1998-2003, Brown served as a Research Associate with the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), where he coordinated the national baby teeth study (also known as the “Tooth Fairy Project”), the second baby teeth study in American history.[10] The study found an unexpected increase in Sr-90 in U.S. baby teeth, suggesting that “it is likely that, 40 years after large-scale atmospheric atomic bomb tests ended, much of the current in-body radioactivity represents nuclear reactor emissions." [11]

From 2013 to 2018, Brown directed the World Business Academy’s Safe Energy Project. The twofold mission of the project was to close California’s remaining nuclear power plants - the San Onofre Nuclear Power Stations (SONGS), which was shut down in 2013 after replacement steam generators failed,[12] and Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant which will close in 2024/2025,[13] - and to accelerate the state’s transition to 100 percent renewable energy in ten years through the “California Moonshot Project”.[14]

Ethnomycology

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Eden Fresco, Chapel of Plaincourault, c. 1291

Brown’s studies in ethnomycology began in 1975 when he designed and annually offered a course on “Psychedelics and Culture” at Florida International University in Miami. In 2006, he discovered a psychoactive Amanita muscaria mushroom image, sculpted into the forehead of a green man in Rosslyn Chapel, a fifteenth century Catholic Church in Scotland. Mycologist Paul Stamets confirmed that this was a “taxonomically correct Amanita muscaria.”[15] This discovery was the catalyst for Brown’s ten-year search for psychedelic mushroom images in Christian art.

Expanding on ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson’s theory of the entheogenic origins of religion,[16] Brown’s 2016 book, The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity hypothesizes that Christianity has a psychedelic history. [17] This idea has been proposed by several scholars, including Boston University classics professor Carl A. P. Ruck in The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist (2001) [18] ; and most recently by Brian C. Muraresku in The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name (2020). [19]

The Psychedelic Gospels documents evidence of psychoactive mushroom images in European and Middle Eastern chapels, churches, and cathedrals, including Rosslyn Chapel and Canterbury Cathedral in England, Plaincourault Chapel and Chartres Cathedral in France, Saint Michael’s Church in Germany, and the Dark Church of Göreme, Turkey. It presents original photographs of psychoactive mushroom iconography, of both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe varieties, found in medieval Christian art - in frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, sculptures, and stained glass windows.

Service

In addition to teaching and conducting research at Florida International University, in fulfillment of his community service responsibilities from 1972 on Brown has served intermittently in executive roles in unions and nonprofits including: United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO (UFW, 1972-1975), Floridians United for Safe Energy (FUSE, 1979-1985), Business Executives for National Security (BENS, 1985-1986), Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP, 1998-2003), and the National Labor College (NLC, 2009-2011), Currently, he serves as a director and Fellow of the World Business Academy.

Books

Peer-review articles

Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown, “Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Special Issue, Vol. 3: 142-162, (October 2019)

Jerry B. Brown and Matthew Lupu, “Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on Entheogen Use in Early Christian Ritual,” Journal of Ancient History, Vol. 2, No. 1: 64-77, (March 2014)

Bibliography

Brown is coauthor of all the articles, except for the 2019 article on “Ayahuasca, Depression and Me” of which he is the sole author.

References

  1. ^ The title of Founding Professor was conferred on Jerry B. Brown (a/k/a Jerald B. Brown) by Florida International University President Modesto Madique and Provost Mark B. Rosenberg on the occasion of FIU’s 30th Anniversary, October 4, 2002. Retrieved from https://business.fiu.edu/pdf/miamiherald10062002.pdf
  2. ^ Garcia, Matthew (2012). From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Work Movement. University of California Press. pp. Chapter 2: "Capitalism in Reverse".
  3. ^ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer and Marketing Service, “Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Unloads in Eastern, Southern, Midwestern and Western Cities by Commodities, States and Months,” 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, passim. For table on “Carlot Unloads of All California-Arizona Table Grapes in 10 Major North American Markets, 1966 and 1969 Seasons Compared,” see Brown, Jerald B., The United Farm Workers Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965-1970: An Evaluation of the Culture of Poverty Theory, 1972, pp. 212-214.
  4. ^ Garcia, Matt (2012). From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Work Movement. University of California Press. pp. Chapter 2: "Capitalism in Reverse".
  5. ^ Garcia, Matthew. "Resources". Dartmouth University.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "'FUSE' Looks at Turkey Point Safety". The Miami Herald. May 2, 1980.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Florida Supreme Court, 475 So.2d 241 (1985). "Floridians United For Safe Energy, Inc. v. Public Service Commission". RavelLaw.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Florida's Renewable Energy Potential, Hearing before the United States Congress, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session. House Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications, 1981, p. 1.
  9. ^ “A small group tries to defuse FPL at hearings,” The Miami Herald, December 21, 1983, 2B. Retrieved fromhttps://miamiherald.newspapers.com/image/624618839/?terms=FUSE
  10. ^ “Couple searches for connection to radiation, childhood cancer,” The Miami Herald, Sunday, June 1, 2003, pp. 3, 22. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/647655794/.
  11. ^ Gould, J.A., et al, “The Strontium-90 Baby Teeth Study and Childhood Cancer,” European Journal of Oncology, 5:2:119-125, 2000.
  12. ^ “The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is a permanently closed nuclear power plant located south of San Clemente, California, on the Pacific coast, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV. The plant was shut down in 2013 after replacement steam generators failed; it is currently in the process of decommissioning.” Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station.
  13. ^ “PG&E to close Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, replace it with renewables, storage and efficiency,” Utility Drive, June 21, 2016. Retrieved from https://www.utilitydive.com/news/pge-to-close-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-replace-it-with-renewables-effi/421297/.
  14. ^ “Clean Energy Moonshot Explainer,” Safe Energy Project, World Business Academy. Retrieved from https://safeenergyproject.org/california-moonshot-explainer/
  15. ^ Paul Stamets, as cited in Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, Park Street Press, 2016, p. 14.
  16. ^ Wasson, R.G., et al, Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, Yale University Press, 1986.
  17. ^ Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, Park Street Press, 2016.
  18. ^ Carl A.P. Ruck, Clark Heinrich, et. al., The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, Carolina Academic Press, 2001.
  19. ^ Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2020.

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