Ethics and Psychedelics - Association for Spiritual Integrity Webinar - January 27, 2025

Psychedelic-assisted therapy presents unique ethical issues above and beyond traditional psychotherapy. Underground guiding is expanding rapidly and is by definition illegal. Self-appointed shamans complicate the underground scene. Entrepreneurs are focused on how to exploit the so-called psychedelic renaissance. As these medicines enter our Western culture, we are challenged to learn how to preserve their spiritual nature and hold the entheogenic journeys sacred.

Rachel Harris, PhD is a Psychologist with both a research and a clinical background. She was in the 1968 Residential Program at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA and remained on the staff for a number of years. During the decade she worked in academic research, Rachel received a New Investigator’s Award from the National Institutes of Health and published over forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She was in private psychotherapy practice for forty years. Rachel is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety (2017) and Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground (May, 2023).