Today we feature the second of the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures at the Burning Man Festival. The talk was given by Dr. Michelle (Maddy) Corbin whose doctoral dissertation is titled “Spirituality in the laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences”. Among her many insightful observations is this interesting thought: “And because it came through a chemical that allowed them to study it, they began to engage with spirituality in a way that was historically unprecedented. I argue that [psychedelics] are a doorway through which spirituality entered the scientific laboratory in a way that it usually doesn't.”
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