Interview on Empowered Conversations: Mapping Mysticism, Psychedelics, and Mental Health
Joshua Pritikin joined Precious Dee on Empowered Conversations to talk about Religion Unburdened by Belief and the terrain between mysticism, psychedelics, and mental health.
Topics in the conversation:
- 💼 Joshua’s journey from Wall Street to psychology
- 🕊️ Religion unburdened by belief, and what’s left when you subtract belief
- 🧩 Internal Family Systems and the search for Self
- 💔 Trauma, dissociation, and healing in religious and psychedelic experience
- 🍄 Psychedelic readiness as a progression, not a leap
- 🌿 Santo Daime ceremonies and structured exploration
- 🤖 AI, human worth, and religious duty toward large language models