Should You Be Taking Psychedelics? The Benefits, the Risks, and the Science. | Jay Michaelson
Featuring a meditation teacher, author, professor, and dedicated experimenter with these molecules.
Jay Michaelson is a journalist, meditation teacher, rabbi, and professor of religious studies whose work for the last several years has been focused on psychedelics, meditation, and spirituality.
Jay is a field scholar at Emory University’s Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality, and a fellow at Harvard Law School’s project on Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience. He is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, teaching courses on psychedelics, law, and religion.
In this episode we talk about:
- Everything you should know about psychedelics if you’re wondering whether to give them a try
- What the research shows thus far
- The differences among various compounds
- The overlap between meditation and psychedelics
- The difference between spirituality and healing
- The dizzying question of whether these medicines have a separate consciousness
- And more
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Additional Resources:
- Both/And with Jay Michaelson
- A special guided meditation from Jay to accompany this episode
- Two free upcoming events:
- Emory Science on Spiritual Health Conference (free, online)
- Harvard Symposium on Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions (which Jay co-chairing)