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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 385 – “Current Psychedelic Research”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Science, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8568 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Roland Griffiths PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a talk given by Roland Griffiths, who is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In addition to describing the current psychedelic studies being undertaken there, he also goes into detail about exactly what characteristics researchers consider when evaluating whether a person has actually had a spiritual experience. Among the research participant's comments that he read, one of the most common themes was the interconnectedness of all things and beings. Also, he spoke about their research into the character of one's personality in regards to how a psychedelic experience affected their openness to the experiences of life. Another interesting thing that his research group is investigating is the intersection of psilocybin and meditation, a discussion of which takes up a significant part of this talk. “Psilocybin is a pharmacological tool that helps people recognize how it feels to embody the present moment. And that's exactly the same of meditation. It's about bringing yourself into the present moment.” -Roland Griffiths Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Johns Hopkins University Psilocybin & Spirituality Current Psilocybin Research Projects Q&A with Roland Griffiths

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0:00.0

Greetings from

0:03.0

Greetings from Cyberdelic Spaces.

0:13.0

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

0:19.7

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

0:24.2

And with me virtually today are my co-hosts, who happen to be some fellow saloners, who either made a donation to the salon, or who contributed to my Pay What You Can audiobook project, both of which will help offset some of the monthly

0:39.1

expenses here in the salon.

0:41.2

And these fine souls are David V.

0:45.6

Jesper J., Bradley M., and Frank N.

0:50.8

And for what is worth, Frank, I don't plan on stopping anytime soon, so thanks for the

0:56.3

encouragement, and thank you one and all for your support of these podcasts.

1:01.9

Now, today we're going to listen to another one of the Planket Norte lectures that were presented

1:07.4

at last year's Burning Man Festival, and it's a talk that I've been wanting to hear ever since I first learned that it was scheduled.

1:14.7

The speaker is Dr. Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins Medical,

1:19.1

and his is a name that I'm sure you're already familiar with.

1:23.4

But for any of our fellow sonners who aren't already familiar with Dr. Grypus' work,

1:28.3

all you have to do is conduct a quick Internet search,

1:31.4

and you'll soon discover that he is one of the preeminent researchers in his field.

1:36.8

And as you'll hear shortly, Dr. Grypice is, well, more or less, the front man

1:41.1

for what I think is one of the largest, if not the largest groups of professionals that are currently conducting research into psychedelic consciousness.

1:50.9

And for our deep meditators here in the salon, I think that you're going to be really interested in the research he talks about here in a bit that his team is conducting in regards to the

2:02.0

intersection of meditation and psychedelics.

2:05.3

So let's travel back to last year's Burning Man Festival and find a seat in the big Palenque

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