Ep. 204 - Ram Dass Explorers Club: LSD, Creativity, and the Grateful Dead with Dr. Raymond Turpin & Jackie Dobrinska

Psychedelic expert, Dr. Raymond Turpin, discusses how psychedelics shut down our ‘default-mode’ and expand our creativity in music, art, and more. 

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In this episode, Raymond and Jackie discuss:

• LSD and how it effects the creative process
• The history of LSD, bicycle day, and more
• Painting under the influence of LSD for greater imagination
• Using LSD to tackle professional problems and crack emotional blocks
• LSD and increased concentration/focus for accelerated solutions
• How Psychedelics shut down our default-mode network of the brain
• Seeing wider possibilities for creativity for the use of psychedelics 
• The Grateful Dead, musical telepathy, and their role in the culture of LSD
• Synergy of music, musician, and audience via flow states and psychedelics
• The power of psychedelic co-creation
• The therapeutic potential of LSD for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and more

This conversation was recorded as part of the Ram Dass Fellowship’s regular online gatherings. To learn more about the Ram Dass Fellowship and sign up to join a fellowship gathering near you, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship.

About Raymond Turpin:

Dr. Raymond Turpin is the Clinical Director for The Pearl Psychedelic Institute and President of the Board of Directors. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of The Pearl MDMA Project. Dr. Turpin has been studying the therapeutic uses of psychedelics and the relevant literature since the mid-1980s hoping to eventually legally use these medicines in his psychology practice. Specializing in the treatment of trauma, Dr. Turpin has extensive experience with children, adolescents, and families in a multitude of settings but has focused his practice on older adolescents and adults in recent years. 

“What they found with the LSD art, some of the precise craftsmanship that these artists normally had suffered a bit, but it had greater aesthetic value, greater imagination, more evidence of abstract perceptions.” – Raymond Turpin

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