Psychedelics and Monotheistic Traditions:
Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition
Harvard Law School, March 2025

Schedule

Wednesday, March 5

Religious Cultures and Theologies

  • 9am Welcome and Introduction

    Noah Feldman
    Jay Michaelson

  • 930am Christianity and Non-ordinary Experiences

    Rev. Jaime Clark-Soles
    Hunt Priest
    Bryan McCarthy

  • 1030am Jewish Techniques of Ecstasy, Mysticism, Magic, and Spiritual Guidance

    Elliot Wolfson
    Nathaniel Berman
    Jill Hammer, Music, Dance, and Other Trance Techniques of Biblical Prophetic Women
    Elly Moseson, Jewish Magical Techniques as Model for Psychedelic Practice

  • 1145am Hasidism as Psychedelic Inspiration

    Sam Shonkoff, Enlightened Amnesia and Entheogenic Memory: The Case of Neo-Hasidism

    Yosef Rosen, Ba'alei Shem as Predecessors for Contemporary Jewish Psychedelic Guidance

  • 1245pm Lunch

  • 2:15 Islam and Contemporary Practitioners

    Kamal Abu-Shemsieh, Harm Reduction and Islamic Jurisprudence
    Sughra Ahmed
    Ismail Ali
    Karina Bashir
    Hena Malik, Providing Culturally and Religiously Attuned Care
    Fayzan Rab, Muslim Communities’ Perceptions of Psychedelics

  • 3:30 Complexifying Psychedelic Theologies

    Christian Greer, Psychedelic Christianity: Real and Imagined
    Sharday Mosurinjohn, Psychedelic Gnosis
    Ron Cole-Turner, Psychedelics and the Christian Mystical Path
    Tim McMahan-King, Psychedelics and Natural Law

  • 4:30 Contemporary Religious Use: Hearing from practitioners

    Natalie Ginsberg
    Rabbi Dan Goldblatt
    Zac Kamenetz
    Madison Margolin
    David Sauvage
    Jessica Felix-Romero
    Joshua Falcon
    oriana mayorga

  • 6:30 Dinner for Presenters

  • 8:00 Open Space Sessions and Screening of A Table of our Own

Thursday, March 6

Law and Policy

  • 9:00am Welcome

  • 9:15 Safety, Access, Justice, and Equity

    Laura Appleman, Eugenics, Big Pharma, and Problematic Futurisms
    Ayize Jama-Everett
    Mason Marks
    oriana mayorga

  • 10:30 Legal Doctrines and Religious Realities

    Jeffrey Breau - Learning from Novel Psychedelic Spiritual Communities
    Victoria Litman
    Josh McDaniel
    Charles Stang

  • 11:45 RFRA, the DEA, and Religious Exemptions

    Ismail Ali
    Allison Hoots
    John Rapp - RFRA Challenges That Have Succeeded… and Failed
    Matt Zorn

  • 1:15pm Closing Remarks

    Noah Feldman
    Jay Michaelson

  • 1:30 Lunch for Afternoon Session Participants

  • 2:30 Afternoon Session 1 (for legal scholars, practitioners and psychedelics field stakeholders)

  • 4:00 Afternoon Session 2 (for Jewish Psychedelic Practitioners)

  • 5:45 Symposium Ends