Leor Roseman is a Senior Lecturer and Psychedelic researcher at the University of Exeter. He is also the founder of Ripples - a non-profit dedicated to peacebuilding and collective liberation supported by psychedelics. His interdisciplinary research covers neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, anthropology and conflict resolution, using various research methods such as fMRI, quantitative, qualitative, microphenomenology, ethnographic, and participatory research.

How Psychedelics Spread: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Psychedelic Diffusion

By trying to answer how psychedelics diffuse, what is revealed is the dynamics through which they excite us - their revelatory quality can lead to (revolutionary) enthusiasm at their service. I will graphically present the dynamics of psychedelic diffusion in various sociopolitical contexts. The examples will include the early Peyote movement, Santo Daime, 60s psychedelia, medicalisation, Palestine-Israel, and more. The revolutionary dynamics draw theoretically from Badiou’s Being and Event, Wallace’s Revitalization Movements, and Tave’s Revelatory Events. The talk will provide a supra-perspective on the current state of ‘the movement/s’ and give a glimpse of potential futures. It will be entertaining.