Un-Panel: Meditating on Psychedelics | Awakened Futures Summit 2019

Un-Panel: Meditating on Psychedelics - Featuring Erik Davis, Ph.D, Eve Ekman, Ph.D, Michael Taft, Janis Phelps, Ph.D and Allan Badiner. Moderated by Liana Gillooly.
Awakened Futures Summit | May 18th, 2019 | UCSF Mission Bay
Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and independent scholar, whose unique and diverse work focuses on the intersection of technology, religion, mysticism, psychedelics, modern culture and media. He graduated from Yale University and recently completed his PhD in religious studies at Rice University. He is the author of several books, and his essays on music, technoculture, and spirituality have appeared in many books, magazines, and journals. He also hosts the long-running podcast Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network. His new book, High Weirdness: Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies will be published this Spring.
Dr. Eve Ekman is a contemplative social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. She is the director of training for the Greater Good Science Center, and co-lead instructor for CEB, an evidence-based emotional awareness training created by her father Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace. Dr. Ekman was also lead qualitatave researcher on the groundbreaking Psilocybin for AIDS Survivors Study (PASS) at UCSF. Her work has appeared peer-reviewed journals as well as in chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science. She does training and consultation for emotional awareness and burnout prevention for private and public sector organizations in the Bay Area and beyond.
Michael Taft is a maverick meditation teacher, author, podcaster and neuroscience junkie, specializing in secular, science-based mindfulness training. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Mindful Geek and Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. He has taught meditation at Google, worked on curriculum development for SIYLI, and is currently core faculty at Wisdom Labs in San Francisco. Michael is also a featured teacher on the Simple Habit app, and an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab.
Janis Phelps is the founder and director of the California Institute of Integral Studies Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research, the first academically accredited, professional certificate training program for legal psychedelic-assisted therapy and research. A licensed clinical psychologist and therapist, she has been a professor at CIIS for 21 years and held faculty positions in the East-West Psychology and Clinical Psychology doctoral programs. Her theoretical orientations include transpersonal and wellness therapy models; Buddhism and Eastern disciplines; and phenomenology/existential philosophies. Her research and scholarly writing has focused on psychedelic therapy, entheogens, and mind-body wellness.
Allan Badiner is the editor of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Synergetic Press). He also edited the books, “Dharma Gaia: A Harvest in Buddhism and Ecology” and “Mindfulness in the Marketplace” (Parallax Press) and he is a contributing editor at Tricycle magazine. Allan holds a masters degree from the College of Buddhist Studies in LA and serves on the boards of Rainforest Action Network, and Project CBD. He believes the potential of psychedelics as an awakening to higher consciousness needs to be seen in an ecological context.
Liana Sananda Gillooly works as a Development Officer for the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is a lifetime activist for social justice, drug policy, ending war, and the environment, and is passionate about the intersection of psychedelics and technology. She has worked in event, festival, and film production, as well as artist representation, art curation, and art creation. She has been a featured speaker at numerous events, lobbied Congress, lectured MBA students, and given a TedX talk. She is also an experienced meditator and trained death midwife.
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