Our events showcase the breadth of inquiry into psychedelics at Harvard, including expert talks, groundbreaking research, and transformative discussions shaping the future of psychedelic studies.

Upcoming Events

Psychedelic Cinema

September 6 through November 7, Harvard Film Archive (Carpenter Center)

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center & the Harvard Film Archive

Rather than solely focusing on LSD films that more directly depict or allude to drug use and psychedelic culture, this series aims to expand the notion of psychedelic cinema through the hallucinogenic lens. Through sounds and visuals, the films seek to bring viewers to an altered state of mind in which the impossible becomes possible and the unexpected becomes reality.

Upcoming Screenings:

Visit the series site for the full Psychedelic Cinema screening schedule and details.

Reading Group | Psychedelics & Aesthetics

Upcoming meetings: Nov. 13, Dec. 11, 2024, 3:00pm-5:00pm, CSWR Conference Room

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

How do psychedelic experiences influence the perception of art and beauty? What role does aesthetics play in psychedelic experiences, and how does it impact ethical considerations?  
This biweekly reading and learning group led by CSWR Student Research Assistant Tristan Angieri, MDiv ‘26, will explore these questions and more, focusing on the relationship between psychedelics, aesthetics, and ethics. Participants will examine psychedelic practices in various contexts, including clinical, underground, indigenous, and other cultural settings. Topics will include the aesthetics of psychedelic experiences, the role of the ludic and creativity in psychedelic experiences, and the influence of religion, spirituality, and culture on taste-making in psychedelics.  
Each session will focus on one or more specific psychedelic substances and companion works of art/media or practices, using diverse readings for analysis. Participants will engage in text-based discussions and optional experiential activities such as art exhibitions and film screenings. Guest speakers, including artists and scholars, will share insights on psychedelics and aesthetics. The topics and texts studied will closely align with the Psychedelics and Future of Religion series and its invited authors and scholars.  

Registration is required; you can do so here.

Psychedelics in Context: A Hybrid Conference

November 12 & 13, 2024, Braun Room (Swartz Hall 101), Harvard Divinity School

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Supported by Psychedelics in Society & Culture Initiative Funding

Day 1 (Tuesday 11/12): Policies, Philosophies, and Science

Day 2 (Wednesday 11/13): Politics, Epistemologies and Ethics

The conference brings together leading experts from across disciplines to examine sociocultural and ethical dimensions of the rapidly evolving field of psychedelic research and medicine.

REGISTER HERE

Psychedelics & Ethics | Psychedelic Consent: An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Kylea Taylor, Emma Knighton, and Edward Jacobs

November 14, 2024, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Zoom

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

What can psychedelic studies learn about consent from the kink community, spiritual care, and bioethics?  This event explores the problems and possibilities of psychedelic consent with an interdisciplinary, cross-practice approach.  
Panelists will consider:  

  • How can psychedelic studies ensure consent is obtained safely and ethically?  
  • What are transformative experiences, and how do they challenge traditional consent processes?  
  • How can consent approaches be tailored to unique psychedelic settings: clinical, religious, and personal use?   

The panel features Kylea Taylor, therapist, Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator, and author of The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients (Hanford Mead, 2017);  
Eddie Jacobs, DPhil candidate, psychedelic bioethics, University of Oxford; and Emma Knighton, somatic, psychedelic therapist who has written about psychedelic consent informed by the kink community. 

Sounding Psychedelia: A Neuromusic Happening

November 16, 2024, 7:00pm, Holden Chapel (Harvard Yard)

Hosted by Micah Huang / Mahindra Humanities Center / Supported by Psychedelics in Society & Culture Initiative Funding

Can Music + Neuroscience…get you high? We think so, but you don’t have to take our word for it. The only way to know for sure is to come experience it yourself.

Sounding Psychedelia is concert and immersive experience in which the energy rhythms of a psilocybin therapy session are transformed into electronic music. This music is created from EEG Brainwave data recorded during the psilocybin session and processed by Dr. Ying Wu and her team at the UC San Diego Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. The data are then mapped to musical parameters that preserve and amplify the frequency and amplitude of bioelectric signals produced in the brain during the psychedelic experience. The goal: To recreate aspects of the psychedelic experience for the performers and audience, as their brainwaves “get on the same wavelength(s)” as the music – a phenomenon also known as auditory neural entrainment. This is part of an ongoing investigation of music, entrainment, and the potential of neuroaesthetic ritual interventions for mental health and socio-emotional wellness.

