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Paradigms, Research & Transformation offers a panoramic introduction to psychedelic research, healing, entheogenic practice, and ministry—framed within the widest, most meaningful context. We begin with the immediacy of subjective
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Paradigms, Research & Transformation offers a panoramic introduction to psychedelic research, healing, entheogenic practice, and ministry—framed within the widest, most meaningful context. We begin with the immediacy of subjective experience: personal narratives, case studies, and phenomenology that root our inquiry in lived reality. From there, we turn to paradigm theory, examining how worldviews shape perception, behavior, and meaning-making. Contemporary research shows that psychedelics can initiate profound paradigm shifts—sometimes in a single session—and we will study the mechanisms and developmental frameworks that help explain these transformations.
Students will engage through discussion, readings, presentations, and research-based lectures. The deepest learning arises through collaborative dialogue and shared exploration. Together, we will review the major scientific studies across the field, with the goal that each student becomes confident, articulate, and conversant in the contemporary landscape of psychedelic research.
As we widen our scope, we situate psychedelic studies within the grand arc of evolution—from the Big Bang, early primate neurochemistry, and shamanic traditions to the rise of science and today’s interdisciplinary research. We trace the progression of paradigms from premodern to modern, postmodern, and integral perspectives. The curriculum surveys the most researched psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, LSD, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, MDMA, mescaline, iboga, and ketamine, and covers key topics such as microdosing, sexuality, AI interfaces, personal and collective transformation, and the role of entheogens in cultural evolution.
Through a systems-theory lens, we explore psychedelics as catalysts for individual and societal change, considering their implications for psychology, spirituality, technology, ecology, and our collective future.
This course welcomes therapists, guides, ministers, researchers, and all who feel called to understand these medicines more deeply. By the end, others may look to you as a trusted and grounded voice in the domain—and my hope is that you leave relaxed, confident, and well-versed across multiple medicines and frameworks.
All Zoom meetings held on Monday evenings 3:00-5:30 Pacific / 6:00-8:30pm Eastern, beginning February 9th
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