Registration is now open for our next online Education & Growth webinar event.
All are welcome – ASI members and all our friends! Please register using the link below.
Details
Topic: Ethics and Psychedelics
Speakers: Rachel Harris and Dana Sawyer
Date: Monday, January 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time Zone
Cost: Donations are gratefully accepted. However, there is no set cost to attend and all are welcome.
Registration: ⇩ Click the Register Now button at the bottom of this post ⇩
Description
Psychedelic-assisted therapy presents unique ethical issues above and beyond traditional psychotherapy. People are seeking mystical experience and self-actualization via entheogens. Underground guiding is expanding rapidly and is by definition illegal. Self-appointed shamans complicate the underground scene. Entrepreneurs are focused on how to exploit the so-called psychedelic renaissance. As these medicines enter our Western culture, we are challenged to learn how to preserve their spiritual nature and hold the entheogenic journeys sacred.
About Our Guest Speakers
Rachel Harris, PhD is a Psychologist with both a research and a clinical background. She was in the 1968 Residential Program at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA and remained on the staff for a number of years. During the decade she worked in academic research, Rachel received a New Investigator’s Award from the National Institutes of Health and published over forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She was in private psychotherapy practice for forty years. Rachel is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety (2017) and Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground (May, 2023).
Dana Sawyer is professor emeritus of philosophy and world religions at the Maine College of Art & Design and author of biographies of both Aldous Huxley (2002) and Huston Smith (2014). His primary expertise is in Hinduism and Buddhism but for more than twenty years, his work has focused on comparative mysticism, theories of the “perennial philosophy,” and the value of psychedelic experience in the study of mysticism. His most recent books are an analysis of The Transcendental Meditation Movement for Cambridge University Press (2023), and The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded for Monkfish (2024).
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While we offer this special online event at no cost for everyone to attend, please consider making a suggested donation of $20 or more to support the Association for Spiritual Integrity to continue sponsoring further events like this one.
All donations are made in USD funds. The ASI is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation.
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Video Replay
The replay is typically available here 1-2 weeks after the event, though sometimes privacy or technical issues may prevent this.
Transcript available soon.
