UPDATE: Great news! Due to heavy demand, the organizers have added an additional venue, and it’s a great one—the Baltimore Engineer’s Club’s Grand Ballroom. The event will be streamed live to the new venue, which has the benefit of a really nice bar that will open at 6:30. And best of all, it’s free! Here’s [...]
Christianity Today’s Mark Galli Revisits Psilocybin Research
Mark Galli, who wrote about my transformative mystical experience under the influence of psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Christianity Today, revisits the subject in light of the recent spate of articles about the Hopkins research. I addressed his original article and how he labeled my beliefs about the experience “narcissistic” here, and he responded with some thoughtful [...]
Christianity Today Calls Me a “Complete Narcissist”
A few years ago I sat down with NPR’s religion reporter, Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She was writing a book about the scientific basis of mystical experiences, and had come to Baltimore to interview me. I spoke to her about a profound experience I had, when I was in my 20s, after ingesting Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, aka [...]
Sacred Intentions: Inside the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Studies
My article hit the streets and the Intertubes today. My gratitude goes out to the researchers and the study volunteers for their trust and openness. There’s a lot more of this story to tell, and I look forward to doing so. One of my favorite sites, The Daily Grail, has a nice writeup about the [...]