The Science of Psychedelics

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📅 Date: 8th June 2021
🕒 Time: 7pm–9pm, including a break and a Q&A session (approx. 15 mins each)
📌 Location: Ashton Gate Stadium
👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID
🎤 Speaker: Dr. David Luke is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena, and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics. He has published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including ten books, most recently Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience.

Description
Psychedelics have been an important part of human culture for thousands of years, being used in rituals, healing, divination, and—more recently—scientific research. Did you know that LSD may have important therapeutic properties for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and addictions? Now that scientific research is resuming, what do psychedelics tell us about the weirder side of human consciousness, their role in mental health, well-being, and creativity, and what can be learned from the traditional shamanic practices with these substances and their potential as ecological integrators?

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