What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy?
This panel brought together Daan Keiman, spiritual caregiver and facilitator at a psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands, with Jamie Beachy, a MAPS MDMA Therapist and director of the Center for Contemplative Chaplaincy at Naropa University, in dialogue with Trace Haythorn of ACPE to explore their visions for psychedelic chaplaincy: what is the potential role of spiritual caregivers in providing support for people preparing for, undergoing, or integrating psychedelic experiences? What are the challenges in creating psychedelic education and training opportunities for chaplains and clergy? To what extent does the continually increasing access to psychedelics call on us to rethink, reshape, or expand conceptions of chaplaincy writ large?
The panel was moderated by Rachael Petersen. Rachael is a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion and the Psychedelics and Religion Program Director for the Riverstyx Foundation.
Daan Keiman holds an MA in Spiritual Care and has years of professional experience working in mental health and addiction care, drug harm reduction and hospice. He is one of the Lead Facilitators and the Director of Ethics and Advocacy at the Synthesis Institute, where he has guided hundreds of people through psychedelic experiences. He is a co-founder of the Guild of Guides Netherlands, an organization that seeks to professionalize professional sitting services. For the last three years, he has been working on an interfaith model for Psychedelic Chaplaincy, addressing the somatic, moral and relational dimensions of psychedelic experiences.
Jamie Beachy, PhD, is the Assistant Professor for Wisdom Traditions at Naropa University where she directs the Center for Contemplative Chaplaincy, an ACPE accredited chaplaincy training program. Having served as an ordained (Christian) chaplain, educator and ethics consultant in diverse trauma and palliative care settings, Dr. Beachy now teaches from an interreligious and earth-based commitment to spiritual care. In addition to her role guiding the contemplatively-based MDiv program at Naropa, Dr. Beachy serves as a sub-investigator and co-therapist for the MAPS-sponsored phase III MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD research study in Boulder, Colorado.
Trace Haythorn, PhD, has served as Executive Director/CEO of the ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education since 2013 in Atlanta, GA. Trace is the co-founder of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab with Wendy Cadge (Brandeis University), and serves with Transforming Chaplaincy (Rush University) and the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWU). His serves as contingent faculty for the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and is trained as a Presence-Based Coach (ICF).
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I grew up Christian, moved away from Christianity, then had a naturally occurring mystical experience 15 years later that included strong Christian themes and imagery. I was aware enough to realize I was interpreting the event using images and ideas that i learned over my life as a Christian, but that I wasn’t necessarily being instructed by the experience in that direction. I also realized I was fortunate in this regard, and that others might be quite confused and struggle over what the “message” is. Thank you so much for forging into this wild country.
So amazing to learn more about demons and ha Satan, being able to accept the experience and walking along or guiding the individual to feel SAFE. Presence of awareness, consciousness and being there, sitting with the person. Thank you very much for an enlightening discussion.
Phenomenal insights and info!! Thank you so much
I look forward to a future where the public is more accepting of these ideas and practices. Thank you for putting this together and hope to see more of these conversations.
This was extremely informative. A lot of useful information here. Thank You!
Hersey upon heresies! no just kidding. This cutting edge stuff. Psychedelics are a very versatile and useful tool for homo sapiens to not only transcend the drudgery of day to day orientations but to maximize unlimited potential. Very nice work you guys are embarking on. And a shout out to the guys at Hopkins for their work is in order too.
Excellent issues evoked for discussion. This needs to be juxtaposed with developmental psychology & specifically with the Ego-Self Axis of Neumann & the Ego & Dynamic Ground ala M. Washburn 👍🏽
One of the issues with the CIIS program is that it requires 400+ hrs of CPE hours, which most clergy do not possess (even fulltime chaplains don't usually receive this much). CIIS claims that the FDA requires the hours in order to participate in clinical trials, but I have not been able to verify.
I'm trying to figure out how to approach my parents about this. I'll try to explain this. My Dad just approached me and mentioned that my Mom is talking about hospice care. She has COPD and her health has been in decline lately. It sounds like she's preparing for the end of her life. Perhaps some background first would help. I'm 52 years old on disability for mental illness and two years ago, my wife suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. She was in the hallway outside our apartment and I was asleep inside so I didn't hear her. I was told later that she cried out that she couldn't breathe which prompted neighbors to call 911. I didn't know anything was happening until I was awakened by a loud knock at the door. By then she was already in cardiac arrest. They informed me that she was gone about a half an hour later. Being that disability doesn't pay much, I had no choice but to move into my parents' basement. The idea that my wife went in fear absolutely horrifies me and causes me a kind of pain I can't adequately describe. I don't want my Mom to be afraid when the time comes. My Dad just approached me with the hospice idea today. I had been seeing things about psychedelics being used as treatment before and came across this. I remembered this part right around here 37:15 about the woman with colon cancer. Like I said, I don't know how to approach them about it. I have difficulty asserting myself with them sometimes. If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.
You are doing great pioneering work. Sadly interfacing with major religious communities may prove difficult as they will likely treat psychedelic induced mystical experience as a threat to their collective ego
cheers
Are not psychedelics illegal? How does a patient in an institutional setting have access to psychedelics? “Invite your demons to tea” seems problematic.
@Ryan-xq3kl
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they are illegal just like other plant medicine because the government has dogmatically dictated that its safer to distribute things like over the counter opiates before they decide to use medicinal sacred plants that can induce visions
@sofiaoriana9070
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I think avoiding your demons is more problematic. We are only human and if we need to acknowledge our darkness as much as our light
Rachel is very attractive woman))
being sober is better for Psychic exsperance just saying in my exsperances that eye have recorded on here to