The keynote address for the "Religion and Psychedelics" conference will feature Luis Eduardo Luna, anthropologist and ayahuasca researcher at the Wasiwaska Rsearch Center. He will present “Indigenous Spirituality in a Time of a Much-Needed Paradigm Shift."
Luis Eduardo Luna is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. He is the author of Vegetalismo: Shamanism Among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon (1986), and with Pablo Amaringo of Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (1991). He is co-editor with Steven F. White of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine (2000, with a revised new edition in 2016), and co-author with Rick Strassman, Slawek Wojtowicz and Ede Frecska of Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies.
Transportation and Parking
Sullivant Hall
1813 N High St.
Columbus, OH 43210
The nearest parking is in the Ohio Union North Garage and the Ohio Union South Garage. The #2 COTA bus passes directly in front of Sullivant Hall: check the COTA Trip Planner to plan your route. Some metered spots are available on High Street and cross streets nearby.
Funds for this project come from a Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme collaborative grant. This is a joint project between the Center for the Study of Religion and the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education. Co-hosted by the Humanities Institute.