Returning to Innocence: Body and Psychedelics
Fr., 07. Feb.
|University Of Cambridge, St John's St., Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
My talk at the Cambridge University Psychedelic Society about somatic aspects of psychedelic states.


Time & Location
07. Feb. 2025, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT
University Of Cambridge, St John's St., Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
About the event
I am revisiting my scientific roots at my beloved Cambridge University. I arrived to Cambridge as 27 year old and lived there between 2007 - 2012 and it was the life changing time for me and shaped a lot of who I am now.
Now collegues at Cambridge University Psychedelic Society invited me to talk about my work as psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator and share my experience from the Swiss perspective. I am very honoured to talk at my home institution.
Contemporary psychedelic research focuses largely on the psyche and brain—its perceptions, emotions, and cognitive transformations under the influence of these substances. However, this perspective often underestimates the crucial role of the body in these experiences. In contrast to this psyche-centric view, the concept of "psychesomadelics" highlights the profound interplay between soma (the body) and psyche (the mind), recognising that altered states of consciousness are deeply embodied phenomena.
In many traditional…