Welcome to Psychedelic Neuroscience

What is Psychedelic Neuroscience?

Psychedelic Neuroscience is an education platform which focuses on the insights from neuroscience (most often psychedelic research) which inform our understanding of spiritual health. I will start from our most rigorous neuroscientific understanding of the self, and point out the spaces where we may still find the ever important “spirit”. Join me as we harmonize science and spirit in a world where they too often compete.

Psychedelics provide a promising opportunity to harmonize science and spirit through their pharmacological stimulation of personally meaningful experiences. Science has done miraculous things, yet the application of science to mental health has not seen as much success. Further, in our growing faith in science, many have lost faith in religious ideas of the past which used to hold us steady in our otherwise chaotic walk through the universe. There is a vaccuum of meaning which cannot be answered by science alone, but any meaningful explanation which contradicts science is subject to immediate dismissal. It is therefore important that modern explanations of spiritual meaning find themselves in accordance with science.

The stunning success of psychedelics in healing mental illness point out the essential involvement of spirit in mental health. Further, they fit into the pharmacological system that dominates modern medicine, providing an opportunity to bring spirit back into our understanding of mental health. This is an incredible opportunity to organize a secular collection of spiritual wisdom. Rather than reject the wisdom of the past, we should attempt to rework that wisdom in modern language. Many modern individuals have done this for themselves, but it is useful to attempt a public workthrough of those nuances between science and spirit so that the public may benefit. This project is one of many efforts to do so.