USC CMS Mindfulness Science Keynote Lecture with Dr. Carlos Warter MD

In this talk, Dr. Warter will delve into the transformative potential of psychedelics in psychiatry and beyond. This presentation will explore his fifty+ years of study in this area and highlight how psychedelic substances can facilitate profound healing and growth. When we transit from the labeling of “hallucinogens” to “psychedelics” one leap occurs. When we move to enthrone their effects on knowledge of self we have “entheogens” - this opens the doors to the realization of the human promise that is the initiatory act of mystical awakening and has been used by healers for thousands of years. Mainstream psychiatry largely abandoned psychedelics by the 1970s for a variety of reasons. There is renewed hope for their efficacy because current treatments are inadequate yet calling them "medicine" is problematic