Hi, everybody. Welcome to Psychedelics Weekly, your weekly roundup on all things

psychedelic. It's really great to have you all with us. I'm Julian Bost,

your host for today's episode. This week's episode is quite special, as we will be joined by one of

the biggest names in psychedelic neuroscience. Before we dig in, I want to talk about our upcoming

psychedelic conference convergence, coming up from March 30th to April 2nd. It's going to be

incredible, a ton of fun.

We're expecting about 800 people per day, 1,200 people for the night portion.

We have all kinds of vendors and exhibits.

Our speakers include some of the brightest minds in the psychedelic field, Dr. Carl Hart, Sutton King, Hamilton Morris, Steve DeAngelo, Amanda Ryman, Mary Sanders,

and Felipe, and many others. We're featuring some really cool indigenous panels. We have some

incredible live music by some awesome bands and DJs. The venue is otherworldly. Convergence is being

held at the Wisdom in downtown Los Angeles. And if you haven't heard of the Wisdom, I highly recommend you look it up.

Big shout out to Alexa, Monica, Marissa, and the rest of my team members who have been working so hard with this conference together.

I also want to briefly mention Vital, our 12-month training program, and let everybody know that applications are now open for the 2023,

2024 cohort, which will begin April 18th. It is one of the most comprehensive psychedelic practitioner training programs in the world, and the reviews from our students for the first

cohort, which launched last April, have been unbelievably positive. Please visit psychedelicsday.com

for more information on convergence and vital, and psychedelic

education center.com for our full course offering.

You can also see our full list of podcasts, and I encourage everyone to sign up for Keeping

Tabs, our psychedelic newsletter.

There was one convergence speaker I intentionally failed to mention,

and he is our special guest today. Mnash Gern. Minesh is the chief research officer for

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