#  2025 Conference Anthology 

 



##  Psychedelic Intersections: Betwixt & Between Chaplaincy, Plant Medicine, and Aesthetics 

 Psychedelics and Spirituality 

2025 Conference Anthology



 

 

 

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*Psychedelic Intersections: 2025 Conference Anthology* draws on research presented at the 2025 "Psychedelic Intersections: Betwixt and Between Chaplaincy, Plant Medicine, and Aesthetics" conference. Edited by Paul Gillis-Smith and Jeffrey Breau, this *Anthology* features interdisciplinary scholarship, including religious studies, anthropology, clinical science, art history, Indigenous studies, and more.

The *Anthology* opens with an introduction by Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith, the Center's Program Leads for Psychedelics and Spirituality. Following the introduction are two interviews, the first with the conference's morning keynote, Elías García Méndez, and the second with evening keynote, Marian Goodell. The rest of the volume includes 14 chapters that are organized into three research sections: Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Care; Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions; and Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Transcendent.

Each chapter of the open-access *Anthology* can be accessed digitally below.



 

  [### Introduction: Varieties, Intersections, and the Human

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publication/psychedelic-intersections/2025/introduction)Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith

 

  [### Communal Work, Ceremonial Becomings, and Rights to Knowledge: An Interview with Elías García Méndez 

 ](/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/communal-work-mendez)Elias Garcia Mendez

 

  [### Burning Man, Spirituality, and Transformative Experience: An Interview with Marian Goodell

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/goodell_interview)Jeffrey Breau and Marian Goodell

 

  

 

 

 

###  Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions 

 



  [### Re-existence in the Ancestral and the Inherited: Sacred Plant Medicine and Urban Muysca Indigenous Revitalization 

 ](/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/castaneda-sierra)Andrea Sánchez-Castaneda, PhD, Nicolle Torres-Sierra

 

  [### Indigenous Reciprocity Amid Contemporary International Shamanic Networks

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/Platero)Lígia Platero

 

  [### From the Book of Language to Self-Help Memes: Shifts in Huautla's Role Mediating Mushroom Encounters

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/Feinberg)Ben Feinberg

 

  [### The Peyote Road: Uncovering the History of a Sacred Journey

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/peyote-road)Reanna Daniels, Kelly Daniels, Erika Dyck

 

  [### The Healing of the Thunderbolt: Nahua Medicine and Psilocybe Mushroom Rituals 

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publication/psychedelic-intersections/2025/healing-thunderbolt-romero)Osiris González Romero

 

  

 

 

 

##  Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Care 

 



  [### Sacred Substances, Sacred Wounds: The Intersection of Psychedelics, Adverse Religious Experiences, and Spiritual Healing

 ](/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/gezon)Lisa Gezon

 

  [### Expectancy and Hope in MDMA-Assisted Therapy

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/expectancy-and-hope-mdma-assisted-therapy)Jamie Beachy, Francis Guerriero, Wael Garas

 

  [### Mushrooms, Mysticism, and the Fantasy of Disembodiment 

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/Mayanthi)Mayanthi Fernando

 

  [### Psychedelic Churches and Secular Forces

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publication/psychedelic-intersections/2025/psychedelic-churches-feldman-mian)Maha Mian, Aidan Seale-Feldman

 

  

 

 

 

##  Psychedelics and Aesthetics 

 



  [### The Aesthetics of Psychedelic Orientalism and the Pedagogy of the Entheogenic Body

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/psychedelic-orientalism-al-marashi)Ibrahim Al-Marashi

 

  [### Beauty and Immanence in Magic Mushroom Trip Reports

 ](/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/mushroom-trip-reports)Joshua Falcon

 

  [### The Psychedelic Temple – Re-imagining ancient Jewish temple space through Psychedelic Aesthetics

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publication/psychedelic-intersections/2025/bloch)Natalie Bloch

 

  [### Psychedelic Entity Encounters Under Anesthesia in the Early Twentieth Century

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/entity-encounters-green)Jacob Green

 

  [### From Iron Curtain to Inner Vision: Psychedelics, Spiritual Awakening, and Political Imagination in Ukrainian Art after the Fall of Communism

 ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/2025/lozhkina)Alisa Lozhkina

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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