In this episode Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, invited us to her beautiful home and research hub in the Oxfordshire countryside. We had a wide ranging and fascinating conversation, where it became apparent that, after decades of tireless researching and campaigning, the foundation finds itself in the anteroom to major change in the world of psychedelic science.

We discussed:

- The Genesis of the Beckley Foundation

- Her work with a selection of fascinating scientific collaborators

- The qualitative characteristics of the ‘mystical experience’

- How she differentiates the mystical experience from ‘peak’ experiences

- The utility and potential of psychedelics to briefly interrupt the axiom of negative rumination which is such a characteristic trait types of refractory mental illness

- The role of psychedelics in palliative care

- The issue with funding

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