Dr. Rick Strassman is a physician, psychiatrist, researcher, author, and a pioneering explorer of human consciousness whose work has helped transform the modern conversation surrounding psychedelics, spirituality, and the mysteries of the mind. For more than five decades, he has explored the boundaries between what we can scientifically measure, what we can personally experience, and what we have yet to understand about consciousness and the nature of human existence. Dr. Strassman studied biological sciences at Stanford University, earned his medical degree with honors from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed his psychiatric residency at UC, Davis, received fellowship training in clinical psychopharmacology research at UC, San Diego, he joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1984 where his clinical research on melatonin discovered its first known function in humans; and between 1990-1995 he went on to begin the first new U.S. government-approved clinical research with psychedelic drugs in more than twenty years. Focusing primarily on DMT, those groundbreaking studies became the foundation of his landmark and best-selling book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule; which has been translated into 13 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. He’s published more than forty peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served as a consultant to the FDA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Strassman’s exploration of consciousness has taken him through personal psychoanalysis, decades of Buddhist practice, a study of the Hebrew Bible, and a body of writing that spans science, spirituality, memoir, and fiction and he's spent a lifetime pursuing some of humanity’s oldest and most difficult questions. Ultimately, Dr. Strassman’s work has not simply expanded the modern conversation about psychedelics; it’s invited us to look more deeply at consciousness itself and to consider just how much about the human experience remains undiscovered.
Connect with Dr. Strassman:
Website - www.rickstrassman.com
YouTube /Substack - @rickstrassman
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