NAME

Robert Jesse

BIO

Bob Jesse is the organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices (csp.org/about), which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience (csp.org/PRE). CSP also encourages people to imagine and develop social contexts to contain such experiences and help them yield lasting benefit. Through CSP, Bob and his colleagues initiated a study, conducted at Johns Hopkins (http://csp.org/psilocybin/) and reported around the world, of the psycho-spiritual effects of Psilocybin in healthy volunteers (csp.org/psilocybin). This expands the emphasis in hallucinogen research beyond the medical treatment of ill people to include the betterment of well people, contributing to a science of pro-social development. On his home front, Bob is co-convenor of a spiritual community formed around ecstatic dance. His formal training is in engineering.
He resides in San Francisco.

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SYNOPSIS

TITLE

Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-type Experiences Having Sustained Spiritual Significance

FORMAT

Lecture