“We were recently sent video footage of a presentation on Aleister Crowley’s relationship with peyote and on the role of peyote in the development of Thelema. The presentation is a summary of a Master’s Thesis for the M.A. in Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam.”
The full text is available in PDF from Academia.edu _
The presentation took place on 3rd June 2016 at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics Research in Amsterdam, organized by the OPEN Foundation .
The ICPR is an international multidisciplinary scientific conference on the most up-to-date research into psychedelics at which researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines present their latest results.
The topics discussed at the ICPR 2016 included:
- psilocybin-assisted therapy for patients with treatment-resistant depression
- MDMA-assisted therapy for patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- psilocybin-assisted therapy to alleviate the anxiety associated with death in terminally ill cancer patients
- the biological basis of spiritual experiences
- the historical, contemporary, and tribal uses of psychedelic plants
