Upcoming events

Monday Jan 13th 6pm UK time: Post-psychedelic difficulties and what helps people recover from them

Jules Evans shares the research of CPEP on post-psychedelic difficulties

Tuesday Jan 21st 6pm UK time: Covering psychedelics: dispatches from the front-lines of the renaissance

Featuring Shayla Love of the Atlantic, Josh Hardman of Psychedelic Alpha and Mattha Busby of Vice and Rolling Stone. We'll discuss the role media has played in amplifying the renaissance, creating the hype, and now holding the renaissance to more critical account (or, depending on your view, spreading alarmism).

Training

We plan to offer training modules helping therapists, psychiatrists, guides and integration coaches understand the variety of post-psychedelic difficulties that can occur, and what the evidence suggests helps people to integrate and recover from these difficulties.

Blind spots of psychedelics: a webinar with Jules Evans and Ingmar Gorman of Fluence

Discusses some of the harms that can occur with psychedelics

Presentations

Psychological harms and ethical mishaps of psychedelics

A presentation by Jules Evans for the Finnish Psychedelic Society, September 2024

Extended difficulties after psychedelic experiences

A brief animated video of our research

Finding a way through challenging psychedelic experiences

An interview with PsyCare, UK harm reduction organisation, 2023

Studying and managing extended difficulties after psychedelics

A presentation by Eirini Argyri at Horizons 2024

Improving ecstatic literacy in western culture

A discussion on the Third Wave podcast with Jules Evans

Seminar on spiritual emergencies

with Jules Evans, Anna Beckmann and Satyin Taylor, SMN 2020

Spiritual emergencies and mental health in a post-Covid world

A video with Jules Evans on Rebel Wisdom, 2020

The Mysticism / Psychosis continuum

A presentation by Jules Evans for The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) in 2023

What to do in a spiritual emergency

A collection of videos from an event in London in 2018 featuring Dr Tim Read, Louisa Tomlinson, Anna Beckmann and Anthony Fidler

Psychedelic Safety Seminars

CPEP organizes regular Psychedelic Safety Seminars online. For the complete list of past seminars go here.

How we have helped

'Thank you for your generous consultation about this case -- I can’t tell you how valuable it was for me. I wrote a report and testified to grand jury about this case and included some of the quotes from your study participants about their experiences of derealization. I think those statements were incredibly important in helping the grand jury understand the experience of derealization following using psychedelics. Ultimately, the grand jury dropped the 84 counts of Attempted Murder...He is home with his wife and kids' - Alexander Milkey, forensic psychiatrist in the defence of Joseph Emerson, pilot on trial for trying to crash a plane two days after taking magic mushrooms

How we have helped

'I was looking for science-based research about how I could reassemble my mind after a legal, facilitated psilocybin journey at age 73. Then I found Ecstatic Integration and dove into its regular publication of thoughtful reports and research about what can go wrong when humans try to exit the matrix by rebooting the mind using psychedelics.' - Eva, a reader of our newsletter, Ecstatic Integration

How we have helped

'I had an ayahuasca experience and afterwards felt anxious and disorientated. This has been the worst year of my life. Thankfully I found CPEP's work online; I read the stories from other people who have had challenging psychedelic experiences and eventually attended the support group which CPEP runs. CPEP also helped connect me with an integration therapist who has been immensely helpful. Post psychedelic difficulties are so hard as few people can understand what you are going through; Jules and his support group are a lifeline that helped me feel less out 'at sea' and provided an anchor to help ground you and reduce the sense of isolation and devastation that these experiences can bring. I made some connections with people in the support group and shared tips with one another of what helps. I am extremely grateful that this project exists and feel it is an absolutely essential service, especially as more and more people experiment with psychedelics. Thank-you so much to Jules and his team for all that they do to help and support!' - Clare