Walking Tour of Harvard’s Psychedelic History

November 21, 2024, 5:00pm-7:00pm, starting at 42 Francis Ave.

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

While research on psychedelics is ever present in our contemporary moment, there is a long tradition of interest in psychoactive drugs at Harvard University—from the ethnobotanical studies of the 1940s, to “mind-control” experiments of the 1950s, to the “heyday” of psychedelic research and activism of the 1960s. This walking tour traipses through the history of psychedelics at Harvard—stitching together figures as far back as Ralph Waldo Emerson, to little-known heroes of ‘60s drug culture, to contemporary felons, fugitives, and academics. This tour will be guided by the program leads for psychedelics and spirituality at the Centre, Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith. The tour is also accessible via Spotify, linked here.  
The tour will cover about 2 miles. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended. The tour will convene in front of the CSWR, at 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, at 5:00pm, and conclude in Harvard Square at the Kennedy School, at 79 John F Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA.  
Organizers will let registrants know if we plan to postpone due to inclement weather.

Psychedelics & Ethics | Symposium: A Decolonial Lens on Psychedelic Ethics

December 10, 2024, 5:30pm-7:00pm, CSWR Common Room

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

To conclude our “Psychedelics and the Future of Religion” series, visiting scholar Christine Hauskeller will organize a symposium that summarizes the ground covered during her workshop on psychedelic ethics and decoloniality. This symposium will focus on the harm done by colonizing practices in the psychedelic space, namely plants and animals, indigenous groups, and underground practitioners.


Past Events

Ernesto Londoño on Trippy, in conversation with Ellen Barry

October 28, 2024, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Sever Hall, Room 113

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center

When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil’s rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center provided Londoño an instant reprieve from his depression and became the genesis of a personal transformation that anchors this sweeping journalistic exploration of the booming field of medicinal psychedelics.

Psychedelic, Messianic, & Revolutionary Consciousness

October 24, 2024, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Thompson Room (Barker Center Room 110)

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Supported by Psychedelics in Society & Culture Initiative Funding

This evening panel represents a truly interdisciplinary conversation on a series of difficult, crucial questions in the study of the relationship between politics and psychedelic consciousness: how can the psychedelic state inform understandings of messianic impulses and revolutionary political thought, and vice versa? Additionally, what is the relationship–historical, psychological, spiritual, social–between psychedelic (and/or “psychotic”) states of consciousness and social and political change, and what are the challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls in searching for links between social change and the conscious state of individuals? By staging a dialogue on these questions between a cultural historian, a social psychologist, a human ecologist, and a religious studies scholar, we aim to model and to stimulate rigorous examination of what “psychedelic consciousness” means, and the relationship between such consciousness and political and social imagination.

Introducing PULSE: Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience

October 24, 2024, 12:30pm-1:30pm EDT, Virtual

Hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center / Supported by Psychedelics in Society & Culture Initiative Funding

This academic year, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School proudly launched a new project called PULSE: Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience.

PULSE convened legal and religious scholars and practitioners with diverse perspectives to discuss how law, policy, and ethics affect the religious and spiritual use of psychedelics. Affiliated researchers explored how different religious traditions might view psychedelic sacraments, the legal challenges of incorporating psychedelics into established or newly-formed religious traditions, state and federal regulation of psychedelic churches and religious services, ethical and legal standards for churches and their practices, and legal and ethical issues associated with integrating psychedelic spiritual care into medical practice and end-of-life care.

Watch the Event Recording here.

Psychedelics & the Future of Religion | Book Talk: emBRUJAda: charms for the living with visual artist Karen Lofgren

October 22, 2024, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Zoom

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

Visual artist Karen Lofgren will be in conversation with Psychedelics and Spirituality program leads, Paul Gillis-Smith and Jeffrey Breau, on her recent publication, emBRUJAda: charms for the living (2023).

As a visual artist, Lofgren engages with epistemologies beyond Western European colonialism, and as a gardener, Lofgren lives these epistemologies through inter-species conversation and planting medicine gardens across the world. Her work is driven by an interest in fostering a dialogue across the Americas from a feminist and decolonial view, and emBRUJAda functions as a window into this dialogue. In both English and Spanish, emBRUJAda pulls together annotated artwork, photographic collage of exhibitions and studio spaces, and prose on sentience, ritual, curses and cures, and voice. The book is punctuated by essays and correspondence from Lofgren, alongside Mexican vocalist and performer Carmina Escobar; Peruvian feminist art historian, curator, and writer Florencia Portocarrero; and Dutch curator and writer Marjolein van der Loo. As part of this book talk, Lofgren will touch on her practice of somatic listening that plays a role in her work as both a gardener and a sculptor. This conversation will explore the import of inter-species relationships and the role that “psychedelics” may play in opening these conversations with other-than-human persons.

