Council on Spiritual Practices

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The Council on Spiritual Practices is an American nonprofit that has promoted the use of psychedelics for medical and spiritual purposes. The CSP describes itself as "a collaboration among spiritual guides, experts in the behavioral and biomedical sciences, and scholars of religion, dedicated to making direct experience of the sacred more available to more people." [1]

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The organization was founded in 1993 by Bob Jesse, a computer engineer who first became interested in psychedelics through his involvement in the San Francisco rave scene. [2] In 1995 the CSP published a "Code of Ethics for Spiritual Guides" that has been adopted by many psychedelic guides and influenced other codes of conduct in the field, such as one published by MAPS in 2021. [3] [4] In the 2000s the CSP helped organize and fund the first psychedelic experiments at Johns Hopkins University, under Roland Griffiths. [5] [6] It supported the União do Vegetal in the Supreme Court case that allowed it to import ayahuasca to the United States, filing an amicus curiae brief. [7] [8] The CSP is based in Berkeley, California. [9]

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  1. ↑ https://csp.org/docs/home
  2. ↑ Pollan 42-23, 415
  3. ↑ Pollan 416
  4. ↑ The Past and Present of Psychedelics and Therapy. UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
  5. ↑ Pollan 51, 416
  6. ↑ Hayes, Charles. “Can Science Validate the Psychedelic Experience?” Tikkun (Duke University Press), vol. 22, no. 2, Mar. 2007, pp. 65–68. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=24225073&site=eds-live&scope=site. "The prime mover behind all this progressive science is Robert Jesse, a former vice president of Oracle for whom life-changing entheogenic events inspired him to found the Council for Spiritual Practices (www.csp.org) in 1994...Working stealthily under the media radar, Jesse navigated the bureaucracy and moved the study to fruition, a strategy that kept it from being blackballed."
  7. ↑ Pollan 27, 53
  8. ↑ Brief of CSP et al. as Amici Curiae
  9. ↑ Gellene, Denise. "Counterculture Drug Provides Spiritual Boost". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2012-09-17.

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