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Center for the Study of World Religions Releases Report on Psychedelic Facilitation Training

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The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School has released “Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training in the US: A Landscape Analysis,” an assessment of the current state of psychedelic facilitation training programs across the...

With Best Intention: Psychedelic Intention-Setting Rituals as Rites of Sacralization

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This essay assesses the ritual function of psychedelic intention-setting ceremonies, using ethnographic data from Burning Man 2023. The piece argues that intention settings are rites of separation that symbolically sacralize the trip for participants.

God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

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Building on Derrida’s essay Plato’s Pharmacy, the current article examines sacred versus profane illuminations within the spiritual realm of Judaism. As exemplified by the marking nut (balādhur), the author surveys exoteric-curative and esoteric-altered...

Video: Psychedelic Intersections: Psychedelic Spirituality and Medicine Panel, February 17, 2024

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Psychedelic Spirituality and Medicine Panel, Psychedelic Intersections Conference, February 17, 2024 Panelists include: Sharaday Mosurinjohn, Queens University, 'Psychedelic Medicine, Panpsychism, and Theodicy', Victoria Litman, POPLAR at the Petri-Flom...

Bridging Neuroscience, Chaplaincy and Theology

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Krish, alias Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, presented excerpts from his recently published position paper on the meeting points of Medicine, Chaplaincy and Theology. The abstract of the publication, titled ‘You are Here’: Locating ‘Spirituality’ on the Map...

The Science of Spiritual Care

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In 1990, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan had no idea that he would one day be a divinity school student, let alone that he would find his calling bridging the worlds of spirituality and psychiatry as a multifaith hospital chaplain. Back then, Ramakrishnan, now...