Psychedelic Experience with Stanley Krippner (4K Reboot)

Summary

Psychologist and parapsychology pioneer Stanley Krippner, former director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, recalls his encounters with key figures of the early psychedelic movement in this 2016 interview with Jeffrey Mishlove. He describes meeting Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, the Mazatec healer Maria Sabina, and even the Grateful Dead, and says his own psychedelic experiences were uniformly positive because he always approached them as chances to learn. Krippner also argues that marijuana, which he calls a mild psychedelic, may be useful in psychotherapy, and he supports decriminalization while calling for more research.

Key takeaways

• 1Stanley Krippner formerly directed the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, NY, and is coauthor of 'Dream Telepathy' and 'Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them'
• 2Krippner coedited 'Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence' and 'Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion'
• 3He recounts early psychedelic-era encounters with Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Salvador Roquet, Maria Sabina, Jean Houston, Robert Masters, and the Grateful Dead
• 4Krippner says his psychedelic experiences were uniformly positive and that he always approached them in terms of what could be learned
• 5He calls marijuana a mild psychedelic with potential as a psychotherapy tool, and he favors decriminalization pending more research
• 6Host Jeffrey Mishlove holds the only accredited doctoral diploma in Parapsychology (UC Berkeley, 1980) and won the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition on survival of consciousness

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