Historical Currents in Psychedelics | J. Christian Greer & Mike Jay | Academic to Academic

J. Christian Greer (Stanford University) and author-historian Mike Jay reflect on how the study of psychedelics emerged as an academic field, and why it is best understood not as “drug history” alone but as a lens on wider questions of consciousness, culture, religion and medicine. They note how psychedelic history is often reduced to a familiar mid-twentieth-century narrative. This obscures both the continuities of the following decades and the longer history of scientific inquiry into altered states of consciousness, from early modern experiments on perception to nineteenth-century self-experimentation. Academic to Academic – a space for thoughtful conversation between scholars. See also Axess Television's website: https://www.axesstelevision.com/ Axess Television on Instagram: / axesstelevision Axess Television on Facebook: / axesstelevision