Getting Higher: Psychedelic Ceremonies Through Time and Culture

Getting Higher: Psychedelic Ceremonies Through Time and Culture

What transforms taking a psychedelic into participating in a ceremony?

Join author, psychonaut and occultist Julian Vayne for a fascinating journey through the history and practice of psychedelic ritual. From the psychoactive rites of medieval demonologists and the ketamine mummification rituals of chaos magicians to the peyote ceremonies of the Native American Church, rave culture, and the use of entheogens in museums, on pilgrimage routes and in contemporary therapeutic settings, Julian explores the remarkable diversity of ways humans have woven psychedelics into ceremony.

Discover how ritual shapes psychedelic experience and why, across cultures and throughout history, people have sought to get higher together.

**Julian Vayne** is an occultist and psychonaut schooled in the Western Esoteric Tradition, a spiritual lineage rooted in ancient Egypt in which altered states of awareness play a pivotal role. Julian has taught at universities and published on psychedelics in the academic, alternative and popular press. He is a co-organizer of Breaking Convention, Europe’s largest psychedelic conference and a founding member of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. Julian has been an advisor in licensed medical psychedelic trials, participated as a research subject, and facilitated hundreds of journeys over many decades in a variety of contexts.

 _Julian Vayne _

This talk is hosted by Psychedelic Press. PsyPress specializes in the history, literature, and philosophy of psychoactive plants and substances, exploring their extraordinary impact throughout the world. They believe original scholarship should be accessible, informative and entertaining, but above all thought-provoking.

This session with Julian Vayne will last for approximately 90 mins; with 45 mins - 1 hr presentation, followed by a 30 min Q&A.

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