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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This weekend is the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit! It's a much-needed event that features the voices of participants from psychedelic clinical trials, along with some psychedelic researchers, myself included. Here's a link to register for free: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit

psychedeliclivedexperiences.com

Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit

Free summit bridging science and lived expertise with nuance and wisdom. Hear from 50+ patients, therapists, and researchers in psychedelic care.

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Jason Luoma, Ph.D. @jasonluoma.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Super important new paper on reports of challenging experiences by therapists who have participated in research trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Reveals huge rift between what providers believe is necessary and what industry is developing as a standard. #psychedelicscience

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Very excited to share a fantastic new album from one of my oldest friends, Jeff Tobias. There are so many gut-twisting feelings in our current moment, and I think this album captures them in a unique and revelatory way

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A great (and not too long) discussion from Franklin King on psychedelics' putative potential to radically shift models of care & healing

youtube.com

Psychedelic Projections: What do Psychedelics Really Offer? | Franklin King

YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Conversion therapy is a psuedo-therapeutic evil that we can't let take root in psychedelic treatments any more than it already has. We offer this letter in the spirit of drawing a clear line in the sand against such practices. **If you agree, please sign the consensus statement at the bottom!**

open-foundation.org

An Open Letter Reply to Dr. Stan Grof - OPEN Foundation

In this open letter, leading voices in the psychedelic field including Alex Belser, Andrea Ens, Bill Brennan, Dee Dee Goldpaugh, and Jeff Guss respond to Stanislav Grof’s recent statement addressing t...

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Now that we're all acquainted, could I ask a favor? Does anyone have the full text of this manuscript they can send me: archives.lib.purdue.edu/repositories... From the bits I've read, its critique strikes me as relevant to where we're currently at

archives.lib.purdue.edu

Manuscript by Charles Savage: "A Review of LSD and Alcoholism" by Ludwig, Levine, and Stark., undated | Archives and Special Collections

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hi there 🏔️ I’m Bill, and I live in the Catskills, NY. 1) Consultant and trainer at Cybin, Gilgamesh, & others. Co-creator of EMBARK: a.co/d/gw2K0qq 2) GuideSite Consulting: guidesiteconsulting.com 3) Finishing “My Brilliant Friend,” which has been RIVETING. 4) Cat’s name is Moose.

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

At long last, the EMBARK book is available to purchase! Alex & I hope it is of service to the field as it finds its way forward. a.co/d/isu50BX

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

A must-read interview w/ a patient who experienced persisting adverse effects post-psilocybin. "When the trial ended, it was like going from great support to no support. If you introduce psychedelic therapy, and there's no support set up once the treatment finishes, you shouldn't go ahead with it."

ecstaticintegration.org

Did Compass minimize adverse experiences in its psilocybin trial?

One of the trial participants thinks so

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

It was a pleasure to exchange thoughts with the always-great Ed Prideaux on Peter Sjostedt-Hughes' proposal to incorporate didactics on metaphysics into psychedelic therapy. TLDR: I think it's risky to offer to suggestible patients, but potentially a great competency for therapists to get trained in

ecstaticintegration.org

Psychedelic therapy & the Metaphysical Menu

Would you like a side-order of Spinoza with that?

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

It was great to speak to Jules Evans (one of my favorite voices in the space) about EMBARK, the model of psychedelic treatment I developed with Alex Belser. He asked some very good questions: www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/belser-and...

ecstaticintegration.org

Belser and Brennan on the EMBARK model

And what they think existing models of psychedelic-assisted therapy leave out

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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

A moving and illuminating account of how the political gets swept under the rug of transcendence in psychedelic healing spaces - and its return in the form of a thousand unspoken cracks in some attendees' sense of safety

thepolyphony.org

‘We are All One’, and Other Proverbs of Spiritual Bypassing

In the first entry of the Critical Mental Health and Orientalism series, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi examines the apolitical tendencies of Western healing spaces, and how these tendencies can prevent mo…

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