David Yaden

The Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, Professor of Psychedelic Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

David Yaden is the Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, Professor of Psychedelic Research at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, US. He is the co-founder of the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics. He is the author of The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives (OUP, 2022).

Written by David Yaden

Stained glass artwork depicting two figures in medieval attire, one seated and sleeping, the other standing, on a blue background.

William James was right about our strange inner experiences

Rather than Freud’s cynicism or Jung’s enthusiasm, we need an inquisitive approach to unusual forms of consciousness

by David Yaden