
A Path to Critical Global Psychedelic Infrastructure
Psychedelics are scaling globally, but the ability for the global clinical mainstream to skillfully relate to the vast range of effects they can produce is not. Medical textbooks, board certification criteria, ICD 10/11 billing codes, the DSM-5 of the APA, and nearly all related mainstream mental health and clinical institutions are totally unprepared to relate with nuance and sophistication to most of the transformations, highs, lows, and other effects that psychedelics (and modalities such as intensive meditation, etc.) can produce in the short, medium, and long term. Medical ethics demands that we do better. Market-based solutions are failing to find commercial incentives or sustainable pathways to change these high-inertia, conservative systems. Ask yourself, "Would I rather process a psychedelic experience at the Zendo Project tent or in a mainstream A&P or psych ward?" If the answer is the Zendo tent, this presentation is for you. This presentation is a comprehensive, step-by-step roadmap how this can happen, how we build the critical global infrastructure to compassionately support psychedelics scaling vastly more safely, ethically, and responsibly. It is in the same spirit of Rick Doblin's PhD thesis that guides MAPS itself and was inspired by his remarkable work. It synergistically fills in a critical piece of the puzzle for global healing and transformation.
Retired ER/A&E physician, longtime explorer of consciousness through diverse modalities including psychedelics and intensive meditation, volunteer CEO and founder of Emergence Benefactors and co-founder of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) , MSPH in epidemiology, author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, co-founder of the Dharma Overground, philanthropist, neuroscience citizen scientist, co-author of The Fire Kasina, have volunteered to help thousands of people relate more skillfully to their diverse meditation and psychedelic experiences over 25+ years, currently dedicated to upgrading the global clinical mainstream's relationship to the deep end of human experience, volunteer for numerous other philanthropic projects.