My Ignite Baltimore talk, “Teonanácatl: The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms” is now online. It was incredibly challenging to reduce such a complex and fascinating subject down to 5 minutes and 20 slides, but I did my best (albeit with a few clunky moments). If you saw the talk and came here looking for more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]