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Shadow Deities & the Psychedelic Humanities

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $20
  • 828 Broadway, New York, NY
  • 1 hour

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  • $20
  • Strand Bookstore @ 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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Course Name: Mysticism Happy Hour: Shadow Deities and the Psychedelic Humanities

The Psychedelic Humanities
With Doc Kelley

Scientific research on psychedelic drugs has grown exponentially since clinical studies resumed in the 1990s after a twenty-year hiatus. New findings suggest that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy can effectively ameliorate PTSD symptoms, and that classic psychedelic substances like psilocybin (or “magic mushrooms”) and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD, also known as “acid”) can help reduce existential anxiety and effectively treat addiction. 

This “renaissance” of research has slowly begun to permeate the softer, social sciences where the study of psychedelics has largely remained a taboo topic. A small, but burgeoning, new field of study—the “psychedelics humanities”—has emerged as an important phenomenological complement to the empirically based discourse of science. Join me, as we explore the frontiers of the psychedelic humanities and discuss the exciting prospects for this new field study. 

Shadow Deities
With Michael Prettyman

In this Olio, we will look at mysticism not as a thing that is blocked from our knowing, but rather a dynamic that can be understood. 
Understanding the hidden dynamics requires an investigation into what exactly is it that is doing the understanding- what is the self that witnesses? How can we model and understand the thing that is doing the understanding? 

Although we will use psychological and wisdom tradition models, the individual mind must also be studied through the rigorous observation of subjective experience. Part of this experience is the uncomfortable truth that mysticism involves fear and pain, often intense and very personal. The shadow deities of the subconscious take many forms, most of which we would rather avoid, deny and push back down. 

However, the Bhagavad Gita urges us to ‘raise the self with the self’ rather than trample it down. This means the whole self, including the dark bits, the places in our selves that we would rather stay hidden. World wisdom traditions are unanimous in their assertion that the goal of mysticism is wholeness not perfection, and wholeness includes the parts of us that stay hidden in the caverns of the mind. 

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  • Students who cancel less than 2 business days prior to the start time of the class will receive a credit towards a future class.

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