Psychedelics and Spirituality

April 12, 2025 Lynne Nardizzi

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) is at the forefront of this resurgence as the medical, recreational, and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs, plants, and fungi weaves into Western mainstream culture after decades of criminalization in the United States and beyond.

As part of the Harvard Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, the CSWR is working to advance understanding and innovation of the psychedelics landscape through scholarship, programming, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities.

Psychedelics and Spirituality

March 24, 2025 Lynne Nardizzi

At a recent psychedelic conference, there were tensions surrounding the roles of science, spirituality, and commercialisation in the psychedelics field.

James Hollis: The Summons of the Soul

February 13, 2025 Lynne Nardizzi

In this filmed interview, world-renowned Jungian psychoanalyst, Dr James Hollis, explores the call from within to change your life.

He asks searching and demanding questions:

What is your soul's deepest desire?
What does it mean to psychologically grow up?
Why is change so difficult and so frightening?
Why is refusing to change more terrifying still?
What does it mean to escape the limiting influence of your background and culture?
Do you dare live your own uniqueness?
What does your soul demand of you and what is the cost if you ignore it's summons?

In this candid interview, Dr James Hollis shares his wisdom with Martin Lloyd-Elliott and Lloyd Miller, including transformational experiences from his personal life and from his many years of clinical practice.

Psychedelics and Spiritual Crisis

February 11, 2025 Lynne Nardizzi

An anthropologist talks about her work and spiritual crisis in the U.S.

Psychedelics and Conspirituality

January 24, 2024 Lynne Nardizzi

Here’s a great breakdown of the overlap of psychedelics, spirituality, New Age ideas and conspiracy theories.

Ayahuasca Guide

August 12, 2021 Lynne Nardizzi

Check out this nifty guide for safety with ayahuasca, for practitioners and participants.

When Psychedelics Make You See God

March 6, 2021 Lynne Nardizzi

What happens when psychedelics make you see God? Drugs like ‘shrooms don’t just make people hallucinate. They can also help ease anxiety, depression, and other woes—but the effects may be even better when trips get spiritual.

The Wounded Self

June 22, 2020 Lynne Nardizzi

Here are the latest thoughts from author Paul Levy, on wounds as the path to awakening.

Dr. Gabor Maté on Finding Your True Self

December 4, 2019 Lynne Nardizzi

Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation, and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature as we move forward through the challenging times of modern culture.

Ego Death

September 16, 2019 Lynne Nardizzi

What do we mean by ego death? Three different perspectives break it down here, here and here.

Awe

August 12, 2019 Lynne Nardizzi

This article looks at the emotion and the experience of awe, and why it is important.

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