Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths
- Fabiana da Silva Alves
- Jan 2, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 23, 2024
Prof Roland Griffiths was a long term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.