The value of community can help psychedelics move into mainstream culture | Robert Jesse

Interview with Robert Jesse, Co-investigator, Psychiatry, & Behavioral Sciences Dept., Johns Hopkins University, USA Filmed at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) 2024 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Questions: 00:00 Intro 00:05 What was your first encounter with psychedelics? 02:55 What do we call a mystical type of experience? 04:38 Does mystical experience relate to the person's religious beliefs, or is it completely unrelated? 05:45 Can an atheist person have a mystical experience? 06:20 There is a kind of uncertainty with the terminology. Some people speak about hallucinogens or psychedelics or enteogens. How could you define what psychedelics are? 07:24 Aldous Huxley was one of the key persons who introduced psychedelics to the Western culture. How do you see his legacy today? 08:52 How do you define the religious use of psychedelics? 10:26 You made a significant contribution to the Johns Hopkins study on mystical types of experiences on psilocybin. Can you describe your contribution and also, can you talk about the study? 12:39 In the 60s, for many people, psychedelics served as a gateway to eastern spirituality. But as far as I know, for Roland Griffis, it was the other way. So he started to do meditation, and he was very skeptical about psychedelics first. 14:28 Can you shortly explain us the findings of the Johns Hopkins study? 15:41 Some people say Professor Griffiths imposed his religious beliefs on the research participants. Would you comment on that? 17:22 We talk a lot about how to make psychedelics part of the mainstream medical care, but how should we regulate the religious and spiritual use of psychedelics? 19:11 Do you see any signs in America, that psychedelics are abused for profit in the name of spirituality? 20:09 What can we do to mitigate those risks? 20:39 As far as I know, you have initiated a public statement in which you call for open science in the psychedelic research fields. Why do you think that is important? https://www.icpr-conference.com/ https://open-foundation.org/   / open.fndn     / icpr_conference     / open-foundation      / @openfoundationicpr     / open_fndn   https://www.drugreporter.net   / drugreporter   Reporter: Péter Sárosi | Rights Reporter Foundation - Drugreporter Camera and editing: István Gábor Takács | Rights Reporter Foundation - Drugreporter