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Insights on Psychedelic Experiences: An evening with Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Event details
York Drug Science Society Lecture
Psychedelic experiences can be life-transforming. Sometimes the effects are negative and can precipitate psychotic episodes. Often they are positive. Many research studies now show that psychedelic experiences can help people overcome depression or addictions. They can give insights about the nature of the mind itself, the imagination, and the existence of seemingly autonomous entities, including angels and machine elves. They can also have a strong spiritual dimension and the psychedelic brew ayahuasca is taken as a sacrament in the Santo Daime Church in Brazil. There is now a Christian Psychedelic Movement in Europe and North America. How is it that psychedelics can have these remarkable effects?
About the speaker
Dr Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than a hundred technical papers and nine books, including Ways To Go Beyond, And Why They Work. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard. He was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and also a research fellow of the Royal Society. He worked at the University of Malaya on rain-forest ferns, and in Hyderabad, India, on tropical crops. In India, he also lived for two years in the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and of the Temenos Academy in London. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.
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