Spiritual Care, Ethics, and the State of Psychedelic Chaplaincy: A Panel Conversation with Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Caroline Peacock, and Jamie Beachy

October 10, 2024, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Cader Room in Swartz Hall & Zoom

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

This Psychedelics and Ethics panel brings together expert scholars, chaplains, and educators to explore the state of psychedelic chaplaincy, imagine its future, and suggest opportunities to provide spiritual care in psychedelic settings. Registration at the link above.
Panelists will consider the following questions: What is psychedelic chaplaincy? What opportunities and risks exist for this growing field? How are spiritual care, chaplaincy, and religious studies informing psychedelic research and praxis? What safety and ethical approaches might psychedelic practitioners learn from spiritual care? 
The discussions features Dr. Bonnie Glass-Coffin, professor of anthropology at Utah State and co-convener of the Transforming Chaplaincy Psychedelic Care Network; Dr. Caroline Peacock, director of spiritual health for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University; and Dr. Jamie Beachy, a field scholar at Emory University and co-founder of Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies. Representatives from the Center for the Study of World Religions will also information about Harvard’s new psychedelic chaplaincy initiative. 
Rev. Dr. Bonnie Glass-Coffin is a Professor of Anthropology and co-founder of the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University.
Rev. Caroline Peacock is an ACPE Certified Educator, Board Certified Chaplain, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Jamie Beachy, MDiv, PhD, is a spiritual health educator, ethics consultant, and psychedelic therapy practitioner.

Psychedelics & the Future of Religion | Book Talk: Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey with Erika Dyck, Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan

September 17, 2024, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Zoom

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions

As psychedelics push further into the mainstream, whether through FDA decisions, court cases on religious freedom, visual and material culture, or commodified retreat centers and mushroom-infused chocolate bars, one may find oneself in search of an introductory text on the long durée of psychedelics and society. Erik Dyck’s newest book, Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey meets this moment in a brilliantly illustrated volume.

In this conversation with CSWR Program Leads Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith, Prof. Erika Dyck will discuss her recently released book, Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey. Professor Dyck has published prolifically on the role of psychedelics in the history of medicine. In this latest book, Dyck provides a terrific introductory history of psychedelics that is global in scope and attendant to visual culture. Psychedelics illuminates a history that holds together ancient traditions, indigenous practices, scientific research, and contemporary cultural relevance. This text stitches together the current scholarship on psychedelics in medicine, anthropology, history, and sociology, alongside a sober assessment of the place that psychedelics currently hold in society. Dyck poses the question: “Are we truly experiencing a renaissance or is this more of a flashback? Is it forward looking, as a true renaissance would be, or ‘Psychedelics 2.0’ merely another, possibly undesirable, rehash of an earlier failed experiment?”

Petrie-Flom Center 2024 Annual Conference: Law and Policy of Psychedelic Medicine

June 25, 2024, 9:00am-5:00pm, Harvard Law School

Hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center

A major sea change seems likely on the legal treatment of psychedelic medicines. As Phase II and III psychedelic trials near completion, the FDA may soon approve psychedelic medicines for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment-resistant depression. This represents a paradigm shift for the agency, which recently released draft guidance on conducting psychedelic clinical trials. At the same time, other federal agencies are changing their attitudes toward psychedelics, and Congress is considering reducing barriers to psychedelic research.

With these changes come a myriad of legal and ethical issues. This conference, which will seed a book, explored the law and policy challenges and opportunities resulting from increased clinical research, private investment, and political interest in psychedelic medicines.

Watch the Panel Recordings here.

Speaking of Psychedelics: A Conversation with Ayelet Waldman

June 24, 2024, 4:30pm, Hybrid

Wasserstein Hall (Milstein Conference Center) and Zoom

Hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center

In 2017, New York Times best-selling author Ayelet Waldman (HLS ’91) published a groundbreaking memoir: A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life. This intimate, courageous, and humorous book describes Waldman’s experience consuming very small doses of the psychedelic drug LSD.

