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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths
FromTara Brach
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Length:
102 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality. Information about the endowment fund: The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being
Released:
Jan 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Part 1 - Presence and Aliveness: 2010-01-20 - Part 1 - Presence and Aliveness - These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness. by Tara Brach