Oh and! 100+ speakers confirmed for Breaking Convention 2025: breakingconvention.substack.com/p/100-speake...
27.03.2025 13:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jeffreybreau.bsky.social
Program lead for psychedelics and spirituality at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions. I research novel psychedelic spiritual communities in the USA: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/people/jeffrey-breau Jeffreybreau.com
Oh and! 100+ speakers confirmed for Breaking Convention 2025: breakingconvention.substack.com/p/100-speake...
27.03.2025 13:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Join me at @breakingcon (17-19 April @UniofExeter)! A multi-disciplinary conference offering the latest ground-breaking research and insights into #psychedelics.
Event details: breakingconvention.co.uk
#BreakingConvention25
How can clinical #psychedelic research better support Muslim participants? Learn about this and related questions at tomorrow's Psychedelics and Islam event. with Sughra Ahmed, Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, @AyizeJamaEveret, and Teren Sevea.
Register for zoom: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fascinating study on the accuracy of stereotypes about drug users, by Matthias Forstmann and Christina Sagioglou.
TLDR: Stereotypes are mostly inaccurate.
Also interesting that across the board drug users are stereotyped as being more open and less religious. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Harvard's Psychedelic Intersections 2025 conference recordings are up on the Center for the Study of World Religions' YouTube: And recordings of the panels and keynotes are up on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yodS...
04.03.2025 21:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you missed the 2025 Psychedelic Intersections conference, the Harvard Gazette has a great summary of the day: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
04.03.2025 21:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Christian Greer will be joining us at Harvard Divinity School tomorrow (March 4th at noon) to discuss his forthcoming article "Historians on Drugs." It's a critical intervention that will improve how the psychedelic-history sausage is made.
Register here: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...
I'll be sharing my research on novel psychedelic churches at Harvard Law School next Thursday, along with a truly remarkable group of speakers. Online registration is still available. Hope to see you there! www.psychedelicsandreligion.info
26.02.2025 21:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@psychedelicalpha.bsky.social has a wonderful article by Mia Cara Cosco about Harvard's Psychedelic Intersections conference. It is really exciting seeing the depth of inquiry this event is generating. When Paul and I started it in 2023, we never imagined! psychedelicalpha.com/news/a-cruci...
26.02.2025 21:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interviewing historian Benjamin Breen tomorrow (25th) about his fantastic book "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science."
Register here to join on Zoom at 5:30pm Eastern (there will be lots of time for Q/A): harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Psychedelic Intersections Anthology is live! Check it out to find some of the most exciting (imho!) research happening at the intersection of psychedelics and religion cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications...
Plus, you can still register for the 2025 conference: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/psychedelic-...
In our first psychedelics and spiritual talk of the semester, @resobscura.bsky.social will be joining us Feb. 25th to discuss his fantastic book "Tripping on Utopia" and its implications for contemporary psychedelic studies, spirituality, and more. Register here: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...
24.01.2025 18:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@harvard.edu's Psychedelic Intersections conference is Feb. 15th. In-person registration is almost full (it's free). A livestream options is also available. cswr.hds.harvard.edu/psychedelic-...
16.01.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Do psychedelics heal for the wrong reasons? Can RCTs correct that?
Here's the (subtitled) video of my November 2024 talk at @harvard.edu, together with other 7 great talks in the Psychedelics in Context conference π€
youtu.be/wrlY5gAtgdY?...
Thrilled my essay about intention setting rituals is finally live! This piece is drawn from my ongoing ethnographic research into novel psychedelic churches and is part of the Psychedelic Intersections anthology, to be released later this month.
cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/12...
If you're in Cambridge, Paul and I will be leading the last Harvard's Psychedelic History Walking Tour of the semester. The 90-minute tour covers the first wave of #psychedelics research at Harvard, from William James to Lisa Bieberman
Register here: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...
This Tuesday Christine Hauskeller will be presenting on her semester long Decolonizing #Psychedelics workshop at @harvarddivinity.bsky.social. Join us for this important conversation bridging critical theory, bioethics, and religion.
Registration here: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...
Registration is available for our 2025 Psychedelic Intersections conference at @harvarddivinity.bsky.social.
Date: Feb. 15, 2025
Keynotes: Marian Goodell (@burningmanorg.bsky.social) and ElΓas GΓ‘rcia MΓ©ndez (Casa Adobe GalerΓa).
Free registration here: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/psychedelic-...