Webinar June 17th 2025 Jules Evans: The Psychedelic Industry’s Entity Dilemma

Sometimes, even quite often, people encounter ‘entities’ on psychedelics, which may give them messages, heal them or sometimes seem to threaten them or cause them harm. This presents a dilemma for the budding psychedelic therapy industry and the related field of research regarding informed consent. Don’t mention the entities, and people might express ontological shock at encountering them. Do mention the entities, and people and regulators might very well be put off and not take the field seriously, or even see it as spiritually dangerous. 

But precisely what sort of entity encounters do people report? What different attitudes to these experiences has the psychedelic therapy field taken? And what might be a wise approach to this topic, for therapists, guides and industry figures? On Tuesday June 17th at 6PM (UTC+3), we’ll dig into these questions in a webinar lecture by Jules Evans, philosopher, historian and director of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project.

The event contains a Q&A section and the total length is 2 hours.

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About the speaker:

Jules Evans is the director of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project, a non-profit which researches post-psychedelic difficulties and what helps people cope with them. He is also the editor of Ecstatic Integration, a popular substack exploring psychedelic and ecstatic integration. He is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. He’s the author / co-author of four books, including Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (2012), The Art of Losing Control (2017) and Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency (2020). He has written and presented for publications including The Times, Economist, Spectator, Financial Times, BBC Radio 4, Audible and Aeon, and he was a BBC New Generation Thinker.