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As psychedelics enter the mainstream, what have we learnt and what questions remain unanswered?

Live Discussion with Robin Carhart-Harris and Social Evening

“Good science shouldn't pretend to be the final word. It often serves to invite deeper investigation.”

As the psychedelic science matures and potential legalisation on the horizon. What have we genuinely learned over the past decades? How do psychedelics create lasting change? What more can they offer to humanity? What still remains uncertain? And how do we move forward without losing the scientific rigour, humility and curiosity that brought the field this far?

Join us for a fireside chat with Robin Carhart-Harris exploring the next chapter of psychedelics, while reflecting on his work that shaped our understanding of psychedelics including his REBUS model. His forthcoming book, How Psychedelics Work: The Hidden Mind and Our Power to Heal, sets out this thinking in full: mental illness reframed as a state of excessive rigidity, where fixed beliefs and habitual narratives resist change, and psychedelics as a way of loosening those patterns to open space for new perspective and healing. Our conversation will also explore the challenges ahead: balancing therapeutic promise with potential pitfalls, understanding the importance of context and integration, and asking what responsible progress should look like as psychedelics move further into mainstream medicine.

How Psychedelics Work will be published 2027. It is now available for pre-order and has already become a bestseller on Amazon in Medical Experimental Psychology.

You can follow Robin's latest reflections and book updates via his newsletter at www.carhartharrislab.com.

Schedule 

• 18:15:  Arrive & grab a  drink
• 18:30-19:30: Chat and Q&A with Robin Carhart-Harris
• 19:30-20:30: Unstructured Socialising

Ask Your Questions

Every ticket holder will be invited to submit questions in advance, which will be woven throughout the discussion. Whether scientific, philosophical, practical or speculative, your questions will help shape the evening.

Robin Carhart-Harris

Robin Carhart-Harris is the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. He has presented on psychedelic science at the World Economic Forum in Davos, been named one of the World’s Top 31 Leading Medical Scientists by The Times (London), appeared on Time’s 100 Next, and was publicly voted the World’s #1 Researcher in the field of psychedelic science. He has written for WIRED, San Francisco Business Times, and The Guardian, and his work has been covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Netflix, the BBC, ITV, Sky TV, Channel 4, National Geographic, PBS, and CNN.

Your Organiser

Kate is an event coordinator at the Psychedelic Society. Her research background spans clinical sleep studies, altered states of consciousness, and personalised gene therapies. She currently works applying neuroscience to the arts at the neuroaesthetics lab, Kinda Studios. Working with Onaya Science, she explores how rituals, music, and plant medicines support trauma recovery. Kate brings curiosity and care to the ways we feel, connect, and transform (and will usually be found outside).

@katedalbyy 

The Venue

We will be meeting at beautiful , The Sanctuary, &Soul. 

The venue will serving  a variety of drinks available for purchase on the night.

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