#6: Life, Death, & the Space Between With Dr. Katherine MacLean

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Justin Cooke 🍄

and

J Gordon Curtis

as we sit down with Katherine MacLean, Ph.D., renowned neuroscientist and author of "Midnight Water: A Psychedelic Memoir." Katherine offers a deeply personal look into the interplay of psychedelics, grief, and death, drawing from her own poignant experience after her sister's passing.

As a seasoned neuroscientist, her insights on dealing with mortality and the healing potentials of psychedelics are compelling and invaluable.

Disclaimer: This episode contains discussions about sensitive subjects, including terminal illness, death, assisted suicide, and cancer. Listener discretion is advised.

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• Join Katherine at the Psychedelic Sangha Bardo Bath on Saturday, November 4, at the Tibet House US in New York City (Get Tickets)

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• You can find her book at KatherineMacLean.org

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Check Out Some of Katerine’s Research:

1. 🚪 Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness

2. 🧘 Intensive meditation training improves perceptual discrimination and sustained attention

3. 🍄 Factor analysis of the mystical experience questionnaire: A study of experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin

Further Reading | Topics Discussed

• MEQ-30 (Mystical Experience Questionnaire)

• Psychedelics & The Mystical Experience (Tripsitter)

• The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World (Alexander Beiner)

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• Shrooms For Existential Anxiety & End of Life Care (Tripsitter)

Past Episodes

• #5: Nicotine Dreams: The Culture & Science of Tobacco

• #4: Psychedelics, Virtual Reality, & the Brain with Zeus Tipado

• #2: A Pinch of Salt, A Pound of Prohibition: The History of Drug Control With Vinccent Rado