#11 - David. B. Yaden, Ph.D.: Transcending Time, Space, and Self

<p>David Bryce Yaden, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine in <a href="https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/">The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research</a>. His research focus is on the psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of spiritual, self-transcendent, and positively transformative experiences triggered with psychedelic substances and other means. Specifically, he is interested in understanding how these experiences can result in long-term changes to well-being and how they temporarily alter fundamental faculties of consciousness such as the sense of time, space, and self.</p><p>He is the editor of <a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/looking-back-collective-history-of-humanity-through-religious-rituals-practices">Rituals and Practices in World Religions: Cross-Cultural Scholarship to Inform Research and Clinical Contexts.</a> He is currently writing a book called <a href="https://www.varietiescorpus.com/"><em>The Varieties of Spiritual Experiences: A Twenty-First Century Update</em></a><em> </em>for Oxford University Press. His scientific and scholarly work has been covered by <em>The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, </em>and<em> NPR</em>.</p><p><br>Specifically, we cover:</p><ul> <li>Self-transcendent experience that lead him to his interest in this space</li> <li>Attempting to understand the brain and mind in these experiences</li> <li>Leveraging neuroimaging to describe self-transcendence but also caution is using neuroimaging to define the psychedelic experience</li> <li>Prospection and the idea of being pulled into the future</li> <li>Selflessness vs. feelings of connection</li> <li>Time, space, and self</li> <li>Psychedelic research entering maturity</li> <li>The need to arm psychiatrists with psilocybin</li> </ul><p><a href="https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/">Mind Medicine Australia</a><a href="https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/chapters-australia-new-zealand/"><br></a><br><a hre