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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

FromTara Brach


Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

FromTara Brach

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Length:
102 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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)

Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist (mindfulness) meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She is author of Radical Acceptance (2003), and True Refuge (2013). Senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. (IMCW), Tara shares a weekly talk on Buddhist teachings and practices. Visit http://www.tarabrach.com for more information. Please support this podcast by donating at http://www.tarabrach.com. Your generosity makes a difference!