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Implications of Psychedelic Research for Emotional Suffering Associated with Dying or a Life-Threatening Illness

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Anthony P Bossis, PhD

Implications of Psychedelic Research for Emotional Suffering Associated with Dying or a Life-Threatening Illness

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

  • Location Online
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date/Time Saturday, March 20, 2021
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PT

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“Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation”
Thich Nhat Hanh

In this presentation, Drs. Anthony P. Bossis and Charles S. Grob will review the history and findings from psychedelic mystical experience research to relieve the psychological, existential, and spiritual distress associated with cancer or at the end of life. FDA-approved clinical trials have demonstrated safety and efficacy of a single psilocybin-generated mystical experience in helping individuals cultivate equanimity, enhance existential and spiritual well-being, and foster a greater acceptance of the dying process with less anxiety. Landmark published scientific findings of reductions in depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and demoralization along with improvements in spiritual well-being will be presented along with implications for palliative and hospice care. Psilocybin is the psychedelic compound found in specific species of mushrooms. Subjective features of a mystical experience include unity, sacredness, transcendence, awe, ineffability, and an enhanced awareness of positive emotions including that of love. 

Psilocybin-generated experiences offer a novel therapeutic approach to promote meaning-making and an openness to the mystery of death.  The phenomenology of psychedelic-generated states of consciousness shares common ground with the wisdom teachings found in Buddhist traditions, notably that of impermanence and the interconnectedness of all beings and phenomena. Other accounts include insights regarding mindfulness, compassion, and equanimity amidst suffering and difficult emotions. Psychedelic treatment does not solely rely on symptom reduction or a drug effect per se, but rather on insights and memories from the unique phenomenology of transpersonal experience that allows the possibility to discover new perspectives regarding the nature of self, death, and consciousness. Implications for the enhanced understanding of religious experience, consciousness studies, and inter-religious dialogue will also be addressed.  Drs. Grob and Bossis are guest editors on a special series on psychedelics for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (SAGE). 

 

Click here to learn more about  Charles S. Grob’s new book “Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens.”

Click here to read a brief interview with Anthony P. Bossis, PhD.

Special thanks to Geoffry D. White, Ph.D. for making this event possible.

 

This event will be recorded and emailed to everyone who registers. 

Anthony P Bossis, PhD

Anthony P. Bossis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine conducting FDA-approved clinical research with the psychedelic compound psilocybin since 2009. Dr. Bossis was director of palliative care research and co-principal investigator on the landmark 2016 clinical trial and publication demonstrating a significant reduction in emotional... Read more

Implications of Psychedelic Research for Emotional Suffering Associated with Dying or a Life-Threatening Illness

“Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation” Thich Nhat Hanh In this presentation, Drs. Anthony P. Bossis and Charles S. Grob will review the history and findings from psychedelic mystical experience research... Read more

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Berlin to Los Angeles to InsightLA I started my professional life as a Gynecologist at the University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. I had fallen in love with the universality of the Buddhist teachings as a searching teenager and it surely helped me stay sane through medical school and residency. In 2003 my husband, baby daughter... Read more

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