Ms. Waldman engaged in a broad discussion on the origins and impact of her memoir, how the psychedelic landscape has changed since its publication, and the future of psychedelics in medicine, law, and society. She was joined in conversation by Petrie-Flom’s I. Glenn Cohen and Mason Marks. 

Watch the Event Recording here.

Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Book Talk: “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium” with Erik Davis

April 30, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Hybrid

CSWR Common Room and Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

The CSWR invites Dr. Erik Davis into conversation for the launch of his new book, Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium (to be released on April 2, 2024). Blotter is the first account of its kind, centering the history, art, and design of the iconic drug delivery device for lysergic acid diethylamide-25, or LSD. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’s boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration.

Gary Nabhan: Sacred & Ceremonial Plant Protection in a Changing Climate: Biocultural Recovery Through “Plant Humanities” Initiatives

April 22, 2024, 12:00pm, Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center

Like all plants on the planet, sacred and ceremonial plants used by faith-based and Indigenous cultures are at risk due to climate change, land development, and warfare. And yet, sacred plants—including sources of psychedelic substances used in ceremonial healing—are also being endangered by overharvesting by recreational users, cartels, and those naively engaged in cultural appropriation. Such issues cannot be solved simply by establishing new legal regulations or by biological conservation and ecological restoration; solutions will require the engagement of humanities scholars in ethics, religion, folklife studies, and cultural history. The talk will highlight examples of disrupted access or accelerated biological extirpation of sacred or psychotropic plant and animal populations, but will also showcase viable solutions from Lebanon, Morocco, the US Southwest, and Mexico. See event website for full details.

Bioethics, Legal Ethics, and Ethics of Care: An introduction to psychedelics and ethics // Psychedelics and Ethics Series

April 16, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Sperry Room, Swartz Hall

Hosted by the CSWR and Petrie-Flom Center

This event will launch the CSWR’s new “Psychedelics & Ethics” initiative, which brings together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to explore ethical questions surrounding psychedelics. The series seeks to create a forum for constructive conversations about the role of psychedelics in society, with an eye toward justice and care.  

For our opening event, hosted by the CSWR and Petrie Flom Center at the Harvard Law School, we will ask: How can legal, philosophical, and religious ethical approaches inform psychedelic studies and promote safer psychedelic use? To answer this and related questions, we will be joined by experts Dr. Mason Marks, Dr. Christine Hauskeller, and Dr. Roman Palitsky, who will respectively represent legal, philosophical, and religious approaches to psychedelic ethics. 

Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity with Andre van der Braak // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion Series

April 3, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

The CSWR invites Andre van der Braak into conversation about his recent book, Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity. In this text, van der Braak invites readers to assess the import of ayahuasca on ontological terms. Shifting away from common treatments of psychedelics in terms of individual experience, van der Braak proposes that ayahuasca-based ritual practices are intended to cultivate relationships with more-than-human powers. Van der Braak puts Bruno Latour’s concept of other-than-human persons as “beings of transformation and religion” into conversation with Neoplatonism to argue for an ayahuasca religiosity that facilitates our companionship with the gods as a means of practicing solidarity with all sentient beings.

The Curious Case of Psychedelic Integration // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion Series

March 30, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

Integration is a prominent feature of psychedelic clinical trials, therapeutic approaches, and psychedelic spiritualities. Yet, it seems that there are as many approaches and definitions of integration as there are integrators. This panel brought together three approaches to integration—a training model for integration by Dr. Alex Belser, an ethnographic study of an integration group in Birmingham, AL, by Dr. Lisa Gezon, and a set of psychometric scales that purport to assess what is being integrated, and into whom, by Dr. Tomas Frymann. This interdisciplinary panel explored the spiritual and therapeutic applications of integration, enriched our conceptions of integration in diverse settings, and troubled any guarantees about a single surefire integrative technique.  

New Ideas for Substance Use Condition Treatment: Could Psychedelics Help?

March 19, 2024, 12:30-1 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center

New Ideas for Substance Use Condition Treatment: Could Psychedelics Help? provided an overview of psychedelic treatments, including ibogaine and psilocybin, for substance use conditions. During this panel discussion, an ibogaine researcher, a certified recovery coach with lived experience, and a drug law expert discussed existing research, potential benefits and risks, ongoing policy and legal reforms, and societal implications.

Watch the Event Recording here.

