Religious Leaders Take A “Trip”
Taking a Look at a Johns Hopkins Study on Psychedelics
Religious Leaders Take A “Trip”
Taking a Look at a Johns Hopkins Study on Psychedelics
In 2015, Johns Hopkins University did something truly radical, especially by Western clinical standards. They gave psilocybin to religious leaders. Not fringe hippie pastors or Burning Man shamans. We’re talking mainstream clergy, a total of 29 religious leaders including: a Catholic priest, a Zen Buddhist monk, a Jewish rabbi, a Protestant minister, and an Islamic imam.
None of whom had any experience with psychedelic drugs.
What happened next was transcendence, transformation, and unity. Something their institutions ironically spend most of their time denying.
It turns out that when you peel away the doctrine, the denominational branding, the ceremonial garb, and put people under the right conditions, with a few grams of sacred fungi, everyone seems to find the same answers to the Great Mystery.