Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeYH4xKoaY
Part 3: http://youtu.be/pcmwZdHA-iE

Buddhism and Psychedelics: A Community Discussion with Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman

On Saturday, October 20, 2012, Rev. Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman, Ph.D., engaged a diverse crowd in Santa Cruz with a discussion about the similarities between psychedelic and Buddhist experiences.

Rev. Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen Buddhism since 1990 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan. He was ordained as a priest and received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Anderson Roshi, and is currently the Head Teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center.

James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (2011) has been teaching about, working with and doing research on psychedelic and entheogenic experiences for decades. He has taught at Brandeis, San Francisco State, Stanford, and is now at Sofia University.

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Event co-sponsored by

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
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Council on Spiritual Practices
http://csp.org

Sofia University
http://sofia.edu