Into the Crucible: Psilocybin and Spiritual Care at End of Life // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion Series

February 28, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

How can psilocybin and psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) support patients at the end-of-life? Can the spiritual experiences occasioned by psychedelics prevent the demoralization and crises of meaning-making that often afflict patients at this time? If so, what is the best way to utilize and structure such interventions?

In this Psychedelics and the Future of Religion talk, members of the Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Care Dimensions hospice center shared findings from a recent study on the feasibility and safety of psilocybin-assisted therapy for demoralized patients receiving hospice care. The panel discussed how PAT can best be used to support patients at the end-of-life and reflected on the experience of one study participant whose collaboration with hospice chaplaincy during treatment resulted in a transformational religious experience.

Book Talk: Expanding Mindscapes with Erika Dyck and Christian Elcock // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion

December 7, 2023, 2-3:30 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

In this book talk with Erika Dyck and Christian Elcock, the authors discussed their new book, Expanding Mindscapes. Elcock and Dyck discussed what it means to write a global history of psychedelics, and of psychedelic psychiatry.

Mescaline and Psychonauts with Mike Jay // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion Series

November 27, 2023, 10-11:30 am, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

As part of the Psychedelics and the Future of Religion series, the Center for the Study of World Religions presented an interview with author Mike Jay about his two most recent books, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, and Mescaline: A Global History of the First Pychedelic.  Mike Jay has written widely on the history of science and medicine, with a specialist interest in the mind sciences, mental health and psychoactive drugs.

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Psychedelics in Society and Culture: A Conversation with Michael Pollan

November 17, 2023, 6:00 pm, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center

How can psychedelics shed new light on age-old questions about human meaning, creativity, and existence? What are their implications for experiences of spiritual transcendence, our relationship with death, and the nature of consciousness? How does our understanding of psychedelics benefit not only from clinical investigations but also humanistic inquiry?

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Metaphysics and Meaning-Making in Psychedelia // Psychedelics and Philosophy

November 6, 2023, 1:30-3 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

As part of the Psychedelics and the Future of Religion series, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted scholars Drs. Christine Hauskeller and Peter Sjostedt-Hughes. Philosophers Prof. Hauskeller and Dr. Sjöstedt-Hughes present a multi-perspectival hermeneutics of psychedelic-occasioned experiences. They discuss the question: How do we make sense of the myriad of experiences and extraordinary states of being that psychedelics can evoke through lenses ground from the discipline of Philosophy?

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Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion

October 26, 2023, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

As part of the Psychedelics and the Future of Religion series, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted scholars Dr. Amanda Lucia, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Riverside and Dr. Arun Saldanha, Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota for a discussion on “Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality”. Drawing from their respective perspectives and scholarship, Professors Lucia and Saldanha discussed the racialized politics/ethics of the hallucinogenic experience (or discourses thereof) within the context of modern spiritualities.

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Psychedelic Law and U.S. Military Veterans

October 25, 2023, 12:30 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center

This event assembled a panel of leading experts on veterans health, psychiatry, public health, law, and psychedelic research to discuss the challenges facing veterans who seek access to psychedelic medicine. Panelists discussed efforts to increase funding of psychedelic research for veterans, nonprofit organizations that help veterans access psychedelics in jurisdictions where they are legal, efforts to educate Congress and federal agencies on psychedelic medicine, reducing the cost of psychedelic medicines, and current legislation to promote research and access, including state-level legal reforms, the federal Breakthrough Therapies Act, and federal defense spending bills.

Watch the Event Recording here.

Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

April 27, 2023, 12-1:30 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

Throughout millennia, Jews have explored individual and communal consciousness through a variety of techniques and traditions. More recently, Jews have played an outsized role in the “psychedelic renaissance” as researchers, practitioners, and advocates, including prominent leaders. A surge of interest in these substances creates an opportunity to reflect on non-ordinary experiences in Jewish life and theology more broadly.

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Liquid Light Book Discussion // Psychedelics and the Future of Religion

March 27, 2023, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom

Hosted by the CSWR

On March 27, 2023 The Center for the Study of World Religions hosted an author discussion (Psychedelics & the Future of Religion Series) with Professor Bill Barnard. Charles Stang, Director of the CSWR, and Barnard discussed his recent book, Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition. Liquid Light offers an in-depth immersion into the complex and fascinating world of the Santo Daime – a relatively new religion that emerged out of the Amazon rainforest region of Brazil in the middle of the twentieth century, and which now has churches throughout the world

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