Remembering Licia Kuenning, also known as Lisa Bieberman, the 1960s Harvard psychedelic leader who worked with Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and others before leaving the psychedelic world to become a Christian Quaker. Her 1967 essay "The Psychedelic Experience," in which she names many issues of the time, is narrated at the end of this episode.

Essay transcript: https://psychedeliccandor.substack.com/p/the-psychedelic-light-of-saint-alicia

Visions of a psychedelic future require seeing through our denial and loving sacrifice. In the final essay of this opening four-part series, I offer pieces of what I think is a grounded vision for the future, and what I think will be constructive towards it, closing with what I believe about psychedelics as part of a spiritual path.

Part four of an opening four-part series.

Essay transcript: https://psychedeliccandor.substack.com/p/paths-ahead

In this open letter, I share why I left the psychedelic movement and what I see as some of its major foundational problems. But first I talk about the people I love.

Part three of an opening four-part series.

Essay transcript: https://psychedeliccandor.substack.com/p/to-the-field

Exploring potential subtler long-term spiritual and psychological risks of psychedelic use, starting with a story of my own hubris. 

Part two of an opening four-part series.  

Essay transcript: https://psychedeliccandor.substack.com/p/confessing-grandiosities

Everything I have ever learned about psychedelics has depended upon the willingness of people to take risks. Part one of an opening four-part series.

Essay transcript: https://psychedeliccandor.substack.com/p/risks-of-love