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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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)

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