In this exploratory webinar, author, educator and aspiring therapist Travis Cox will invite participants into the project that he and his colleagues are calling “Ecopsychedelics” which is a portmanteau of the words “ecopsychology” and “psychedelics”. Travis will first introduce the discipline of ecopsychology and then give some background into the particulars of the “ecopsychedelic” project, including some insights he gained from teaching the first ever class on Ecopsychedelics last spring.
During the webinar, Travis will invite a dialogue into what he feels is one of the most important aspects of the psychedelic experience in general, which is certainly central to his personal conception of ecopsychedelics: the implicit or explicit invocation of worldviews. For Travis, this invocation is two-fold: first is the fact that, for many if not most people, the scientific materialist paradigm can come into question during a psychedelic experience; second is the open-question as to whether or not the “psychedelic experience” itself has a worldview.
This collaborative inquiry will eventually lead to a discussion of process thought, especially as it relates to a more “modern” understanding of animism. This workshop is for those who are interested in the intersections of ecopsychology, plant medicines, and ecospirituality.
