Judaism Unbound Episode 523: Jewish, Psychedelic Journeys - Zac Kamenetz, Josh Lipson
Jewish Journeys, an unprecedented population study of Jewish Americans’ perspectives on psychedelics, explores the attitudes, practices, and needs of the emerging Jewish psychedelic community in the United States. Zac Kamenetz and Josh Lipson join Dan and Lex for a conversation about this study, its implications for American Judaism, and how we might take lessons from the field of psychedelics and apply them to contemporary Jewish life.
[2] Learn more about Jewish Journeys here — and check back in a couple weeks when the Jewish Journeys data is made public!
[3] For a previous Judaism Unbound episode featuring Zac Kamenetz, see Episode 225: Jewish Psychedelics - Zac Kamenetz. You can also check out another episode on the subject, via Bonus Episode: The Jewish Psychedelic Summit - Natalie Ginsberg, Madison Margolin.
[4] To explore the work of Shefa, the organization that Kamenetz leads, head to Shefaflow.org. For more on MOSAIC: a Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality at Emory University (where Josh Lipson serves as postdoctoral research fellow), click here.
[5] Kamenetz references the notion of prayer as risk, from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Man is Not Alone. Learn about that classic book in more detail here.
[6] Dan mentions a Judaism Unbound episode featuring Ruby Namdar, reflecting on the loss of primary experience that occurred with the destruction of the second temple. For more on this, see Episode 153: Fiction Between Worlds - Ruby Namdar.
[7] For the full narrative of the pardes (orchard), that Lipson mentions, click here. Although, often it is told starting at a later point on that Talmud page (here), we encourage you to read it in its entirety!