Please join us for a short lecture and interactive discussion with acclaimed psychedelic scholar and practitioner Dr. Deepak Sarma. Their topic is wide-ranging: “Gnosis, Noesis and Epistemic Doubt in Critical Psychedelic Theory, Hindu Mystical Practice, and Grateful Dead Scholarship.” Dr. Sarma will open at 1:30 with a short lecture, followed by lively discussion till 3:30. No charge.

Dr. Deepak Sarma is the Inaugural Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities, Case Western Reserve University. After earning a BA in religion from Reed College, Sarma attended the Divinity School at the University of Chicago where they received a PhD in the philosophy of religions, and specialized in Indian philosophy. Sarma has wondered if experiences are real or not. And if perceptions are merely projections on an underlying undifferentiated and real substrate. His own congenital epistemic confusion, compounded by a TBI in 1995, led to reflections about mysticism, consciousness and psychedelics. Sarma writes and researches…