Robert Jesse: Psilocybin Occasions Mystical Experiences Having Sustained Spiritual Significance

Robert Jesse is the organiser of the Council on Spiritual Practices, which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience. CSP also encourages people to imagine and develop social contexts to contain such experiences and help them yield lasting benefit. Through CSP, Bob and his colleagues initiated a study, conducted at Johns Hopkins and reported around the world, of the psycho-spiritual effects of Psilocybin in healthy volunteers. This expands the emphasis in hallucinogen research beyond the medical treatment of ill people to include the betterment of well people, contributing to a science of pro-social development. On his home front, Bob is co-convenor of a spiritual community formed around ecstatic dance. His formal training is in engineering. He resides in San Francisco.