Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.

Information about the endowment fund: The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.1	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.2	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:29.8	This day, welcome friends.
0:32.3	I hope you're entering the New Year in Good Spirits.
0:36.0	So lovely.
0:37.0	So lovely with you, Tara.
0:39.1	Really good to have you, Roland.
0:41.1	And I'm going to do a little bit of an intro of who you are.
0:44.4	So people know a bit more.
0:46.6	And then I have so many questions to ask you.
0:50.7	So Roland Griffiths is most known probably as a scientist, researcher, and professor of Johns
0:57.3	Hopkins.
0:58.3	He's a leader in clinical research and psychedelic use for those with cancer, those struggling with
1:06.0	addiction, with depression, actually a number of domains.
1:10.8	And really is responsible for this renaissance, this resurgence of interest in this domain.
1:19.7	Roland's a dedicated long term meditator many decades.
1:26.3	And in this personal life, he's had a recent diagnosis of incurable cancer.
1:32.4	So he's facing his own mortality.
1:35.4	So we'll be talking about all of this, including a very exciting endowment, funding psychedelic
1:42.1	research program focused on spirituality and well-being in healthy people, which to me
1:47.7	has huge implications and promise for our world.
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