Let’s take a trip—way, way back to April 2019—and revisit Doc Kelley’s appearance on the Dead to Me podcast. Doc and DTM host Casey Rae take a deep dive into the “many real world connections” between Buddhism and the Grateful Dead.
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“Though psychedelics have the potential to catalyze so-called mystical experiences, these are still marked by a subtle sense of self and time, and thus one may still be attached to these experiences. The self experiences that they are one with the world, thus this apparent unity has an observer.”
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“A consistent yoga practice has given me more mental-emotional stability which has been very helpful in navigating the psychedelic experience as well as integrating the insights and inspiration into my daily life.”
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“When I was in my early 20s, I met an American geshe and he turned me onto Madhyamika and I got into the philosophy. I didn’t like the formality of Tibetan lam-rim meditations though, so I switched to Zen. But even there I am pretty much a ronin.”
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“I find psychedelics offer a direct experience of that which the sutras and tantras speak of. Without psychedelics, these states are likely to be merely names and concepts on a printed page without any living correlate—words that may be intellectualized or entirely misconstrued.”
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“As a person and author, I see all these aspects of my life—Buddhism, psychedelics, sexuality, substance (mis-)use, mental health, learning difference—as parts of a whole.”
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