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Psilocybin & Spirituality Roland Griffiths, PhD. Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit

By Roland Griffiths — 2015

Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. is a psychopharmacologist who serves as a professor and research coordinator at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This interview was captured during the Psychedemia conference at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2012. See more...

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Psychedelics and Spirituality with Rick Strassman

Here he describes how he was an active Buddhist meditator for twenty years while he was also engaged in DMT research. Eventually he left Buddhist practice, and began a deep study of the Hebrew Bible. Initially, he thought that the DMT "spirit molecule" might be responsible for spiritual experiences.

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Rick Strassman, M.D. - “Old Testament Prophecy – a Western Model of the Psychedelic Experience”

Our clinical research with the naturally-occurring human psychedelic, DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) sought to understand the relationship between the psychopharmacology of DMT and spiritual experience.

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Researching Psychedelics and DMT with Rick Strassman

Here he describes the process of setting up a program to research the psychedelic drug, DMT, at the University of New Mexico. It took two years to obtain the required permissions, as there had been a twenty year hiatus in psychedelic research on human subjects.

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