Hi Friends! While my house renovation is STILL not completed, I'm hard at work getting things ready for December! I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. Thanks to everyone for being so supportive. ❤️
Mindfulness practice leads to altered states of consciousness. Who knew?! Someone please tell the Buddhists. A perfect example of Western science ignoring centuries of research from other cultures. bps.org.uk/research-digest/m…
Planning to take a psychedelic soon? Please join our study to understand the role of memories in psychedelic experiences at tinyurl.com/psmemory!
Anyone planning to take any long-acting psychedelic in any context can join. The first part will take max 10 mins. Please share!
ALT Planning to take a psychedelic? Help us understand the role of memories in psychedelic experiences. For more information and to join this Maastricht University study, see https://tinyurl.com/psmemory.
Excited to share a new paper written with @NicolasLanglitz on psychedelic therapy as form of life. We consider the ethics of PT from philosophical and anthropological perspectives, exploring some emerging controversies 1/ link.springer.com/article/10…
For my new mailing list, I wrote about speaking at SXSW this weekend, and I shared some background context for a recent post (led by @TehseenNoorani for Harvard's Petrie-Flom Center's "Bill of Health" blog) about the risk of "ethics washing" underground psychedelic lineages.
A wonderful intervention. So much weirdness this way comes...I am incredibly relieved to see some serious thinking on the juxtaposition of AI and the esoteric.
Good morning! Today I am going to brighten your day by sharing some truly stellar work on religion and AI, from a recently published special issue of the Journal of American Religion. First up we have the awesome introduction to the collection by @jaarboss muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
How were your celebrations? Whatever you did, ritual played a key role. Ritual works below the level of consciousness, changing the what or how of our embodied knowing. The transformative power of ritual inspired a project I’ve just launched. adrianharris.org/blog/2024/0…
Don't miss our live online panel discussion on the metaphysical side of psychedelics featuring
@PeterSjostedtH ,@ShardayCM ,@JylkkaJussi
& Marta Santuccio. Next Monday!
Register here: lnkd.in/eGFrA-3D
💻Monday 11 December
📷8PM CEST (7PM GMT, 2PM EST, 11AM PST)
This article by Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith on the influence of Vedantic Hinduism on the way #psychedelic science measures #mysticism is amazing.
Psychometric brahman, psychedelic science: Walter Stace, transnational Vedanta, & the MEQ
doi.org/10.1080/03080188.202…