Ceremonial practices bring a spiritual context to work with sacred plants and psychedelic medicines. This expansive context facilitates shifts in emotional processing that appear to underlie relevant mental health improvements. In this lecture, Dr. Tafur will draw upon his experience in traditional ceremonies and on research in the fields of psychedelic clinical medicine, neuroscience, emotional biology, and epigenetics.
About Speaker
Dr. Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American integrative physician. After completing his family medicine training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. He is also a co-founder of the nonprofit Modern Spirit. Among their projects is the Modern Spirit Epigenetics Project, based at USC, an analysis of the epigenetic impact of MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.